University of Virginia Library

Dedijer To Address University
On Yalta And Balkans

By Ira Steingold

Internationally acclaimed author
Vladimir Dedijer will speak at the
University Thursday night on "Yalta and
Its Consequences in the Balkans."

He will speak in the South Meeting
Room of Newcomb Hall at 8 p.m.
tonight.

Mr. Dedijer is the author of several
books, his most famous being the official
biography of Tito, which was published in 38
languages. His most recent book entitled "The
Battle Stalin Lost," tells the story of Tito's
conflict with Stalin.

A very independent man, Mr. Dedijer has led
an interesting life. As a pre-World War III
journalist he posed as a poor fisherman in order
to obtain an interview with King Edward VIII
who was vacationing on the Dalmatian Coast.
Although he was editor of "Borba," the official
newspaper of the Communist Party in
Yugoslavia, he at one point defended a critic of
the undemocratic features of communist
Yugoslavia, and was brought to trial.

Mr. Dedijer was dismissed from all
important posts and was denied a professorship
at Belgrade University. Eventually he was
pardoned and became Professor of Modern
History at Belgrade University.

He has served as a visiting professor or
lecturer at several universities including Oxford,
Manchester, Harvard, and Princeton, He is
presently a visiting professor at Brandeis
University.

Several guest lecturers will be speaking at
the University this week in addition to Mr.
Dedijer.

J. Saunders Redding, professor of English at
Cornell University, will discuss "Negro Writing
and the Political Climate Today," tonight at 8
p.m. in 301 Wilson Hall.

Mr. Redding, the recipient of a Rockefeller
and two Guggenheim fellowships, is the author
of several books including an autobiography,
"No Day of Triumph," "They Came in
Chains," "The Negro," and "To Make a Poet
Black."

The School of Architecture Lecture Series
will present Gyorgy Kepes, the Director of the
Center For Advanced Visual Studies, at the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Mr.
Kepes will give an illustrated talk, "Art on a
New Scale," tonight at 8 p.m. in room 153 of
Campbell Hall.

Mr. Kepes is a scholar, painter, and author.
He is the recipient of several architectural
awards.

Leon Mestel, one of the world's leading
authorities on the order and evolution, will
speak on "What Makes the Sun Shine."
—tomorrow at 8 p.m. in Gilmer Hall Auditorium.

Mr. Mestel is a professor of mathematics at
the University of Manchester.

Vladimir Dedijer

Author Of Tito Biography