Is the Crisis moving towards an Outcome?
Is the Crisis moving towards an Outcome?

Author(s): Desimir Tochitch
Subject(s): Interwar Period (1920 - 1939)
Published by: CEEOL Digital Reproductions / Collections
Keywords: Marshal Tito; Yugoslav Crisis 1971;
Summary/Abstract: Although Yugoslavia has, over the past twenty years, gone through many changes in its domestic policies, and made spectacular about-turns in its foreign policies, far from getting rid of its old problems, it seems rather to have created for itself new and more serious ones. One of the reasons for this is possibly to be found in the personality of President Tito himself, who, although often the initiator of change, has also avoided anything which could alter the system basically, and affect his own position. The latest changes—the constitutional reform finally enacted in June 1971 — indicate, however, that Marshal Tito is perhaps no longer always the decisive factor, as had hitherto been the case—for the last twenty-five years at the head of the country, and for the last thirty at the head of the Party. There was a noticeable difference between the gist of the reform such as it was announced by the president in his Zagreb speech of 21 September 1970,2 and what was contained in the constitutional amendments of 30 June 1971.

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