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Though their affair could hardly be the same ever again, Communism's celebrated divorcees, Soviet Russia and Yugoslavia, were beginning to speak nicely of one another. Marshal Tito's word for it is "normalization," a process which has been going on since Stalin died. Less than three months after Stalin's death, full diplomatic relations were resumed. The Danube Commission, the Communist-run agency which regulates all that floats through central and southern Europe, relaxed its stranglehold on Yugoslav commerce. On the anniversary of the Bolshevik revolution last November, Tito cabled Moscow his best wishes, got back...
These increasing signs of "normalization" make Western diplomats in Belgrade a little nervous; after all, the U.S. is pouring half a billion dollars in aid into Yugoslavia. But they are only nervous, not alarmed. They don't trust Comrade Tito, but depend on his cold-blooded assessment of his own cold-blooded interest. Necessity made him join with Greece and Turkey in a military pact, which indirectly binds him with the West's NATO alliance...
...week's end some 1,400 Italians caught on the Yugoslav side of the new border had transferred their possessions into the Italian zone. "I don't intend to leave Tito so much as a chair," said...
...sided inspection of the stresses in the imperial structure would be falsely encouraging; The Formation of the Soviet Union has a sobering effect as well. It exposes the sinews that bind the borderlands to the empire, and make a Tito-like rebellion within the Soviet Union a very dim prospect. Nearly every disruptive force inside the USSR evokes a counterforce which helps preserve stability. The dynamics of the USSR have changed very little since 1924 in this respect...
Good Fruit. In Belgrade, where Yugoslav Communists had once trumpeted, "We give our life, but never Trieste!" Marshal Tito reacted with equal grace and calm. "The settlement of the Trieste question," said Tito's Acting Foreign Secretary Ales Bebler, "should be the springboard toward [a] new era in relations." Tito himself spoke warmly of the negotiations that had produced the settlement, paying particular tribute to President Eisenhower for the personal letter which persuaded Tito to give ground and thereby make the settlement possible. The Yugoslav leader added: "With this understanding we are prepared to accept with the greatest pleasure...