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Milovan Djilas has been rebellious all his life, but he carried things too far when he loudly demanded that his friend and leader, Yugoslav Boss Marshal Tito, liberalize his Communist regime. Tito did not agree with his Vice President and wartime partisan comrade, but nonetheless told him: "Go on writing." It was cruel advice. For his efforts, Djilas was twice arrested, sentenced to nine years in solitary confinement for writing The New Class, the most devastating analysis of Communism yet published. Last year, after serving 3½ years of his term, the fiery Montenegrin was released on condition that...
Questioned about Milovan Djilas, a Yugoslav author recently jailed, Nikejic replied, "I know only what I read in the newspapers...
Obviously Mr. Kennan is convicted of softheadedness when he says he would never play politics with Yugoslav stomachs...
...pragmatical ambassador at Belgrade could find no better weapon for playing cold war politics than Yugoslav stomachs...
...honored at Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum of Art with the first one-man show of a living artist in the museum's history; of a stroke; in South Bend, Ind., where he was resident sculptor at the University of Notre Dame. A devoted Yugoslav patriot, Mestrovic was jailed by Fascists during World War II, exiled himself when the Communists took over...