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When Yugoslavia's President Tito entered Sarajevo's magnificent new cultural and sports center last week, the 2,300 delegates to an economic conference cheered wildly and gave him a standing ovation. Then, as he strode to the rostrum beneath portraits of Marx, Engels, Lenin and himself, the throng broke into the war-time song of the Yugoslav partisans, "Comrade Tito, we give you our word, we shall follow...
...will they follow anybody else? Tito, who will be 79 on May 25, is given full credit for making Yugoslavia the most democratic of all the Communist states as well as the one with the highest standard of living. Almost all Yugoslavs still support the system of "self-management" that Tito introduced 21 years ago, rejecting Soviet-style planning and central control in favor of economic decentralization, which makes managers of factories directly responsible to the workers...
Seldom has the compulsion to go to war been better portrayed than in this novel by Yugoslavia's most celebrated warrior-ideologue. Milovan Djilas wrote Under the Colors while serving a prison sentence for criticizing Tito's regime. But the book is not concerned with contemporary events. It re-creates the clash between Serbian and Moslem in Djilas' native Montenegro in the late 19th century. Djilas lost much of his own family in this incessant warfare; he grew up on legends of heroism and endurance...
Through a letter to his lawyers the Black Prince, who claims to be a poor farmer though he owns a 365-room castle and a 5,000-acre estate, blasted the affair as a "fabrication." His men were merely planning demonstrations against the upcoming visit of Yugoslav President Tito, he said, and anyone who insisted otherwise would be sued...
...Tito's trip was originally canceled to show Yugoslav displeasure over Italian statements on Trieste; Italy handed over areas around that city as part of a 1954 mediation but Italian politicians still hedge about renouncing all claims. Mollified by an agreement that Trieste would not be mentioned during his five-day visit to Rome, Turin and the Vatican, Tito rescheduled the trip for last week. Small, polite, curious crowds turned out. The Black Prince, however, was not on hand to meet...