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...sense Rubião is killed with kindness. There he is, an average young fellow minding his own business in a little up-country town in Brazil, when all at once a silly old noodle of his acquaintance, a pseudo-philosopher named Quincas Borba, dies and leaves him an immense fortune on the sole condition that he look after a dog, also named Quincas Borba. Rubião exuberantly grabs the money and the dog, goes flying down...
...seat. To succeed him as Assembly President, the members last week unanimously elected Mosa Pijade, 64, a gnomelike little man whose friendly, avuncular air (covering the steely core of a seasoned revolutionist) has earned him the nickname Cica (uncle). He joined the Communist Party in 1920, founded the newspaper Borba, which remains the mouthpiece of Yugoslav Communism today. Most of the years between World Wars I and II he spent in jail, continuing there to plot, teach and organize (Tito was one of his pupils). Mosa Pijade was on Tito's military staff in the struggle against Hitler...
...attacking wives of big shots in the Communist hierarchy for their snobbery and rudeness toward a pretty young actress named Milena Vranjak, who recently married Djilas' friend and fellow Montenegrin, Colonel General Peko Dapcevic (TIME, Jan. 18). But more basic was a series of articles he published in Borba, the official party daily, criticizing the theories and techniques of the Yugoslav party. He attacked bureaucracy, implied that it was "enslaving" the country's productive forces, poked fun at cell meetings and urged that they be opened to non-Communists as well as Communists. "When a revolution has been...
...confident heresies, and it watched with uneasiness his growing support among younger Communists. The old Communists did not like his going to the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II or his friendship with such British Socialists as Nye Bevan, Morgan Phillips and Clement Attiee. When Djilas' wordy barbs in Borba got to the old-school Communists, they demanded a showdown, and Tito gave the order...
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...