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WHEN Russia's NiKITA KHRUSHCHEV stepped off a plane at Belgrade's Zemun Airport and spouted his slavering apology for the 1948 ouster of Yugoslavia from the Cominform, TIME'S editors pulled a quick switch and scheduled Marshal TITO for this week's cover. At hand was Cover Artist Ernest Hamlin Baker's latest portrait of Tito. Prophetically, the portrait shows the great stone face that Tito turned on the Russian delegation as Khrushchev made his abject recital. Bonn Bureau Chief James Bell, who watched the incredible scene on the newly asphalted apron...
...article on Marshal Zhukov was most interesting and informative . . . Zhukov's path is thoroughly paved with the maimed and dying soldiers he found so expendable . . . and I believe we would do well to weigh any friendship that holds life and moral obligation so cheaply...
...reaction took several forms. After ten years of stalling, the Soviet Union finally signed a peace treaty for Austria, agreeing to long-resisted clauses in return for Austrian neutrality. At the same time, with noticeable urgency, the Kremlin arranged a top-level mission to Yugoslavia, a pilgrimage to beg Marshal Tito to take a neutral position...
...counter this activity, the Soviet Union and the seven satellite Communist governments (Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Rumania, Bulgaria, Albania and East Germany) joined in a defense pact, and agreed to a combined military command. The supreme commander: Russia's Marshal Konev, 57, Russia's No. 3 military leader, the man who presided over the trial that ordered Beria shot...
Round Trip to Odessa. Early in 1946 Zhukov disappeared. The grapevine said that he had refused to take orders from Vice Minister of Defense Bulganin (not yet a marshal), and that Stalin had come on the phone and told Zhukov he had better take a rest. Whatever the truth of these rumors, the fact was that Zhukov had grown too big for Stalin's comfort, i.e., too big to be quietly liquidated, and had been sent to the Odessa military district, where he was living quietly-under the watchful eye of Commissar Serov...