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...pertinent criticism of past Soviet foreign policy at the 20th Congress of the Communist Party in Moscow last February was Soviet Foreign Minister Vyacheslav Molotov himself. Last week Molotov was the victim of the method he advocated. Eight years ago he had signed the letters which summarily expelled Marshal Tito's Yugoslavia from the fraternity of 'Communist countries. "Elasticity" in the current foreign-policy line, now vociferously welcoming Tito back in Moscow, demanded that Molotov get out of his job of Foreign Minister...
Molotov's departure had been long foreseen; the surprise was in the timing. In a gesture worthy of Herod, Molotov's head was served on a platter as a welcome to Tito...
...Tito (who is making a triumphal return call to Moscow this week) has recently been acting as self-appointed broker for Russia's Nikita Khrushchev in the Communist campaign to woo Western socialists. The campaign has not been going at all well, particularly since B. & K.'s disastrous' dinner with British Laborites (TIME, May 7). Last week Tito's patience broke down when he received a letter from Phillips bringing up the subject of the shabby treatment given to Djilas...
...Angry Reply. Tito passed the letter over to Party Propagandist Veljko Vlahovic, and in the party newspaper Borba Vlahovic gave it the heavy ironic treatment. Yugoslavs, he said, resent Phillips' "attitude of a tutor," and if the subject is humane administration, the "Yugoslav public (not only our Orthodox Church) is very dissatisfied with the deportation of Makarios, to say nothing of the hanging of people on Cyprus or ... the shootings in Kenya...
...confirmed nor denied by the political police, probably as a means of further demoralizing their victim, has it that a special dossier of Djilas' "crimes" is being prepared, and that the police have been doing a lot of talking to Djilas' old friend, onetime Partisan Hero (and Tito Biographer) Vladimir Dedijer...