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...foreign aid and trade concessions might really woo Tito away from Communism. A lot of Americans were skeptical, but Kennan persisted. Then, at the famed "neutralist" conference in Belgrade in September 1961, Tito pulled out the rug with a vicious anti-Western speech...
After that, the U.S. Congress decided that Tito was a lost cause. At the urgent behest of the Kennedy Administration, Congress finally approved continued foreign aid to Yugoslavia, but revoked its "favored nation" status in U.S. trade...
Kennan thereafter suffered a deep sense of betrayal-not on Tito's part, but on that of the folks back home. Said he privately: "I feel silenced. We are paralyzed here. I would have fought like a tiger, and many Yugoslavs would have supported us. But we have silenced them...
While his handsome wife Jovanka beamed down from a visitors' box, Tito strode into the hall to the cheers of the crowd and sat gravely through a formal reading of the new charter. Afterward, looking remarkably fit for a man who will be 71 next month, he happily auto graphed copies of the constitution...
...addition to sanctifying Tito's supremacy, the document included other novelties. A new Assembly will be com posed of no fewer than five chambers, each with its own specialty. One will deal with economics, others with education, social, general administrative, and federal matters. For the first time, there will be a Premier and a Vice President, although neither one is designated to succeed Tito in the event of his sudden death. Their powers will be strictly limited. Under the new constitution, the Communist Party remains the "fundamental initiator of political activity...