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...last time Tito saw Paris was as an undercover Communist agent during the Spanish civil war. Traveling on forged papers as a Czech named Jaromir Havlicek, he set up headquarters in a Left Bank fleabag to arrange the dispatch of 1,500 Yugoslav volunteers to fight for Loyalist Spain. The police kept...
...Bulganin he had found "suave, restrained, and very easy to converse with. He gave an impression of reserved strength," but Khrushchev "struck me as a man who was not really very sure of himself, and therefore tried to give the impression of being a strong, rough man." Both Tito and China's Mao Tse-tung had impressed Attlee more with their quiet assurance. "That is perhaps natural for they have far more of actual achievement behind them. It may be that Khrushchev is just a passing figure, destined to be liquidated as so many others have been. There...
...days of his exile from the fold, nobody stomped on that "fascist dog" Tito with more enthusiasm than Hun gary's bullet-headed Matyas Rakosi. He eliminated his enemies (notably former Foreign Minister Laszlo Rajk) on the charge of "Titoism" and missed no opportunity for verbal abuse of Tito himself. Then Big Brother told all good Communists they had to be nice to errant Little Brother Tito-or else. It was Tito's turn, and he demanded Rakosi eat a full portion of crow, and be quick about...
Rakosi was naturally reluctant. He dutifully found a Beria-type scapegoat, his own ex-police chief. Peter Gabor, and blamed him for all the misunderstanding. But when Tito demanded $200 million as Yugoslavia's bill against Hungary-war reparations, damages claimed as Hungary's part in the Cominform boycott-Rakosi offered only a measly $20 million. Tito indignantly refused...
...Writers' Federation, Rakosi was called a "murderer" and a "Judas," and on a vote of confidence only 20 out of 180 writers supported the party. Rakosi's one advantage is that the Russians seem unable to find anyone to replace him. But when the news came that Tito had been invited to visit Moscow in June, Rakosi-began to act like a worried man with a vision of Tito com plaining about his noncooperation. He hastily "rehabilitated" the late Titoist Rajk, began extolling "collective leadership" and Yugoslav friendship, rushed Finance Minister Karolyi Olt to Belgrade, where the price...