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This analysis was echoed a couple of days later by Marshal Tito's theoreticians in Belgrade. The government-inspired Review of International Affairs argued that Korea has become an arena where Russia and China are competing for dominance of all Asia. Stalin was ahead until his North Korean puppets collapsed, and that, according to Tito's pundits, was Mao's cue to leap "into the forefront...
...with Russia. In this view the U.S. should stay in Europe, wage an air and sea blockade on Communist China, and take allies where they could be found-Nationalist China's Chiang Kai-shek and his army on Formosa, Generalissimo Francisco Franco and his strategic Spain, Tito and Yugoslavia...
...home front, he called for immediate economic mobilization under a strong administrator with full authority over economic controls, production and civilian manpower. Abroad, he said, the U.S. should make it plain which areas of the world it is prepared to defend, should form a military alliance with Tito and Franco, arm the Germans, Japanese and Nationalist Chinese, limit Marshall aid to countries which would help the U.S. fight in case...
EXPERIMENT is the rule throughout every phase of Tito's Yugoslavia, and the general result is regimented confusion. Much of the government resembles the experimental laboratory of a university: a lot of kids-some with textbooks still in hand-are trying to run a country...
...apathy extends to the youth-the sought-after darlings whom the Tito Reds woo with special treatment and propaganda. I went to a youth demonstration to celebrate the partial completion of dormitories for Belgrade's new University City on the Zemun Marshes. Thousands of teen-agers billed as students had worked here for months in "Voluntary Labor Brigades." With the major construction done (though floors and windows were not in), the volunteers had been summoned to a monster rally...