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Asked by CBS' Ed Murrow to define his foreign policy, Yugoslavia's Marshal Tito gave it a game try, sounded like a sorghum Senator caught without his ghostwriter: "Well, it is difficult to say-how I shall put it-because it is a d'iffi-cult job. Our foreign policy is known. Well, we are not in any of the existing blocs. We stand for the principles of coexistence. And, of course, if it is necessary now to describe our foreign policy, then one-one must take care to-to-to do it in that...
Early in October Moscow sent Hungary's Premier Andras Hegedus and Party Secretary Erno Gero on a visit to Tito's Yugoslavia, and the world concluded that Kremlin concessions to Hungary were in the wind. But several days before the revolt broke out, says the U.N. report, ponton bridges were assembled by the Russian army at Zahony on the Hungarian-Soviet frontier. And in neighboring Rumania, Soviet officers on leave and reserve officers speaking Hungarian were recalled to their units...
...satellites, Albanians the only one where there was no easing up after Stalin's death, and when Moscow made friends with Tito two years ago, Albania conspicuously did not join the comradeship. In fact, whenever Moscow wants to show its contempt of Tito, it lets Albania's Dictator Hoxha denounce him, and then lengthily quotes Hoxha in Pravda. This is doubly humiliating because Tito detests Hoxha, and believes that if he is to be shot at, Moscow might at least use heavier artillery...
...weeks ago, at an Albanian banquet in the Kremlin, Nikita Khrushchev made it plain that he wants Hoxha to fire off no more blasts at Tito. This was Khrushchev's way of indicating that he was prepared to resume the friendship with Tito that was interrupted by the revolt in Hungary...
...escaped Major General Plaku fits in all this, the outside world could not know. But if, as is probable, he was a Titoist intriguer in Albania who fled because he feared he had been discovered, his appearance in Belgrade at this moment was a little embarrassing to his host. Tito was just getting ready to send his own Defense Minister to Russia, and hurriedly hustled Plaku out of sight...