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Medals Jangling. As Marshal Tito sailed into Bombay Harbor on the Caleb, an ex-Italian minelayer, three Indian and two Yugoslav destroyers played escort. Tito, wearing his marshal's grey uniform with medals jangling on the chest, beamed as he was buried in a garland of roses. Said he in English: "I like...
Bombay State's stringent prohibition law was annulled just for Tito, so that his party could bring in whisky and wines. Before a special twelve-car, two-locomotive train carried the visitors the 850 miles to New Delhi, a pilot train went ahead to test the track. Standing on a red carpet to greet Tito were Nehru and Indian President Prasad. In between a flurry of motorcades, polo matches, preparations for a tiger hunt and bows to street crowds,* the Marshal and the Indian Premier closeted themselves for talks about matters of "great significance." Tito's brand...
Monastic Incantations. Less flashy but perhaps more significant than Tito's arrival in India was U Nu's departure from Red China. The gentle-tongued but hard-minded Burmese Premier had spent 16 days subtly drawing distinctions about Burma's noninvolvement in the cold war. He was generous in his praise of what he had been shown, but not as a product for export: "There is a Burmese saying, 'Every monastery has its own peculiar incantation, and every village has its own favorite song...
Having made his point, U Nu headed home to put heads together with Marshal Tito...
...poll taken before Tito's arrival indicated that only six-tenths of 1% of Indians had ever heard of Tito. In the same poll, a number of Indians thought Red China's Foreign Minister is a man named Dienbienphu...