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Because Yugoslavia's Communist Tito was getting out of hand with his insistence on "separate roads to Socialism" (TIME, May 5), Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko last week called in Tito's Moscow ambassador and coldly told him that Russia had decided to "postpone" for five years its entire $285 million program of economic aid (aluminum and hydroelectric plants, fertilizer factories) to Yugoslavia...
...first European blush, Gromyko's action seemed to be a match for Secretary Dulles' famed 1956 abrupt withdrawal of U.S. aid to finance Nasser's Aswan Dam. Actually, the Soviet switch was an entirely different matter. Where the U.S. had only withdrawn an offer (which had gone seven months without being accepted, while Nasser tried to wangle better terms), the Russians were reneging on an agreement signed and sealed...
...sudden, it was the Russians who seemed to be dragging their feet on the road to the summit. The amount of space devoted to the summit in the Russian press has fallen off by 30%, and Russian diplomats no longer display their old volubility on the subject. Gromyko at first insisted on talking separately to the Moscow ambassadors from the U.S.. Britain and France, then refused to hold a joint preparatory conference unless Communist Poland and Czechoslovakia were allowed to sit in too. The air was now being filled with what Russia would be unwilling to discuss-the status...
...Gromyko's point was rather aimed-as his dealings with the Western ambassadors seemed to be-against the unity of the allies. Said Gromyko: "Reckless flights of American bombers extend the fearful shadow of atomic war to the British and the French, to the people of Western Germany, to the peoples of all countries who have been bound hand and foot by military commitments to the U.S. and who have allowed American atomic and rocket bases to be built on their territory. One must be blind not to see in our time the dangerous consequences...
...opportunity to become mature in these matters." From British Labor Party Leader Hugh Gaitskell-"Stop the nuclear tests and start the talks"-to Canada's Tory Prime Minister John Diefenbaker-"My hope is that the free world will discontinue the tests"-many maturer folk were flipflopping too. But Gromyko's charge against SAC was too wild for credibility...