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X.A.5.May 526 was explained to the Americans as @ move towards separation of Church and State - something Americans were bound to haile Soon thereafter, late in April the corollary move came 3: ali public subsidies to Church Schools or religious education were removed under the pretext that the Chur hes were still hostile to the regime, It was explained officially that this should not mean the banning of religious education 3 it only meant that hence=forth the Church schools would have to be kept up by the Churches themselvese In reality this move means the end of all feligious educatiob, since in a Communist economy like the one of Yugosslavia no one has enough funds or moneys to help the Churches and that consequently the impoverished Churches will have to give up religious educational institutions = including the theological faculties at the universities - with the beginning of the next scholar year, Thus in the subtle way the policies of religious persecution are continued, but in a form in which the Yugoslavs hope that the Americans would fail to grasp the real sense of these movese In the economic field on the other hand, there are increasing indications that an opposition of trends is opposing the practical politicians with the Communist theoristse The jatter are led by Boris Kidric and Djilas, while the former are influenced by the thinking of Popovic and Vukmanoviece 1t is clear today in every move, that these two tendencies are fighting for supremacy, with no decisive advantage to any one side at the present tine. This also makes for the very great lack of Clarity in the economic policy of the countrys 4 First it is interesting to note, that the theorists are again stressing the idea of class struggle, an idea which was . almost forgotten in the past years In recent publications and in the speaches of party leaders, class struggle was revived under the pretext, that evenCommunist bureaucrats are slowly veering to bourgeois thought. And it is interesting to note, that in -this case too, the most vitriolic attacks of the theorist group are showing up by devious means, that the true enemy is inside . the regimee In the same sense two economic steps must be put 8 first of all the continuation of crushing taxes on the individual farmers, despite definite promises to the contrary. It is a fact that especially in the more remote rural arcasy farmers are still taxed beyond their income and hence put out of bussiness and forced into collectives. Another step in the same sense, is the new system of exchanging lands. Individual famers in rich parts of the country are forced to exchange their lands for an
