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When Marshal Tito flew into the Crimea to take a brief "vacation" at Russia's First Party Secretary Nikita Khrushchev's sunny Yalta villa, he did not expect to meet so many old comrades. The emphasis of the eight-day talk in Nikita's parlor and in Yalta's woods and hills was on "comradeship" among the European Communist Parties. A thoughtful Tito, as he flew back to Belgrade one day last week, must have been brooding deeply about how comradely an independent Yugoslav Communist could afford to be. It was not difficult to understand...
...Batajnica military airfield near Belgrade early one morning last week occurred one of the strangest and least expected departures in recent political history. Like twins, in grey suits, trench coats and snap-brim hats, Yugoslavia's Marshal Tito and Russia's Communist Party Chief Nikita Khrushchev stepped smartly into a Russian Il-14. The plane took off without even any warm-up of its two engines. The destination was Yalta, the resort on Russia's Black Sea coast where the Allied leaders held their momentous war conference...
...Nikita Khrushchev's favorite pastime is shooting for sport. The boss of the Soviet Communist Party owns a luxurious collection of shotguns and rifles, and he likes to slip quietly out of Moscow to the water meadows of the Ukraine to bag a string of ducks. Last week Nikita Khrushchev traveled all the way to Yugoslavia to indulge his hobby in one of Europe's more exclusive hunting grounds: the vast domain at Belje, once a sporting ground of the Habsburg princes, now a model "socialist farm" and preserve of Marshal Tito and his cronies. In a happy...
Russian Gain. ECE also reported sizable increases in production in the Iron Curtain countries-based on their own somewhat questionable statistics. Soviet Russia's three big agricultural areas this year expect to produce 60 million tons of grain v. 36 million tons before Nikita Khrushchev plowed into the virgin lands of Kazakhstan and Siberia...
...Just" War. As if taking all this very seriously, that pudgy partisan of peace, Nikita Khrushchev, warned at a Rumanian embassy reception in Moscow that if attacked "the Arabs will not stand alone. It will be a just war, and there will be volunteers." (In the Communist sense, volunteers" are apt to show up in division strength.) Obviously, Khrushchev felt that he could hint at belligerency without risk of war. As things stood, the French and British were likely to shoot only if Nasser closed the canal or committed some fresh outrage...