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...midweek Nehru joined Yugoslavia's Marshal Tito and Egypt's President Nasser at Tito's pleasure dome on the Adriatic island of Brioni. Here, where the ancient galleys and triremes of Rome once anchored, and at a later date Mussolini played, were gathered three unlikely bedfellows. THE MOST IMPORTANT POLITICAL CONFERENCE OF THE POSTWAR WORLD headlined Cairo's Al Ahram. "These three peace men," said the captive Egyptian press, would bring sanity to a mad world, and in this meeting of Europe, Asia and Africa would create a "Third World Force." Tito too basked...
...Jawaharlal Nehru would have none of it. Even before he reached Brioni Nehru began to bill the conference as a casual meeting, arranged only after he learned that by rare coincidence "Nasser also would be traveling in Yugoslavia." And from the moment that Tito, resplendent in a panama white linen suit, white shoes and black pocket handkerchief, greeted him on Brioni's quay, Nehru was clearly determined to let the wind out of the whole affair. At the end of the first five-hour session, with Tito and Nasser standing sheepishly silent, Nehru wearily chided the 120 newsmen...
Problem for a Nurse. On the last day of the Brioni conference the U.S., in an astutely timed move to discourage the spread of neutralism, coldly withdrew its offer to help Egypt finance construction of the billion-dollar Aswan High Dam (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS). Flying off to Cairo with the bruised Nasser, Nehru, the high priest of neutralism, found himself at week's end playing nurse to a new and noisy member of the family. It was doubtful, however, that Nurse Nehru could offer 38-year-old Nasser much in the way of consolation or even advice...
Oranges & Scuffles. After feting them for two days at his modern villa in Brioni, Tito sent the top Russians off on a tour of Croatia and Slovenia. Khrushchev flabbergasted his hosts by cracking bad jokes, swilling quarts of lemonade from a pitcher-sized glass, gnawing on an orange as voraciously as a dog with a bone. When a flat tire halted his car, he playfully challenged 59-year-old Anastas Mikoyan to a wrestling match. Yugoslavs looked on incredulously while Russia's 61-year-old Communist Party boss scuffled with his First Deputy Premier by the roadside. Mikoyan...
...formal conferences broke up, the Russians were invited to Tito's Adriatic island of Brioni to be his guests in his glass-fronted villa overhanging the sea. Tito seemed a man who had things under control. Khrushchev had retreated by offering a concluding toast to the success of negotiations between the Yugoslav and Soviet "states"-no parties mentioned. Tito herded his distinguished guests around with an air of authority. When photographers asked if he could get one group closer together, Tito gestured at the Russian Premier, uttered one brusque word: "Bulganin." Bulganin came closer...