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...Marshal Tito yelled bloody murder, louder and more impressively than ever before. His yell last week rose from a 481-page White Book on the "aggressive activities" of Russia and her satellites against Yugoslavia. Copies were delivered to the Western nations and to U.N. Secretary General Trygve...
...Tito's government charged that Rumania, Hungary and Bulgaria are carrying on a "permanent little war" along Yugoslavia's borders. Specifically, the satellites...
...Dictator Tito rose from a sickbed (flu). Said he: "If I did not appear, you see, the Cominform would say I had been liquidated. We leaders of Yugoslavia are simply not permitted to be ill. But over there, when Stalin sneezes, it constitutes a tremendous contribution to the science of Marxism-Leninism." Seriously, he added: "Every inch of our land has been soaked in blood in the past, and, if necessary, it will be soaked in blood again. But it will remain ours...
Against this array, Tito has a tough army of 600,000 men. But his country was hit hard by last year's drought. Political concessions made to Yugoslavia's restless population may have weakened his hold on his own Party machine...
London and Washington feared that Tito's troubles at home plus the rearmament of his hostile neighbors might tempt the Kremlin into a Balkan Korea. A sign of U.S. backing for Tito was the visit to Belgrade of Assistant Secretary of State George Perkins. The U.S. Mediterranean fleet has just completed joint maneuvers with the British. In Washington, Secretary of State Dean Acheson, like Tito, broadly hinted that "the fabric of peace" would be rent asunder by World War III if Yugoslavia were attacked...