Word: yugoslavic
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...outspoken man who brought down the personal ire of Joseph Stalin on to the heads of Yugoslav Communists was a slim, sensitive-looking Communist intellectual named Milovan Djilas. He wrote the sharp anti-Soviet newspaper articles which preceded Marshal Tito's dramatic break from the Cominform in 1948. When Djilas' heretical words first broke into print, the Red world gasped. But Marshal Tito stood firmly behind Milovan Djilas. "Old Comrade," said Tito, "we'll stick together...
Promptly at 3 o'clock one afternoon last week, amid the marble columns and bronze grillwork of a onetime bank, the 108 members of the Central Committee of the Yugoslav Communist Party gathered to arraign one of their distinguished members on charges of heresy. Tito himself was in charge. The man in the dock: Comrade Djilas...
Apparently it affected his judgment. For he sprang into print with a series in Borba, the party newspaper. Djilas gave it as his personal opinion that the Yugoslav Communist Party's methods were outmoded. Compulsory "cell" meetings through which leaders exercised guidance over lesser comrades were "sterile." The "churchlike" insistence on dogma had become unnecessary...
When a man is Vice President in Tito's Yugoslavia, a maxim for staying on good terms with the boss is: never, never poll more votes than the President. In the election last November, Milovan Djilas, No. 3 man in the Yugoslav hierarchy and one of its four Vice Presidents, broke the rule...
Marion knows well the value of rigorous training and careful discipline. During the mid-thirties he was Yugoslav Senior Foil Champion four consecutive years, and led the Yugoslav team in the 1936 Olympics at Berlin. With the same aggressive energy that marks his fencing style, he attacked the details of design and earned a Ph.D. in aeronautical engineering at Tome in 1942. Caught by the war, he served a seven month prison sentence for refusing to aid the Axis machine...