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Like many durable dictators, Yugoslavia's Marshal Tito preserves his one-man rule by the simple expedient of holding down the key jobs himself. He is Secretary-General of the Communist Party, supreme commander of the armed forces, and chief of state. As if that were not enough, Belgrade's complaisant Federal People's Republic unanimously approved a new national constitution last week giving Tito the presidency for life...
Through all the years of Marshal Tito's Communist rule, a special niche has been provided for the small private businessman who was somehow able to supply products and services the state-controlled organization could not match. But a year or so ago, the profits of the barbers, blacksmiths, pastrymakers, cobblers and tailors began to get out of hand; they bought cars and rented summer homes on fashionable lakesides. Last May Tito's regime decided to wipe them out. Taxes on private business were raised sevenfold. A private tailor with one helper paid the same amount...
...grumbling got so loud that even President Tito admitted in a speech that "a real witch hunt was started against the alleged enrichment of artisans, and excessively high taxes were levied against them." He suggested the matter be attended to. Last week the Yugoslav Parliament was preparing to pass a new tax law that "will not discourage the development of crafts." The party's official mouthpiece, Belgrade's Daily Borba, offered a distinctly non-Marxian rationale for the retreat: "The law treats private craftsmen as an additional but significant economic branch which fits well in the system...
...Sino-Soviet split was showing up elsewhere. At the Italian Communist Party meeting in Rome, a trio of Red Chinese visitors sat glowering while Party Boss Palmiro Togliatti-looking almost as chubby as Tito-delivered a four-hour attack on Chinese opposition to Moscow's peaceful-coexistence line. Next day Khrushchev's No. 2 man, Frol Kozlov, produced a bitter condemnation of Red China's "dangerous adventurism" in India...
When the chief of Peking's delegation finally got the floor, a hush came over the hall. He denounced Moscow for not returning "blow for blow" in Cuba, and Tito for having "restored capitalism" in Yugoslavia. "It is extremely grave," he continued, "that at this congress the views of the Chinese Communist Party were attacked directly...