Word: kremlins
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Moscow went all out last week to welcome Comrade Tito, the prodigal son, and for one very good reason. For them, at this moment in history, he was the world's most useful man. These days the Kremlin's Communists have one basic task on their minds: they hope, by pinning responsibility for Communist crimes of the past 20 years on Stalin, to exculpate themselves from a guilt which they unquestionably shared. They do not seem to care how Khrushchev's expose affects foreign Communist leaders who-living under no "reign of terror" in their own countries...
...luncheons and receptions in the most ornate halls of the Grand Kremlin Palace, surrounded by grinning, handshaking Russian bureaucrats and bemedaled officers of the Kremlin guard in gold-braided green uniforms. Tito contrived to look unimpressed. His handsome, dark-skinned wife Jovanka outshone the dowdy official Russian wives with her wardrobe of elegant evening gowns of white silk, black lace over bronze-red, her red stole, gold mesh bag and rubies, and her day suits of pink brocade and lavender silk. At the ballet Tito looked bored...
...between the two countries marching along the path of Marx, Engels and Lenin." No one mentioned the name of Stalin. Afterwards, to the sound of loud speakers blaring Yugoslav folk songs and the cheers of tens of thousands of Russian onlookers, ex-Traitor Tito drove through Moscow to the Kremlin and then to Spiridonovka Palace, official residence of the new Soviet Foreign Minister Dmitry Shepilov. Observers, practiced in reading the temperature of Moscow's organized welcomes, judged this one to be only a degree or two less than that accorded India's Prime Minister Nehru last year...
...Table. But Tito could reflect on how things have changed since his last visit to Moscow ten years ago. What happened then has since been described by Tito's Vice President Edvard Kardelj (who accompanied Tito to Moscow last week). Ten years ago Dictator Stalin threw a Kremlin banquet for Tito, then just recently emerged from Comintern obscurity to the eminence of a partisan hero and boss of Yugoslavia. Tito was clapped on the back by Stalin, who said to him: "What a pity, my dear Walter [Tito's Comintern name]. You are now living and working...
...without question, right and proper that he should have gone there'. . . But it was of the greatest importance that he make no mistake . . . The impression was conveyed to the world that the cold war was over . . . The President gave every evidence of personal trust in the Kremlin leaders and even went so far as to credit the Russians with a desire for peace no less earnest than that of the West . . . Tensions relaxed immediately all over the world, and along with them, efforts to build strength and unity against the Communist threat . . . Neutralists and proCommunists were confirmed and strengthened...