It is hard to guess how he is going to resolve the poasible
 
conflicts which may arise between the national interests of
 
Jugoslavia and the official objectives of the communist party,
 
of which he is a long time enrolled member. For whatever it
 
may be worth, my own guess is that if he is convinced that there
 
is a clear cut choice between the two, on any issue, his country
 
will come first. Tito has an interest in but apparently little knowledge of a wide range of subjects
 
affecting the future of his country. He is interested in political, economic, ideological
 
and cultural problems, but his ideas on these subjects did not
 
seem to me to be very sophisticated.
 
     I did not get much dependable information about Tito' s
 
personal history. Here are a few of the items that were passed
 
on to me, but for their authenticity I cannot completely vouch:
 
'He was for 20 years a member of the communist party working in
 
and out of Russia. He spent the years from 1929 to 1932 in
 
jail in Zagreb on charges of conspiring against the government.
 
I think the alleged conspiring was simply a normal part of his
 
spreading of communistic propaganda. For a couple of years before
 
the war, he was a commnnist labor organiser and agitator, working
 
mainly up and down the Dalmatian coast where he organized one or
 
two large strikes. He either fought or asked for permission to
 
fight on one Comunist side in the Spanish war, I was unable to make sure which. After the
 
capitulation of the Royal Yugoslav government to the Axis, Tito used the communist secret
machine,