'June' Cominform expels Yugoslavia; Albanian leaders launch anti-Yugoslav propaganda campaign, cut economic ties, and force Yugoslav advisers to leave; Stalin becomes national hero in Albania.

His biography, "Tito Speaks," was published in 1953, five years after Stalin expelled Yugoslavia from the Soviet bloc.

Cominform faced an embarrassing setback the following June, when the Tito-Stalin split obliged its members to expel Yugoslavia, which remained Communist but adopted a non-aligned position.

On May 17, 1948, the Cominform, successor to the ECCI, had expelled Yugoslavia from the community of Socialist countries and Ibárruri had lent her voice and pen to his censure.

That approach became particularly important during the period after 1948, when Stalin expelled Yugoslavia under Marshal Tito from the Soviet bloc.

But this new-found support was not enough to prevent the overwhelming vote on Wednesday to expel Yugoslavia from the General Assembly.

Stalin expelled Yugoslavia from the Cominform in 1948 in a split that set the Balkan land on a path of independent Communist rule, making it the first country to leave the Soviet bloc.

June 28: The Soviet Union expels Yugoslavia from the Communist Information Bureau (COMINFORM) for the latter's position on the Greek civil war.

When Stalin expelled Yugoslavia from the Soviet bloc in 1948, Mr. Tudjman sided with Tito.

When the Cominform expelled Yugoslavia on June 28, however, Albania made a rapid about-face in its policy toward Yugoslavia.