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...weekend, lights burned late at the State Department as Washington weighed the implications of the Polish move. It was the biggest moment of decision in the cold war since Khrushchev last spring tore down the Stalin image and conceded to Tito that alternate roads to "socialism" are possible. (It was the State Department that first published the Khrushchev text.) The pattern had already been set. The U.S., by backing up Tito when he first broke with the Kremlin, had launched its first major step in breaking up the Soviet empire eight years ago. President Eisenhower, by deciding to continue that...
Their defiance of Moscow was the biggest internal shock the Communists have received since Tito's breakaway in 1948. In many respects what the Polish Communists did was a greater act of courage than Tito's, for Tito when he defied Stalin had control of his own country and of its armed forces. The Polish leaders did not. They had only the passion of an idea, and the knowledge that in this, at least, they might count on the backing of their people...
Zbigniew K. Brzezinski, instructor in Government, said, "The Polish situation poses for the Soviet leadership an almost insoluble problem. To use force against the Poles might mean a crisis in international communism, e.g., a renewed defection by Tito, difficulties with the Italian Communist party, possibly even strained relations with Mao Tse Tung...
Unhelping Hand. In sum, what the rank-and-file Yugoslav Communists were being told about the Tito-Khrushchev talks was that Tito had not been success ful in strengthening Khrushchev's hand at Yalta. There was even speculation in Belgrade that Khrushchev, fighting a formidable opposition in his own party, might not remain long in power...
While all these down-the-line explanations were reassuring to Yugoslav Communists, they also performed another function. Cordially leaked to newsmen, they established Marshal Tito firmly in his role of rugged independent. Coming at a moment when the U.S. was deciding what further aid should be given to Tito, they seemed just a little too neatly tailored, as if designed for Western consumption. The world was still waiting for a full account of the strange meeting from Tito himself...