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...suede jacket, Djilas said he was being virtually starved out of existence. He was asked what he thought the regime wanted of him. Said Djilas: "They want me to just admit that I was wrong and ask forgiveness." Would he do this? "No, I will not," replied Djilas, his Montenegrin eyes flashing...
Most sensational of the fires Djilas built was a bitter, spicy article 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...
Popovich was a hamhanded, 6 ft. 3 in. Montenegrin hillbilly who had quit his medical studies in Belgrade to fight with the Reds in the Spanish Civil War. In 1938, in Paris, he met the new secretary of the Yugoslav Communist Party, one Tito, who took a liking to the big Montenegrin. In Tito's guerrilla war against the Nazis, Popovich rose to general. He also met Vjera, and in 1946 he married...
Milovan Djilas, Minister Without Portfolio, is 38, a Montenegrin from Kolasin. His wife, Mitra-Mitrovic, is a Communist intellectual and a minister in the cabinet of the Serbian Republic. Djilas, a graduate from Belgrade University's faculty of law, is co-editor of the Communist daily, Borba. Today one of his functions is to direct "agitprop," the psychological warfare branch of the Yugoslav government. A forceful, brilliant writer and speaker, Djilas, with his shock of black hair and lively eyes, is a more attractive personality than the other two members of the triumvirate...
...breathed in the spirit of freedom along with Gary's stench and soot. In Serbia, Nastich worked against Tito's Communists and was brought to trial despite his position in the Orthodox Church, which the Communists cuddle. Here is part of his interrogation by three half-literate Montenegrin judges...