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Farmhouses & Gardens. The talks were private. By last week the Anglo-American negotiators had traversed half the hard ground to a meeting of minds between Italy and Yugoslavia. Tito's representatives had now tentatively accepted the Anglo-American plan; the next step would be to take it up with Italy. The secrecy was designed to prevent either side from claiming prematurely it had got the best of the deal. The secrecy had been fairly well honored, except for two conspicuous leaks by Tito to newsmen...
...months of negotiating, Tito's men haggled over a farmhouse here, a truck garden there, until they had won the cession of approximately a mile more territory than proposed in the Oct. 8 plan...
...permanent loss of the city of Trieste, perhaps in Yugoslavia's Zone B, but preferably far to the south, at Bar (Antivari) on the Albanian border, which would be of more strategic use in case of a war with Russia. The U.S. opposed that, suggested giving Tito access to facilities in Trieste...
...second day, Tito sat down with Field Marshal Alexander Papagos, the Greek Premier. Within two hours they had agreed to the final details of a new Balkan entente, the first in 20 years. Without any nudging from the West, without any inducements of cash or arms, Greece, Yugoslavia and Turkey voluntarily allied themselves against Soviet imperialism. (If anything, Britain and the U.S. tried to stall the pending pact, lest it irritate Italy, which is still at odds with Tito over Trieste.) The agreement will mobilize a combined army of 800,000 tough fighters to repel any attack from or through...
...offset this get-together, Red satellite Albania last week entertained Russia's Admiral Sergei Gorshkov, who guided his 12,000-ton cruiser Maximov and two destroyers through the Dardanelles and up the Adriatic, in full sight of Tito's ship...