The myth of unshakable Communist loyalty got a severe shaking this week in Yugoslavia. Power-hungry Marshal Tito was in serious trouble with Moscow.
The announcement was made by Prague's Communist Rude Pravo, which printed a communique from the Cominform. With Moscow's tough, party purge-master Andrei Zhdanov in charge, the Cominform had recently held a meeting "somewhere in Rumania."
The Cominform communique charged Tito and three of his Communist ministers with the deadly sins of "nationalism" and "Trotzkyism." The offending ministers specifically named were Vice Premier Edvard Kardelj, Minister for Montenegro Milovan Djilas...
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