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...strode into the hall amid frenetic cheers from 1,642 delegates to the third Congress of the Yugoslav People's Front. While his followers stamped and cried "Tito, Tito!", he mounted the platform and put on his reading glasses. Then, as virulent as ever, he shouted defiance at Joseph Stalin's Cominform. They were trying to foment civil war in Yugoslavia, he cried. They were accusing him of doing business with the Western powers. Cocky Tito pleaded guilty to that charge. "Are we going to trade-that is, buy everything we need and sell everything...
...link between Bulgaria and Albania (both loyal to Stalin), and provide a base from which well-organized Macedonian terrorists would try to foment rebellion within Tito's Yugoslavia. Last month the Communist Macedonian Peoples' Liberation front called for a "struggle to free the Macedonian people from Yugoslav and Greek domination." The Cominform's long-range goal was common knowledge, even in Belgrade: dismemberment of Yugoslavia into "sovereign" republics which would become part of a larger Balkan federation, probably headed by Bulgaria's Georgi Dimitrov...
...that this did not in any way imply friendship for "all those warmongers in capitalist countries . . ." One of his listeners was reminded that in the very hall in which Tito stood (a former country club for royal guardsmen), gay officers and their girls used to do the kolo, a Yugoslav folk dance in which the dancer first takes two steps to the left and one to the right, then two steps to the right and one to the left. Tito himself was twisting his way through a difficult kolo between Eastern and Western enemies. "Well, what now?" he concluded after...
...Titoism is a consequence not of Communist weakness but of Communist strength. Before the war, few national Communist parties questioned Russia's leadership. But when the Reds actually conquered power, or came close to it, in half a dozen European countries, personal ambition and the patriotism of a Yugoslav or a Bulgar or a Frenchman, even though Communist, was apt to be stronger than loyalty to Moscow...
...Settlement of the Yugoslav-Albanian conflict...