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WHEN Russia's NiKITA KHRUSHCHEV stepped off a plane at Belgrade's Zemun Airport and spouted his slavering apology for the 1948 ouster of Yugoslavia from the Cominform, TIME'S editors pulled a quick switch and scheduled Marshal TITO for this week's cover. At hand was Cover Artist Ernest Hamlin Baker's latest portrait of Tito. Prophetically, the portrait shows the great stone face that Tito turned on the Russian delegation as Khrushchev made his abject recital. Bonn Bureau Chief James Bell, who watched the incredible scene on the newly asphalted apron...
...heretic who got away with it, this was a moment to savor. Splendidly adorned-braided cap, sky-blue military blouse with ribbons, red-striped slacks-he drove out to Belgrade's Zemun Airport and waited. Seven years before, Russia's masters had kicked Yugoslavia out of the Cominform, reviled Tito as "traitor," "fascist," "spy and murderer," urged his people to revolt against him, harassed his borders, shut off his country's trade. Dictator Tito, an old hand at intrigue himself, survived it all. Now, unrepentant and unintimidated, master in his own land, Tito sat in his open...
Khrushchev baited his trap with the most abject apology any Communist leader ever made. Tito's ejection from the Cominform was a terrible mistake, said Khrushchev. "We sincerely regret what happened, and resolutely reject the things which occurred, one after the other, during that period." He produced a scapegoat. The trouble, he said, all came because of "the provocative role which was played in the relations between Yugoslavia and the U.S.S.R. by enemies of the people-Beria, Abakumov and others-who have been unmasked." (Beria and Abakumov, tidily removed by execution, are always useful on such occasions...
...Years Since. Tito also took a dictator's precautions. He rounded up and put in prison more than 11,000 persons suspected of favoring the Cominform's policy-where they joined the Split fishermen. For months Tito scuffed a servile shoe outside the Cominform's closed door, angrily brushed off any suggestion of help from the West, and pleaded to be taken back. The Kremlin responded by cutting off Yugoslavia's trade with one satellite after another. In September 1949, it declared Yugoslavia "a foe and an enemy of the Soviet Union," and ended its mutual...
...short, Tito, deviationist, thought he knew better than the Kremlin. There was only one possible answer. A few weeks later, Tito and his Yugoslavs were expelled from the Cominform on the charge of "nationalism" and associated crimes; Yugoslav Communists were ordered to "change the Communist leaders...