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...Yugoslavia, Marshal Tito jailed his only real opposition, scholarly Dragolyub Yovanovich, a lone "No" vote in a Communist Government. Yovanovich was charged with being a "spy" for the U.S. Some time ago Tito had said: "Those who persist in hindering the creation of a better future . . . will have to disappear from the face of the earth." Since Tito made this ominous threat a number of "spies" had been executed...
...liberal Serb Milan Grol, Minister for Communications, who had the support of three of the five Serb parties, as well as of the Croats and Slovenes in the Government. But the two pan-Serb parties threatened to quit the Government if Grol became Foreign Minister, and so Premier Yovanovich took the portfolio...
Thus the exponents of Yugoslav unity administered a defeat without winning a victory. But in the months of the growing crisis their voice became stronger. Last April Milan Grol submitted to Premier Yovanovich a memorandum criticizing the Government's failure to: 1) smooth out relations with Russia; 2) bring about a rapprochement between the Partisans and General Draja Mihailovich; 3) bind the Government to a policy of Serbo-Croatian-Slovenian unity in federal democracy. The memorandum was never submitted to the Cabinet...
...Payoff. Two weeks ago, Premier Yovanovich told the Cabinet that the Allies desired an unequivocal statement of policy, that only one statement of policy was possible: a united Yugoslavia, with equal federal rights for Serbs, Croats and Slovenes, based on democratic liberties and a progressive social regime. Up jumped Serb Liberal Grol: "This is what we have wanted all along and what you have prevented all along. If this is to be our new policy, it is exactly you who cannot be in charge...
...Premier Yovanovich resigned...