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- +) NEW YUGOSLAVIA {Continued fram page 4) talks on many subjects and have eood reasun to feel that we came to know him well. Tito looks much younger than his photographs am! much gentler. His head would arrest attention any- where. His eves—his ({riendly face, exude warnith and kindness as well as intelligence and strength. The people love and re-pect him hecause he is ene of them, because hie shared their sufferings. went through the fire with them, and because his genius led their armies te viclory and Lrouzht order out of chavs. All kinds of sinister meanings are being attribuied to the fact that today the Slavic peoples have resolved to strengthen the bonds of love. frienct- ship and re-pect that unite them, consecraled hy rivers of blood shed in this final reckoning with the Nazi- Fascixl menace. Tite carefully ex- plained this in his keynote address al the opening of the All-Slav Con- gress in Belgrade on the 8th of De- cember fast year when he said: “You are meeting here not to dis- cuss or create blocs aimed against other nations. Lut to manifest an inflexible determinativn that peace must be made secure—a just peace such a= is deserved by those individ- ual nations which have made their contribution in the past struggle. We Slavs can best appreciate what free- dom and independence means: those of us who have suffered so greatly under foreign oppression are espe- cially able to respect the freedom and independence of others, There- fore. we at this Congress want once more to stress the fact that the Slavs are not creating any biocs, nor are they making pacts against anybody. They want to be united in order to be a harmonious, progressive force and in order to make their contribution to humanity fer a safer and mote joyful peace—and are united against anyone who may incite to new wars.” There was a genera! election while we were in Yugoslavia. We visited the polls and asked many questions about methods of campaigning, choice of candidales, responsibility of the representatives and govern- ment functionaries to the electorate, and the organization of the National Front which is usually altacked by foreigners on the grounds of being the one and only party in Yugoslavia, and therefore supposedly making democracy impossible. The National Front is not a single party. It is 2 coalilion of 6 political parties that during the war joined forces to drive out the enemy and reorganized the national Jife. They intend to remain a coalition for although the war is over conditions still are those of a nalional emergency. The candidates campaign in their electoral districts. making speeches and having open discussions at polili-é cal meetings in which the people take a very aclive part. Balloting is secrel. A ground pellet is dropped through a hole in the ballot box, There is one box for each candidate. The voter shoves his fist into each box. In this way nobody can see into iContinued on page $9) , ST eR q