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Relations between the Vatican and Belgrade have been shaky since Marshal Tito rose to power. A recent letter to Pope Pius XII from the Yugoslav Episcopate made them even worse. The letter accused the Tito Government of closing Catholic schools, suppressing all Catholic newspapers and substituting civil marriages for religious ceremonies. Since the war's end. the letter added, 243 Yugoslav priests had been killed, 169 imprisoned...
Same day, Tito announced Dr. Subasich's resignation. Subasich had complained in effect that their seven-month-old coalition had turned into a dictatorship, that the Nov. 11 elections would be a farcical Communist coup. Now Tito bluntly accused him of quitting to provide a "motive for foreign intervention...
...with Dr. Subasich last week went Juraj Sutej, Minister without Portfolio. Since 69-year-old Vice Premier Milan Grol had already quit, the regime was now thoroughly dominated by Tito's men who had swallowed the exile government...
Yugoslavia looked more than ever like a police state. Belgrade street scenes were like cutbacks to old newsreels of the rise of Naziism. Booted feet tramped out their brazen songs. OZNA, the Communist secret police, was supervising the election campaign. Tito's big army showed no inclination to demobilize...
...Tito had a measure of popular support, largely in rural areas and among Yugoslav youth. Unlike an unalloyed police state, the regime not only permitted but deviously encouraged a certain opposition. Milan Grol's critical new weekly, Demokratija, allotted newsprint despite the paper shortage, was a sellout. Said he: "Now I have both the people I want and those I don't want. Every malcontent in Yugoslavia is on my side." The result perhaps explained why Grol was allowed to operate...