Abstract

Tito's Heresy

The article focuses on the recent developments in Yugoslavia and their influence on Eastern Europe. Great Britain is highly influenced by the excommunication crisis occurring in the national capital, Belgrade. The event therefore should not have come unheralded, especially since it was known that there had been a bitter factional dispute inside the Belgrade regime. The cognoscenti were talking of "an internal crisis of the Bukharin type," and crediting Yugoslavian Prime Minister Marshal Tito with the intention of eliminating all elements not completely subservient to the Soviet Union. France is probably the country where, next to Italy, the Communists stand to lose most from the showdown between Moscow and Belgrade, whatever its eventual outcome, if only because the French communist Party has permitted itself the incredible blunder of publicly becoming involved in a dispute which seems to turn, in one of its aspects, on the subject of peasant proprietorship.