-. ist party,

Wall

E’S the ruler of his country.
Recently he assured a cor-
respondent for the New York
Times that there couldn’t be an-
other war because “statesmen
realize fully what a war would
mean. Sometimes the people of
the world as a whole think one
thing, but their leaders, more
aware of realities, know  other-
At the same time this ruler’s
major propaganda organ was
quoting flattering comment from
the New York Times, Herald Tri-
bune, Daily News, and U.S. Sec-
retary .of State Dean Acheson
to prove that “world opinion” is
on his side,

There’s no need to guess fur-
ther, for the facts of the “cold
war’ are making the anSwer ob-
vious. This ruler, who for all
the world shouts like a capitalist
spokesman contemptuously quiet-
ing the fears of the peace-loving
masses, is Tito of Yugoslavia.
The newspaper which could de-
scribe the fascistic Daily News as
a spokesman for “world opinion”
is Borba of Belgrade, organ of
the misnamed Communist Party
of Yugoslavia.

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But let the actions of Tito and
his ruling clique, their statements,
speak for themselves. It will then
be impossible to avoid the con-
clusion that Tito’s Yugoslavia has
degenerated into “an ordinary
-bourgeois republic” and a eee
of the imperialist countries’”—just
as the Communist Information
Bureau warned solemnly one year
ago that it would.

In fact, the Tito clique has
gone a long way in one year.
When, last year, the world first
learned of the sharp criticism of
the Communist Information Bur-
eau of the bourgeois nationalist
errors of the Yugoslav Commun-
Tito, Kardelj, Pijade
and other leaders of that party
hastened to allege that the whole
affair was a “misunderstanding”
due to lack of familiarity with
_ Yugoslav affairs.

They deluged everyone with
protestations of their love and es-
teem for the Soviet Communist
leaders, Stalin and others, whom
they pictured as naively misled
by the other parties constituting
the Communist Information Bur-
eau, although the Bolshevik par-
ty had, in fact, participated in
the condemnation of Tito’s poli-
cies. :

A year later, the mask is off.
Tito publicly, provocatively,
warns that if the Soviet Union
“attacks”, Yugoslavia is ready
for her. ,

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In this fateful year, these are

only a few of the actions of the

_ Tito regime. It has:

@ Jailed thousands of true Yugo-
slav Communists who oppose
Tito’s anti-Soviet policy and
killed others; made even pos-
session of the Cominform state-
ment on Tito ‘a crime; turned
the Communist party into a
repressive police force whose

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MARSHALL TITO
He has picked up Mussolini’s bloodstained mantle

while employing in the secret
police and other government
with a record of active war-
fare against the Soviet Union,
Known as anti-Semites and
agents of Hitler,

@ Used diplomats and others as
intelligence agents Syping on
the democracies of eastern
Europe in order to provide im-
perialist powers with secret da-
ta on defense and other as
pects of the democracies’ econ-
omy.

@ Spread tons of propaganda
among members of Communist

parties in all parts of the world _

in order to create an anti-Sov-
iet sentiment; alleged to have
_documents proving that “capit-
alist - agents” have infiltrated

_ the leadership of many Com-
munist parties, in an attempt tc
create distrust and _ suspicion
within the ranks of these par-
ties. :

That is the record—and only a
part of the record, at that.

Tito’s clique, diverting sus-
picion of its actions by using
Marxist phraseology, makes full,
use of the device long employed
by social democrats in every
country to conceal their betrayal
of the socialist principles to
which they pretend.

Even Hitler used the label “Na-
tional Socialist” and some of the
demands of the working class
to hide the real face of fascism
for a time. :

Is Tito Yugoslavia “Marist”
and “Socialist”? Well, do Marx-
ists state, as Tito did: “We. tell
the peasants that they are the
firmest basis of our state not be-
cause we want to win their votes
but because they are really this
basis”? No, Marxists everywhere

recognize that the working class

must be the main basis of the
people’s democracies and socialist
states. ;

Nor do Marxists advocate, as
did Titoite Diljas, that Yugoslav
trade unions liquidate their inde-
pendent role, give wp meetings
separate from those of the “Peo-

ple’s Front,” which includes land-
lords and landowners in its mem-
bership, and that meetings “be
held together, for the trade union
is also in the Front.”

There is an inexorable law of
renegacy and betrayal which for-
ces the traitor to find his level
at the common denominator of
anti-Soviet slander. The renegade
who begins by saying that he is
realiy the Communist, not the
Communists, and professes pas-
sionate admiration for the Soviet
Union, only to wind up writing

anti-Soviet inventions for the anti- —

Soviet press, is familiar enough
to be a type.

And so Tito, who for months
assured everyone that his Yugo.

slavia was following the Socialist —

path of the Soviet Union. more
faithfully than the people of
Hungary, Bulgaria, Czechoslo-
vakia, Romania and Poland, now
echoes the 30-year-old capitalist
slanders against the Soviet
Union.

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In an interview with the New
York Times’ C. L. Sulzberger last
week, Tito used these hoary anti-
Soviet. slanders to grease the

ways for his admission of the

charge that Yugoslavia is not
proceeding to a socialist agricul-
ture, but is, in fact, the land-
owners’ regime the Bureau
branded it.

Tito said he was encouraging
“cooperative farming’ not the

- Soviet collectives. Like the Bev-

ins, Blumgs and Attlees, he claim-
ed the desire to bring socialism
“in a more free and truly demo-
cratic way” than in the Soviet
Union which, he charged, “simp-
ly crushed an entire class of
people—kulaks.” Tito, on the
other hand, is using “education
and good will,” he said. This
style of pro-wealthy farmer “so-
cialism is now getting Wall
Street money ag subsidies.

It is because Tito Yugoslavia is
anti-Marxist, anti-Soviet Union.
anti-socialist, that he is receiving
loans from Britain, from the U.S
and from the Wall Street-control-

‘giant,

By ROBERT FRIEDMAN

led intermational bank; that he
has received the approval of
President Truman for the pur-
chase of material to build a steel
plant while the ban on exports to
the veal peoples’ democracies
goes on.

Why Tito, for his part, and the
governments and press of the
London - Washington bloc for
theirs, insist so strenuously on
labeling Yugoslavia a Communist
state is something else again.

It is obvious why. Tito must
maintain the fiction that he is a
Communist leader of a socialism-
bound state, although by now the
days of that fiction are numbered.
At home it is his sole ideological]
hold on the masses, who did not
fight Hitler and native fascism
in order that Wall Street should
rule their land.

Abroad, Tito’s efforts to spread
confusion, dissention and anti-
Sovietism in the ranks of the
world peace movement, are part
payment on his debts to his im-
perialist backers. :

The spokesmen for imperialism

have their reasons, too, for con-
tinually dinning in our ears that
“Tito’s still a Communist”, “Tito’s
still a Communist.” They use
Tito’s explanation of his dispute
with the Cominform as-one be-
tween a small, socialist nation
Seeking independence from the
oppressive’
as proof, from within the family
of socialism, of their own charges
of Soviet “imperialism” and “ag-
gression.”
' They use Tito to disorient the
people of the world from the
struggle against the war+making
Atlantic pact and for peace.

They use Tito to send progres-
sives chasing after the will o’ the
wisp of a non-existent “contro-
versy”—the Tito myth of an ideo-
logical struggle between two al-
ternative roads to socialism.

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In all, the millions of words
poured out by Tito and the cap-
italist press—which has never be-
fore so passionately loved a

-“Communist”’—there is a conspi-

cuous failure to discuss the re-
lations between the Soviet Union

and the eastern democracies of

Europe.
Were Tito’s Yugoslavia a_ so-
cialist nation in truth, there

would be no basis for conflict, for

there is no conflict of interests
between socialist nations as there

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Soviet Union -

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_is between capitalist powers fight

ing for markets and territory,
And there is no such conflict
between the Soviet Union and
the governments of Albania,
Czechoslovakia, Bulgaria, RO |
mania, Hungary and Polané.
Trade flourishes among them. —
The Soviet Union renders exten
sive technical aid to these coun
tries. j
Czechoslovakia, for example
had 50 percent of its worker£
jobless “during the crisis of the
thirties, when it could not export
its products to the capitalist
countries, Today, about 70 percent
of the Czech goods exported te
the Soviet Union might otherwis€
be unusable in the crowded mat —
kets of world capitalism.

Whereas wages and_ living

standards in these countries have — Pe

risen steadily, all reports point to
the growing impoverishment of
the Yugoslav masses, while g0V?
ernment bureaucrats of the Tito
regime, army officers, secret POk
ice, landowners and black market
operators live in blatant luxury-
Tito and his Anglo-America®
defenders may inveigh against

the attitude of the Soviet seta oe

toward “small socialist nations” _
like Yugoslavia.

But they dare not mention how
the Soviet Union and the other
democratic neighborg of small Al —
bania have given—given, not lent
— that tiny country millions of
dollars worth of material to helP
in its building of socialism.

Has such help caused Albania —

to lose its freedom? Or is it not
strengthening Albania’s ability t¢-
become truly free? Which rela
tionship do the people of Albania —

‘prefer—the generous aid requil-

ing no return, from the Soviet
Union, or the Tito plot, exposed
and crushed by the vigilant Al
banian Communists, to capture
and annex the tiny nation to YU
goslavia?

Is it any wonder that Sulz

berger can blandly report:

“The western press is now
quoted in Yugoslav
more objective way and minus
prejudicial adjectives, such 4°
‘fascist’. The word ‘im sm
is now commencing to imply
‘Russian’ rather than ‘western’.”

Is it any wonder that the ‘SOV
iet Union has termed the Tito F&
gime a “hostile”? regime, a 8°
ernment unden which “Gestapo
methods of rule prevail”? ;

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VICTORIA, B.C., Oct.
"prisoner, awaiting trial in Victoria for murder, hanged himself

Warden John Millman identified
the victim as Francis Smith of Oak Bay.

Smith was awaiting Assize Court trial for the murder
of his 75 year-old wife, Sarah Alict, who was found strangled
in their Oak Bay home on June 21.

razor slashes in his throat and wrist, and he was treated in

© He was charged with SCs Reh a coroner's jury sub-
‘sequently named him as the slayer of his wife.
Was that Smith showed - signs of mental instability.

The couple came to Oak Bay from England eight years
They received $50 a month social allowance, as Smith

was unable to work, and a $15 pension from Smith's sega

Their rent was aecporied to be m

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