Katharine Gregorio - The Double Life of Katharine Clark: The Untold Story of the Fearless Journalist Who Risked Her Life for Truth and Justice

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Copyright 2022 by Katharine Gregorio

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Gregorio, Katharine, author.

Title: The double life of Katharine Clark : The untold story of the fearless journalist who risked her life for truth and justice /
Katharine Gregorio.

Description: Naperville : Sourcebooks, [2022] | Includes bibliographical references and index.

Identifiers: LCCN 2021052674

Subjects: LCSH: Clark, Katharine (Journalist) | Clark, Katharine (Journalist)--Friends and associates. | Djilas, Milovan, 1911-1995. | Foreign correspondents--United States--Biography. | Yugoslavia--Press coverage--United States. | Communism--Yugoslavia--Press coverage. | Europe, Eastern--Press coverage--United States.

Classification: LCC PN4874.C597255 G74 2022 | DDC 070.092 [B]--dc23

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2021052674

PRIMARY

Katharine Clark: correspondent for International News Service (INS), NBC, and the Washington Post and then a researcher at Readers Digest

Edgar Clark (Ed): correspondent for Time-Life, husband of Katharine Clark

Milovan Djilas: former vice president of Yugoslavia; author of The New Class, Land Without Justice, and Conversations with Stalin

tefanija Djilas (Steffie): wife of Milovan Djilas

Aleksa Djilas: son of Milovan and Steffie Djilas

SECONDARY

Politicians

Aneurin Bevan (Nye): leader of the British Labour Partys left wing

Vladimir Dedijer: Titos biographer, Central Committee member of League of Communists of Yugoslavia

Edvard Kardelj: vice president of Yugoslavia

Morgan Phillips: secretary of the British Labour Party

Josip Broz Tito: president of Yugoslavia

Publishers

William (Bill) Jovanovich: president of Harcourt, Brace, and World, which became Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich. Published Land Without Justice and Conversations with Stalin, among many others

Felix Morrow: New York publisher, University Books. Served as Milovans agent for Land Without Justice

Frederick Praeger: New York publisher, Frederick A. Praeger. Published The New Class

Newsmen

Stella Alexander: writer and friend of Steffie Djilas

James Bell: bureau chief in Bonn, Germany, Time-Life

Stojan Bralovic: correspondent in Belgrade, United Press International

Al Friendly: managing editor, Washington Post, and Eds classmate at Amherst

Milton Kaplan: features editor in New York, INS

Joseph Kingsbury-Smith: chief of correspondents, INS

Paul Underwood: New York Times correspondent in Eastern Europe and friend of the Clarks

Like many of us, I grew up hearing family stories, but it wasnt until I was an adult that I discovered my great-aunt Katharine Clark had a secret. An award-winning foreign correspondent who overcame personal obstacles and social expectation to pioneer a career in a mans profession, Katharine provided essential eyewitness reports of postwar Europe and life behind the Iron Curtain to the American public at the height of the Cold War. As I investigated her life, after spotting a plaque for a special collection with Katharines and my great-uncle Eds name in the basement of Georgetown Universitys library in 2003, I discovered one of the most unusual adventure stories of the Cold War, one that has gone untold until now.

While posted in Belgrade in the mid-1950s, Katharine befriended a man who by many definitions appeared to be her enemy. But she saw something in Milovan Djilas, a high-ranking Communist leader who dared to question the ideology he helped establish, that made her want to work with him. It became the assignment of her lifetaking her on a journey from amanuensis and editor to friend and advocate. Along the way she ferried his ideas to the West: pitching articles, pigeoning mail, and smuggling manuscripts out of Belgrade. The papers she helped shepherd included Land Without Justice, Milovans autobiography of his youth, and The New Class, his first political book, which carried a powerful analysis of the Communist system. Published in August 1957, The New Class blasted the Cold War world order with a criticism of Communism from an unimpeachable source, making it an instant bestseller in the West and automatically banned in Communist countries. It eventually sold over three million copies across translations into more than sixty languages.

The events in the pages that follow are remarkable as much for their unpredictability as for the fact that they really occurred. Anything between quotation marks comes from diaries, cables, correspondence, newspaper and magazine articles, or other documents as written.

This story takes place primarily in Yugoslavia, a country that no longer exists but that, from 1918 to 1992, comprised landmass now recognized as the countries of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Kosovo, Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia, and Slovenia. Due to the nature of the job of a correspondent and the fact that important events were taking place in the region outside of Yugoslavia, there is travel to neighboring countriesAustria, Bulgaria, Germany, Hungary, and Poland. It is in this movement where we see two very different worldsEast and West, Communist and democraticexhibiting the divide Winston Churchill described in his speech at Westminster College in Fulton, Missouri, on March 5, 1946: From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, an iron curtain has descended across the Continent. Behind that line lie all the capitals of the ancient states of Central and Eastern Europe. Warsaw, Berlin, Prague, Vienna, Budapest, Belgrade, Bucharest and Sofia, all these famous cities and the populations around them lie in what I must call the Soviet sphere, and all are subject in one form or another, not only to Soviet influence but to a very high and, in many cases, increasing measure of control from Moscow.