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...timing of the loan to Spain was designed to smooth the way for U.S. aid to another dictator whom the Administration was more eager than Congress to help: Yugoslavia's Marshal Tito. With Spain assured of its pot of gold, President Truman asked congressional leaders for money to Tito to offset a famine which might, said the President, topple Tito from power. President Truman did not deny that Tito was a Communist; he simply did not mention it. "Tito's defection from Kremlin control represents the first setback for Soviet imperialism and as such is an important political...
Until last winter the Communist press of Yugoslavia behaved and read like the Communist press anywhere. Then last spring, long after Marshal Tito's wrenching break with Moscow, a subtle change began to come over Belgrade's editorial rooms: Yugoslav newsmen swung like weathervanes from their Soviet-style polemics, began spinning reasonably honest stories for their startled readers. Recently U.N. and North Korean war communiques have run side by side in the capital's Communist papers. Strangest of all, criticism of Communist officials appeared in public print...
...weeks ago Tito was proud of this press freedom. He told New York Compass Writer I. F. Stone that "anybody . could say whatever he wanted to in Yugoslavia . . . nobody was punished for saying what he pleased . . ." and that "it could be seen in Yugoslavia that [the government] tried to encourage criticism of all negative phenomena...
...Tito even took the implied advice of Copic and Dzumhur. By decree, he stripped the luxurious commissars of such negative phenomena as their PX cards, gas rations, special food and clothing allowances, villas and other amenities (TIME...
There is no analogy between France and Tito; Tito is bad, but the alternative to his regime--straight Russian domination--would be worse. The alternative to France, with Communism a small threat in Spain, can only be better...