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At least twenty-five people have been arrested in a number of Yugoslav towns in the last few weeks for "Cominformist' activities -they include arrests in Belgrade (the capital), Croatia and Montenegro.
The charge of 'cominformism' means - in the mouths of the Yugoslay bureaucracy - support for closer ties to the Soviet Union; after Stalin's denunciation of Tito and the Yugoslav Communist Party leadership in 1948 the Cominform (successor to the Third International, dissolved in 1943) became mainly a vehicle for slander and witch-hunting against "Titoists' by the Moscow Stalinists and their supporters.
According to semi-official sources in Belgrade at least eight people will shortly be tried in secret - though the verdicts and sentences will be made public. One of the main figures of this group will very probably be Dusan Brich. former vice-president of the Croatian Republic, whose arrest, along with seven other members of a sedret network, was announced in August this year.
Police investigations to track down political opponents of the regime are continuing. At the end of October, during a tour of Serbia, Tito declared publicly that he would stop at nothing to neutralise the opposition, made up of a handful of cominformists, liberals and nationalists.
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