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Most of the men who shaped the postwar world are gone-Roosevelt, Churchill, Stalin, De Gaulle. This week, barring a last-minute change in plans, a VIP helicopter will touch down on the south lawn of the White House and out will step a statesman who has earned a place alongside those formidable figures: President Josip Broz Tito of Yugoslavia...
Ever since Tito's break with Stalin in 1948, Yugoslavia's survival as an independent state outside Soviet hegemony has been treated by successive American administrations as a matter of prime U.S. interest. In the talks that Tito will hold this week, he will probably emphasize that while Yugoslavia is in sympathy with Nixon's proclaimed "era of negotiations," it insists that such big-power exchanges must not ignore the interests of the smaller countries...
...which he refused to obey. The police raid had the unintended effect of focusing public attention in the West on a major new work by Medvedev. Among the papers that were seized by the KGB agents was a 1,500-page typescript of the first comprehensive study of the Stalin era ever to come out of the Soviet Union. A copy had already reached the West and will be published in the U.S. in January by Knopf as a 624-page volume titled Let History Judge: The Origin and Consequences of Stalinism...
...decision followed another; in each, Acheson assumed leadership. Economic and military aid were sent, after a strenuous domestic battle, to Greece and Turkey. The Marshall Plan was formulated to revive the prostrate European economy. The North Atlantic Treaty Organization was created to resist Soviet aggression. When Tito broke with Stalin, Acheson offered him aid. When South Korea was invaded by the North, Acheson urged American military assistance. He took major responsibility for establishing the West German Federal Republic and supplying it with arms...
...visited New York in 1924 and decided to settle in Greenwich Village. There this disciple of Russian realism continued to create figures in marble, stone, ceramics and wood that were unabashedly heroic. Before returning to the Soviet Union for good in 1945, Konenkov, winner of both the Lenin and Stalin prizes, sculpted studies of many great men of both nations...