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...Then the Emperor gave me the news about his ancient Christian kingdom, perched Swiss-green and cool above Africa's desert heat. The news: Ethiopia has adopted a new posture in foreign affairs which approximates that of 'our great friend,' Yugoslavia's Marshal Josip Broz Tito...
...initial meeting with Tito in 1954 opened Haile Selassie's eyes to another kind of bargaining. Under the tutelage of the Yugoslav fence-straddler-the Emperor and Tito have twice traded visits, Tito has presented the monarch with a yacht, and Ethiopia has built a palace in Addis Ababa just for Tito-Haile Selassie has veered away from the West to sample the plums of neutralism. After a triumphant red-carpet tour of Europe and the Iron Curtain this summer, the Emperor came home counting his blessings like beads on a string: $5,000,000 from the Czechs...
...bite unless you are prepared to swallow," says an old Ethiopian proverb, and a good bit of swallowing is ahead for Haile Selassie in return for his take of the East's goodies. Several thousand refugees from the rule of his great friend Tito are due to be deported back to Yugoslavia soon. Chinese envoys, disguised as journalists, have already arrived in Addis Ababa in hopeful anticipation of Ethiopian diplomatic recognition of Red China. And some time next year, the Emperor has been warned to expect a visit from Communism's senior traveling salesman, Nikita Khrushchev himself...
Debarking in Manhattan after a summer in his native Yugoslavia, Sculptor Ivan Mestrovic, 76, told of a visit he had paid to a lifelong friend: Aloysius Cardinal Stepinac, 61, prisoner of the Tito regime (either in jail or under close surveillance) since 1946. The cardinal is in "good spirits and fairly good health," said Mestrovic. Had the cardinal been tortured...
...home. He had been to Egypt, India, Indonesia, Japan, Yugoslavia, Pakistan, Ceylon, Iraq and the Sudan for average stays of three to five days, and he had worked as hard as a man could at his boondoggle. He dined with Nehru, got photographed with Nasser, talked with Sukarno, Tito, Pakistani President Mohammad Ayub Khan. His message everywhere was "positive neutralism," but it always came out as neutralism against...