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Last week, resplendently uniformed in sky blue, Yugoslavia's Dictator-President Josip Broz Tito arrived in Paris on a visit of state, and was even more thoroughly watched-this time as an endangered rather than a dangerous individual. A jittery French government could not help remembering that the last visit to France of a Yugoslav head of state, in 1934, had ended in the assassination in Marseille of both Yugoslavia's King Alexander and France's Foreign Minister Louis Barthou, who was riding with...
...great high-wire artists met last week in Belgrade. Clad in gleaming white jodhpurs and close-fitting achkan (three-quarter length jacket) of cinnamon homespun. India's arch-equilibrist Jawaharlal Nehru had come to return a visit paid him last winter by Yugoslavia's Josip Broz Tito, a man even more skilled at walking the tightrope of neutralism. There was no real business to be transacted between them, but at least the two could compare notes and talk about their favorite topic-advantageous coexistence...
...Marshal Josip Broz Tito, the 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...
...Marshal Josip Broz Tito, 63, Communist President of Yugoslavia...
...outcome really hinged on the decision of one man-Josip Broz Tito...