Word: tito
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...country's internal affairs be settled internally. Every peaceful country is a potential ally against an aggressor nation, and we need every ally we can find, especially one with a large standing army occupying the last bulwark of continental Western Europe. Indeed, we are giving aid to Tito's Communist dictatorship: and how can the CRIMSON editors reconcile their advocacy of alliance with Tito's Yugoslavia with their hostility toward Franco's Spain? Herbert Barry...
This famine endangers the Tito regime so that the Marshal will have to import $50,000,000 in foodstuffs if he is to avoid mass starvation in Yugoslavia. He will be forced to cancel a large grain export program with which he hoped to earn money for the purchase of machinery. Discontent is already growing on the countryside; only two weeks ago starving peasants in the village of Selo burned local government headquarters. Similar outbreaks may convince Russia that the time is ripe to bring Yugoslavia back into the Cominform fold by getting rid of Tito and the Titoists...
...order to avoid hunger and unrest this winter, Tito has asked the United States for assistance. In fact he said in a speech to a Yuogslav Women's Congress Sunday that this country was already giving aid to Yugoslavia "favorable consideration...
...Tito's plea for help deserves not only favorable consideration but action as soon as possible in the form of sending either funds to buy food or the foodstuffs themselves. Although Titoist Yugoslavia is a Communist dictatorship of the most unsavory sort, Yugoslavia is also a diplomatic oddity well worth preserving. She is a Communist nation that has escaped the Russian orbit. As such she may sway other Communist nations, such as China, to the view that there is a third relationship with Western nations besides clearcut alliance or clearcut opposition...
...should the United States ignore the military value of Yugoslavia friendship. Tito has 33 to 35 highly trained, armed divisions under arms and close to a million trained reserves. It would be poor diplomacy to risk the collapse of a regime, no matter how distasteful, if such a collapse meant these armed forces would be under Russian control...