APOLOGIA FOR THE TYRANT TITO
MARKHAM, REUBEN H.
Apologia for the TYRANT TITO By Reuben H. Markham THE Communist "parliament" set up by Joseph Broz Tito's dictatorship has passed a law providing for the seizure of "all private economic...
...GOOD INTENTIONS AND DISASTROUS RESULTS If FT some well-intentioned Americans support such cruel predaceous tyranny, which crushes common people, destroys character anil suppresses freedom...
...Is there any conscientious member of "the Church of God" who does not believe that there is no name except that of Jesus in which one can be saved...
...Some know *»ry well what they are doing...
...But he disregsrded all agreements and moved unceasingly forwsrd toward converting Yugoelsvia into s Communist State, in the service of Soviet Russia...
...They have entered* the broad high road of Imperial Communistic Totalitarianism before the eyes of the world...
...He emphssixes the even more tragic condition of American "liberals" who frequently find themselves, with the most morsl impulses, propelled towsrds the defense of immoral snd brutal political regimes...
...Of course, I am not saying that all Americans who applaud Tito and his Eastern European comrades in autocracy are being deceived...
...Would any intelligent American who saw Del Vayo get up to speak on Franco have any doubt about what would be said...
...If any one dared hint that Tito was a Communist, following Communist aims, he wss denounced as a Red-baiter and as a merchant of red herrings...
...In the chaos, he strengthened his Communist Organization of underground cells for eventual domination...
...They defied Turkish anil Magyar lords, moved into the hills, built half-hidden churches, grouped themselves in villages where they could help one another in defense, lived in large, selfsufficient households—all that they might he free...
...They don't know what they •»e doing...
...aewed garments fur tbe emerging middle class...
...It curried *» a torrent of propaganda, silenced practically all critics, launched rampaigns against religion and step by step broke down national resistance...
...They don't know...
...He failed, but kept on trying with no deviation...
...TITO AS AN "ALLIED HERO" BlMTAIN applauded...
...In the cities, hundreds of thousands of simple artisans and merchants have created small shops to produce shoes and caps and kettles and soap...
...As Yugoslavia crumbled under Nazi blows, Stalin favored Hitler and to please him expelled the Yugoslav representatives from Moscow...
...He conferred with prominent members of Dr...
...The phrase "red Imgey" echoed through the Isnd snd wa< used to smear earnest, informed Americans who presumed to remind their fellow countrymen that Tito was working to impose a Communist regime upon Yugoslavia...
...opened printing shops and book stores and built small mills or plum preserve factories or established small garages...
...For example, the Churchman has gone out ouf its way to uphold Tito's regime...
...Not even fellow-travelers...
...American "liberals" vied with one another in trying to peituade Americans that Tito resembled Washington at Valley Forge...
...There are certain things that people who are not dishonest or stupid cannot believe...
...Indeed, most of the major acts of Tito siid his comrades have been marked by bravery—and guile...
...Would it not be humiliating for an intelligent man to speculate about such a thing...
...Many Americans cheered...
...They und pleasure in •aying that Tito and Bulgaria's George -blmitroff and Rumania's Ana Pauker are bringing liberation, tranquillity, happiness and better living conditions to Workers and peasants...
...In this article, Markham focuses on the tyrsnny thst hss become the fete of Yugoslsvia...
...Most are neither hypocrites nor liars when they say they approve of Lincoln's ideals and Jefferson's principles...
...As such they worked for the spread and triumph of Communism...
...terror has been relied "necessary stabilisation...
...Tito, lardeli Dgilas, Piade, Hebrang, Zujevitch, Rankovitch, are again carrying the ball for world Communism and US Uommu¦iits have reason to applaud...
...What would you have thought of an American professor who speculated as to how Harry Truman was going to vote last November...
...They think they're helping oppressed...
...He has arrested and •hot more Americans than have the other Russian satellites, has most provocatively restricted the activity of American officials in Yugoslavia, taken the lead in apposing the Roman Catholic Church and used the Mihailovitch trial to incite ill will toward America...
...They •re consciously in the service of World Communism and want to hasten its World victory...
...In j943, at the city of Jaice, he held another conference and took a further step toward imposing his administration upon the state...
...Hut now Communists dominate their land, terror haunU their humble homes, every small, carefully tilled field is in danger of confiscation, and kolhobi...
...The •rerwhelming majority of Americans still believe in free democracy: that is, in the essentials of the Bill of Rights, the Declaration of Independence, and the US Constitution...
...Now with one blow that is all swept away by a little pioup of ruthless autocrat...
...He raised the red flag in many places...
...DEMOCRATIC RELIEFS AND TOTALITARIAN ACTS BuT most Americans are not Communists...
...T.sola Dragoichcva of Bulgaria who is one nf the crudest despots of all the centuries, bringing sorrow, enslavement and death to I boils rods of com men men ami » omi-n...
...THE IREARING OF ALLIED RESISTANCE HlS Party alone conducted the "Front," took over the army, ran the police, managed the People's Courts...
...Aad they are to be congratulated on the bold action of their Yugoslav comrades...
...A Communist ii no mystery: So one in llm ivorld is so highly and extensively self-advertised...
...These misguided editors art typical of many well-intentioned Americans, who aid the rnrmin of <i»morra,-v The Way of Apologists RkUBEN H. MARKHAM has been a student of Balkan hiatory and politics since he first visited Southeast Europe in ltlZ...
...Tito became one of the foreimtst Allied heroes...
...This article, then, valuable for its informative analysis of the Yugoslavian situation, is of even greater value as a challenge to those well-intentioned American liberals, who have been lured down the dark alleys of totalitarianism...
...When Hitler attacked Russia, Tito with his comrades sprang into action against the Germans and set up little Soviets in Montenegro and Serbia...
...He made an agreement to work with the old bourgeois groups...
...they have wild small stocks of goods...
...Could any one who has heard the master dictate a message have any doubt about what the dictaphone will say...
...stitched together picturesque rawlule stitched together picturesque rawhide moccasins...
...Falsehood is a major instrument of all conspirators...
...Tito, being wise Communist conspirator, rejoiced in America's selfdeception and promoted it...
...Vladko Marhek's Peasant Party...
...It said Tito embodied •r personified the people...
...Nominally "Democrats, they enlist themselves ss friends of v dictatorships...
...The caae of Tito is in point...
...First, he followed Stalin in cooperating with Hitler...
...He most insistently demanded help from the USA, most insolently treated the givers aad most ruthlessly used the gifts for the strengthening of Communism...
...Tito is worthily fulfilling the mission Which Moscow has entrusted to him...
...denial of all civil liberties has been explained metsphysicslly as due to the needs of s "transitory** state...
...And some of the Americans who say that they are sinewe democrats.* It is out of the goodMan of their heart that they repeat jmch deplorable falsehoods...
...Apologia for the TYRANT TITO By Reuben H. Markham THE Communist "parliament" set up by Joseph Broz Tito's dictatorship has passed a law providing for the seizure of "all private economic enterprises, public utilities and industries" in Yugoslavia...
...Day after day, he declared that Iim organization was democratic, not Communistic, and that he had no intention of turning Yugoslavia into a Communist state...
...Even when in power the Party remained a conspiracy...
...Here, murder of political opposition has been described to Americans ss "denasihVatioii...
...He invited a .lumber of former Serbian, Croation snd Slovene politicians to return from London...
...Or how a sincere Jesuit would interpret the passage about St...
...He formed the National Liberation Front, placed the Yugoslav flag beside the red flag, put nice old codgers in the front ranks of his committees, inveigled in a few priests and bourgeois figureheads and proclaimed himself as a George Washington...
...At that time Tit# and his comrades denounced Great Britain and actively worked for the disintgeration of the Yugoslav army and the Yugoslav state...
...However, some of these food people have warmly supported Tito and the other Eastern European dictators...
...They are moving toward the goal of world Soviet dictatorship with drums beating and -rumpets blaring...
...They are as the roll of a dictaphone, to which the master has spoken...
...Their emotions, words, conduct ure alt prescribed...
...They are serving tha Communists as suckers, they are being taken for a ride...
...In 1942, he held a conference at the Bosnian city of Bihac and set up a tentative state administration...
...However, he did adopt different methods...
...One can foretell practically every Communist thought and action...
...The Party suppressed the opposition press, took complete chnrye of the radio, brake up most opposition meetings of every kind, dominated all educational inttitutions, put its favorites on confiscated farms anl into seized factories...
...Or any true Catholic priest who does not work for the Church Universal...
...He tried to draw in the gullible...
...ran little milk shops...
...This wholesale confiscation is, of course, joyful news for American Communists...
...He was willing to sign or promise almost anything to gain hit ends and to deceive Americans...
...Tito and his comrades have discarded their last mask—-or almost tho last...
...Who now can be so blind or deaf as not to understand...
...Then after having deprived the nation of its right to speak, to write, to organize, to obtain justice, to seek truth at school, or preserve the home as a sanctuary of personal security, the Communist Party now deprives the nation of every source of economic independence...
...that tha recipient of *¦* mite goes ottt and buys s hilly to ¦j* the poor oveY the head...
...Bat most American professors, preachers, teachers, students, editors who approve and applaud the Rastern European Communist despots •re deluded...
...And or is that Josip Broz Tito and his Communist comrades are Lincolnian Republicans or Jeffersonian Democrats...
...which convert free men and women into unwilling members of Communist bossed brigades, stare them in the face...
...They are Communists and have long been Communists...
...Tito and his fanatical comrades have taken a leading place in the global offensive of Imperial Communism and should receive the high acclaim of their American comrades...
...He accepted former bourgeois ministers in his cabinet...
...Proceeding step by step, though with great rapodity, Tito and a very small Communist minority have almost completed the subjugation of their countrymen, Hundreds of years the Serb anil Croatian peasants struggled to obtain and preserve little patches of land all their own...
...It called itself the people...
...OUT now they have no excuse for not ¦•owing...
...Tito was extremely well trained in its use...
...He reached an accord regarding cooperation with King Peter...
...This means, in plain words, that a small group of bold adventurers, imposed upon Yugoslavia by outside help, have taken the aaxt to the last step towsrd dispossessing a nation...
...He lured the honorable suckers...
...Tito camouflaged both these conferences and presented his movement as a National Liberation Front...
...It confiscated most of the major businesses, seized a large part of the factories, laid its hands on the mines —all in the name of the people...
...He used the war, from thj first day, as a channel for the establishing of Communism...
...Men and women by (heir toil and thrift, working long hours, built places of business, erected modest houses, earned respect and a place in a free community...
...They become apologists for systems bssed on, force, blood, snd human suffering...
...He was out to further Communism...
...This was a brave act...
...The seizure amounts to practical confiscation, since eventual payment is to be made in the bonds of a state that for more than a year has been able to meet its obligations only as a result of vast property confiscation and extensive UNRRA help...
...His Party became the state and ruled without giving a public accounting for its actions...
...Peter and the keys...
...Is there any intelligent, informed American who does not know how a genuine "hard-shelled" Baptist would interpret New Testament verses about baptism...
...He hat long and furiously fought to annex territory inhabited by Italians and to bring the upper Adriatic into Moscow's Military sphere...
...The last step will be the seizure ml >ll neasant lands...
...They feel as a widow *•» gives her mite to help the poor...
...Would honest, intelligent people expect Norman Thomas to carry on a crusade for the National Association of Manufacturers...
...With the same undeviating determination, a genuine Communist works for World Communism...
...They even go out of their way to help the Moscow-led, Russia-trained Balkan autocrats...
...And I he General Federation Clubwoman has Civeil a whole page to honoring Mrs...
...THE TITO-HITLER-STALIN ALLIANCE TlTO'S course from the day Hitler attacked Serbia has been unswerving...
...By that act he proclaimed his unmistakable determination to make the Communist i'arty master of Yugoslavia...
...As a foreign correspondent of the Christian Science Monitor, he was recently expelled by the Russians from sll sress under their control...
...But he moved straight ahead to establish t'ommunism...
...This means that the small Communist Party has placed its hands upon practically all the immovable wealth of the land, except the small peasant farms...
...They were and are missionaries of a World Soviet, of a global USSR...
Vol. 30 • January 1947 • No. 3
