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...Years Since. Tito also took a dictator's precautions. He rounded up and put in prison more than 11,000 persons suspected of favoring the Cominform's policy-where they joined the Split fishermen. For months Tito scuffed a servile shoe outside the Cominform's closed door, angrily brushed off any suggestion of help from the West, and pleaded to be taken back. The Kremlin responded by cutting off Yugoslavia's trade with one satellite after another. In September 1949, it declared Yugoslavia "a foe and an enemy of the Soviet Union," and ended its mutual...
...short, Tito, deviationist, thought he knew better than the Kremlin. There was only one possible answer. A few weeks later, Tito and his Yugoslavs were expelled from the Cominform on the charge of "nationalism" and associated crimes; Yugoslav Communists were ordered to "change the Communist leaders...
...Kremlin waited. Always before, when they denounced a man, the comrades cut him down. Nothing happened. Among the top Yugoslav leaders, all of whom had fought through the war with Tito in Yugoslavia's cruel mountains, the Kremlin had been unable to plant anyone high enough to conduct its purge...
...Tito began gingerly approaches to the West. "We are not going to make any concessions with regard to our foreign policy," he cried. "Anyone who does not wish to trade with us on such a basis should not trade with us, because we should prefer to go naked...
...soon he was accepting loans from the U.S. and Britain, making trade agreements with Italy, getting loans from the Export-Import Bank. After the drought of 1950, Tito brusquely applied for a U.S. emergency grant and got $69 million. But Yugoslavia, Tito boasted, "stayed faithful to our principles . . . giving no concessions, making no withdrawal from our Marxist line...