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...face that Yugoslavia's Communist Boss Tito turned toward his erstwhile big brothers in the Kremlin was beaming more amiably. For a month or more, Yugoslav relations with the Soviet bloc had apparently been growing warmer-warmer than at any time since Tito broke with the Cominform nearly five years ago. The Yugoslav charge d'affaires in Moscow had been personally received by Foreign Minister Molotov, an unheard-of courtesy. Moscow was sending an envoy with the rank of minister to Belgrade, and an exchange of ambassadors was rumored. Criticism of Yugoslavia in the Russian press had almost...
...speech last week (on the eleventh anniversary of the Yugoslav air force), Marshal Tito repeated that better relations with Moscow were desirable. Then, as if to reassure the Western powers that he was not going to collapse in Moscow's arms, he heaped praise on the U.S., Britain and even France for help to his country during the war, and angrily denied that any love fest with the Cominform Communists was in sight. "On the frontier still," he said, "their rifles are shooting our guards. Their press is slandering us. If the U.S.S.R. has softened its propaganda, that...
Last week the Communists agreed and the Iron Gate opened. It was the first time Communist Tito and his Communist neighbors had exchanged helpful gestures since his defection...
Until recently, satellite shipping moved through Yugoslavia, but Tito's ships were constantly harassed by Rumanian officials at the gate. Then Tito blocked satellite traffic on the Yugoslav side. At the same time, he tested the Kremlin by inviting Rumania to set up a joint-control board...
...this agreement indicates that Tito and his neighbors may come to live in peace if not in harmony, the U.S. took no notice. Last week the U.S. Army, in an offshore procurement deal, agreed to buy $5 million worth of ammunition made in Communist Yugoslavia. The bullets will be turned over to the Yugoslavs for their...