YUGOSLAVIA: Human Weaknesses

Nobody can say that Marshal Josip Broz, known these days as Tito, President and dictator of Yugoslavia, does not hold elections. Last week Tito held elections. The country's 10 million-odd voters swarmed to 25,000 polling places and elected 282 parliamentary deputies. For 265 of the parliamentary posts there was only one candidate. Tito himself was unopposed.

All candidates, even the opposition, had previously passed a stern screening for suitability by the government. Among reasons given for refusing certain candidates permission to run: trying to win votes from people who are "dissatisfied with this thing and that"; receiving support from "elements...

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