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...Kremlin leaders decided to give way before the criticism in the hope of channeling it. If a certain amount of nationalism had to be allowed, let it be granted in measured amounts, so long as Moscow kept fundamental control with its Red army. In this game Yugoslavia's Marshal Tito would be useful. He had made himself something of a hero by breaking loose from Moscow, had even won large-scale aid from the West, but he was still a Communist, and his Yugoslavia was still as monolithically Communist as any Marxist-Leninist could...
This time Gomulka maneuvered with practiced adroitness to insure his own survival and that of Poland's newly proclaimed sovereignty. His supporters encouraged Polish crowds to give full vent to their exuberance at Gomulka's bold expulsion of Soviet Marshal Rokossovsky from the Politburo and Gomulka's personal defiances of Nikita Khrushchev (TIME...
...Bibles ("there was nothing sad about their religion"). The youngsters played tag on the barn roof and dared one another to lean over the edge, fished lazily for catfish in Mud Creek and the Smoky Hill River, fanned imaginary six-shooters in the style of Abilene's old Marshal Wild Bill Hickok, who had journeyed away to his death in Deadwood not 30 years before. One October evening after school Ike nobly bore the honor of Abilene's South Side through a classic two-hour fistfight against Wesley Merrifield, champion of the more prosperous North Side. The fight...
...Party. They had two important items on their agenda. The first was to reinstate in the party hierarchy Wladyslaw Gomulka, 51, onetime party leader who, because he had refused to castigate Tito, had been disgraced and imprisoned by Stalin. The second item was more audacious: a motion to expel Marshal Konstantin Rokossovsky, famed Polish-born Soviet soldier who had acted as Stalin's (and Khrushchev's) proconsul in Poland since...
While all these down-the-line explanations were reassuring to Yugoslav Communists, they also performed another function. Cordially leaked to newsmen, they established Marshal Tito firmly in his role of rugged independent. Coming at a moment when the U.S. was deciding what further aid should be given to Tito, they seemed just a little too neatly tailored, as if designed for Western consumption. The world was still waiting for a full account of the strange meeting from Tito himself...