Nikola Tesla FBI Files - Page 213

že PLAIN nism; they wanted quick action by the democrats. And he had the courage to tell this to Tito. Although he was foreign minister, be was arrested, I was with Kosanovich in his room in Belgrade's Hotel Majestic when Mrs. Subasich telephoned and asked for immediate help. Her husband was arrested and ill. Kosanovich tried to reassure her. He telephoned Lt. General Rankovich, OZNA's chief trigger-man. The Communist hangman answered coldly that nothing would happen to the foreign minister. Precautions were merely being taken to defend him from any attempt of the "Westem reactionaries" upon his life. 10 We had just been reading Dante there in the hotel room-the part where Count Ugolino hungrily devours the brain of Archbishop Ruggieri, describ ing the merciless end of all traitors. The blood and turmoil of ancient fratricidal war rose before us: it seemed very near to our own Yugoslav tragedy. Only a little later Kosanovich entered the new People's Front against the will of the Independent Democratic Party, of which he was Secretary-General. His party issued a clandestine communiqué describing his defection. Soon after that the chairman of the party, Dr. Dochkovich, was terribly beaten for three hours by a Communist youth mob. He was lying in a hospital the same night that Kosanovich was flying to the LonTALK don conference of the Big Four, scompanying the Communist Kardelj as a "liberal and democrat." Before he left, Kosanovich had published an article in the Communist official organ, Borbe, in which he attacked Subasich and the leadership of the party with whom he had worked closely for twenty years. The Communists wanted a proof of "betrayal." And the price was paid. From London, Kosanovich went to the Paris Peace Conference, and from there to Washington-to attack American democracy, which he had formerly praised. I CANNOT BELIEVE Kosanovich is a happy man, though he has attained his ambition. Those who once opposed fascism and are now serving communism have lost all faith in themselves and in mankind. There are no more miserable people than the intelligentsia who know better-but who have been afraid to resist in the last battle for man's liberty. Kosanovich once asked for a synthesis between political and economic democmacy for the good of the people, and he is now defending the complete subjugation-economic, political and moral of Yugoslavia to the Communists. Kosanovich once wanted Yugoslavia to be free of the influence of any big power, and he is now ambassador of a puppet state in Stalin's empire. THE SOLUTION FOR PALESTINE A comprehensive and authoritative discussion of the Hoover Plan (pages 32-33) and of the Lowdermilk Plan (Palestine-- Land of Promise), offering an engineering rather than a political solution for the crisis in the Near East, will be presented in the next issue of PLAIN TALK. 213