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...decisions of foreign policy are not easy. Last week, after eight years of procrastination, the U.S. and Britain came to a decision on the Trieste issue (see INTERNATIONAL). It may be hard, in the face of Tito's bluster, to make the Trieste verdict stick. But on this and a thousand other points, the danger is too great for continued vacillation. With no net below, the trapeze requires caution, but it also requires an alert eye and a quick, unfaltering hand...
Yugoslavia, trading hard on its cold war value to the West, wants all the Free Territory except the city of Trieste for itself, demands that the port be internationalized to keep it out of Italy's control. But diplomatic soundings in Belgrade suggested that Marshal Tito, though he would squawk, might be brought to settle for an arrangement that would leave him in control of the less populous Zone B part of the divided Free Territory of Trieste...
Last week Tito took the wraps off some of his 300,000 troops, and the jest proved just a jest. In Ljubljana gap, the mountain corridor leading from the Hungarian plains to Zagreb, Rijeka and Trieste, a group of military observers and reporters from six NATO nations watched while 65,000 Yugoslavs maneuvered. Spruce and high-spirited, they were divided into an "aggressor" force and a defending force covering Zagreb. They maneuvered with Sherman tanks, trucks, jeeps, 90-mm. guns, U.S.-made F47 fighters (World War II's Thunderbolts) and British Mosquitoes, and they handled them with facility...
...After Tito's Yugoslavia broke from Moscow and the Cominform in 1948, the U.S. poured into the country hundreds of millions in arms and war supplies. But Western observers could not get a look at the results, could only wonder whether Dictator Tito's army, which won its World War II fame as a ragged band of partisans, was able to handle modern weapons and machines. A jape circulated through Western embassies in Belgrade had it that the slogan of the Yugoslav army was: "Give us the job, and we'll finish the tools...
...Tito himself, driving around the maneuvers area in a U.S. jeep, was pleased with his troops' performance and by Western praise of it. But he nostalgically recalled his tough, resourceful partisan bands of World War II. "There is still a role for partisans in modern war," Tito said. "There are two Yugoslav armies, and one of them is partisan...