A Message to Tito

...United States: Britain: Cass Canfield Norman Angell Leo Cherne T. S. Eliot Senator Joseph S. Clark Jr...

...Djilas was arrested immediately upon publication of the article and sentenced to three years at hard labor on December 12...

...A Message to Tito The undersigned political and cultural figures cabled the following message to Yugoslav President Tito this week in protest against the imprisonment of Milovan Djilas for his New Leader article of November 19, "The Storm in Eastern Europe...

...Djilas's fate will be a test of the sincerity of your professions of liberalization and of your repudiation of tyranny...

...We urge you to free Djilas at once and to permit the people of Yugoslavia to hear and judge his views...

...President Josip Broz Tito Belgrade, Yugoslavia The arrest and imprisonment of Milovan Djilas for his advocacy of democratic freedoms in Eastern Europe is a grave violation of the principles of intellectual freedom...

...At a time when the Polish and Hungarian peoples are rising against oppression and totalitarianism, free men everywhere cannot but be shocked at your silencing of Djilas's voice...

...Imprisonment of Djilas hardly accords with your government's denunciations of Stalinism and must act as a continuing indictment of your regime, which you offer as a model to the countries of Eastern Europe...

...Malcolm Muggeridge Senator Paul H. Douglas France: Harry D. Gideonse Raymond Aron Sidney Hook Albert Camus Senator Hubert H. Humphrey Andre Philip Elia Kazan Germany: Alfred A. Knopf Max Brauer S. M. Levitas Karl Jaspers Archibald MacLeish India: Lewis Mumford Suddhin Datta Senator Richard L. Neuberger Asoka Mehta Reinhold Niebuhr M. R. Masani J. Robert Oppenheimer Jayaprakash Narayan Walter P. Reuther B. R. Shenoy George N. Shuster Israel: Senator Margaret Chase Smith Moshe Sharett Norman Thomas Italy: Diana Trilling Giancarlo Matteotti Bertram D. Wolfe Ignazio Silone Japan: Taiko Hirabayashi Taku Komai Takeo Naoi Kenzo Takayanagi Spain: Pablo Casals...