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...Yugoslavia's dissident Communist Dictator and his blanket defense of Soviet nuclear testing, President Kennedy vowed that the U.S. would no longer give aid to nations that profess neutralism while supporting Communism. As a first step in implementing that policy, the State Department pointedly held up approval of Tito's request for 500,000 tons of surplus U.S. wheat. Tito reacted in character: he made a bitterly anti-U.S. speech, and in time-tried Communist dialectic, somehow managed to claim that the U.S. was interfering with Yugoslavia's affairs by withholding the wheat. For Tito, such...
...could be: hardly had the Administration announced that it was taking a new, hard look at L.S. aid to Yugoslavia's Communist Dictator Tito than, last week, it confirmed that Tito would receive, as scheduled, a U.S.-made atomic energy reactor. Also planned: U.S. training for the Yugoslav scientists who would operate...
...signed an agreement to supply the uranium fuel. The deal made last week's headlines only after Texas' Republican Senator John Tower heard of it and protested. It was, indeed, hard to see why the U.S. should be handing over a reactor and fissionable material to Communist Tito, who has done nothing for the U.S. recently except heap on his neutralist criticism...
Believing themselves entitled to a voice in Communism's world policy, the Chinese defended Poland's right to follow its own "road to socialism," urged quick suppression of the Hungarian revolt, refused to make peace with Tito. Peking fumed when Khrushchev, in 1958, suggested a summit meeting without inviting the Red Chinese. Peking's much-publicized opposition to Khrushchev's "peaceful coexistence" line has several facets. At home, this almost middle-class slogan threatens to dampen the revolutionary ardor Peking needs to justify the sacrifices of its own people. On the world scene, Red China would...
...lasted until 1939, when Mussolini invaded Albania. During the war, the Albanian underground fell under the control of the Communists led by an equally ruthless pair of partisans named Hoxha and Xoxe (pronounced Hoja and Jo-je). In 1949 Hoxha, a firm Stalinist, hanged Xoxe because he inclined toward Tito...