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...their new stance is purely tactical, aimed at encouraging other European lands, particularly West Germany, to take a neutral position beside Austria. But encouraging neutrality is a substantial retreat from the previous Soviet tactic of swallowing up and controlling satellites. As last week's pilgrimage to Belgrade demonstrated. Marshal Tito's current brand of "neutrality" is deplored by the Soviet Union. The prevailing view in high U.S. circles is that the Soviet leaders were forced to change because their previous policies stopped working...
...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...
Political Career: "Judas Tito and his abettors have transformed Yugoslavia into a Gestapo prison. The whole of progressive mankind looks with loathing upon those despised traitors" (Marshal Bulganin). "Spies and provocateurs" (Foreign Minister Molotov). "The fascist Tito's clique is a gang of British-American hired spies and murderers ... a despicable band of traitors and betrayers of their motherland" (Nikita Khrushchev). "The workers have long since discerned the vile and repulsive snout of the Belgrade deserter, hireling, spy and murderer, bankrupt fascist traitor." (Literary Gazette...
Political Philosophy: "Wild rape and terrorizing . . . unabashed trading away of blood" (Marshal Voroshilov). "Oppression and exploitation . . . adventurisms, leftist ravings. vile maneuvers . . ." (Cominform Journal...
Personality: "Bloody executioner, trusted slave" (Marshal Sokolovsky). "He is a babbling Belgrade parrot ... a bad actor. Imitating that hypocrite and poseur Churchill, Tito wanted to be a hunter, writer and chess player, but like Churchill he is a bad shot, a still worse writer, and at chess he is beaten even by the lowbrow Pijade . . . Greedy and insatiable as Goering." (Literary Gazette...