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...probably the trickiest, because of Yugoslavia's own anomalous situation-a thoroughgoing Communist state that broke with Stalin in 1948, has been heavily aided by the West ever since, is now generally subservient to Khrushchev in foreign policy but proclaims itself neutral. To start with, Ambassador Kennan hoped Tito Communists would be more "objective" than Soviet comrades, that with care and cultivation Tito might be induced to practice true neutrality. For four months, says an old Belgrade hand, Kennan "thought his personality and techniques were reshaping Tito's thinking"-a mistake Historian Kennan has spotted in others, including...
...Republican Representative Gerald Ford found "fear and apprehension that the Administration is too prone to negotiate and not firm enough in its attitudes." Says California's Republican Representative Al Bell of his constituents: "They feel strongly about aid to the Iron Curtain countries and the planes sent to Tito. The people are fed up with it." Says Iowa's Republican Senator Bourke Hickenlooper: ''There's a growing feeling that we're putting up a great portion of money and getting kicked around by foreign nations...
...After a six-months delay, the U.S. granted permission for Yugoslavia to buy 500,000 tons of surplus wheat and 30,000 tons of edible oils at cut-rate prices. Marshal Tito, the Communist dictator of hungry Yugoslavia, originally requested twice that amount after Yugoslavian wheat harvests turned out poorly: then Tito proceeded to denounce the U.S. at the Belgrade conference of "neutralist" nations (TIME, Sept. 15). The half-a-loaf grant was made in the hope that Tito, however hostile to the U.S., might still be useful as a Communist leader who can operate independently of Moscow when...
...ambassador was ordered out of Moscow, while the two countries traded accusations of having bugged each other's embassies. It was the first time that two Red nations severed diplomatic relations (not even in 1948, when Stalin had his furious break with Yugoslavia's Marshal Tito, were diplomatic ties ruptured...
State denied that there was any connection between Tito's attack and approval of the deal but offered little positive explanation of the latest gift. The 500,000-ton shipment, worth about $30 million, will be sent to Yugoslavia as a surplus crop under terms of a law that provides for payment in local currency rather than in dollars. Under this law, Tito has already received some $64 million worth of agricultural commodities this year, raising his total haul in U.S. assistance since 1949 beyond the $2 billion mark-more than Belgium, Norway or the Philippines has received...