YUGOSLAVIA: Tito, in Toto

Two touring U.S. Congressmen stopped off at Belgrade for a chat with chesty Marshal Josip Broz—Tito, Yugoslavia's Kremlin-backed strong man. Was it true, asked Republicans Karl Mundt and Frances Bolton, that Dr. Ivan Subasich had quit his job? Why yes, said the Marshal, adding that he hoped he could talk the handsome Foreign Minister out of leaving.

Same day, Tito announced Dr. Subasich's resignation. Subasich had complained in effect that their seven-month-old coalition had turned into a dictatorship, that the Nov. 11 elections would be a farcical Communist coup. Now Tito bluntly accused him of quitting to provide a "motive for...

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