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Next Monday the American Ambassador to Yugoslavia is flying to London to discuss the "Tito Question" with the European Command of the State Department. Out of these talks should come a major decision on future American policy in Europe. Is the West content to maintain the status quo with Russia, or should it attempt to push the border back by encouraging unorthodoxy and nationalism among non-Russian communists? The U. S. is already committed to a $20,000,000 loan to Tito. The subject now is how much more help--if any--should be sent. In making up its mind...
...Tito's heresy can be of great value to the U. S. Since the danger to American security today is not communism but Russian expansion, Tito's break with the Cominform is an encouraging sign of abatement in the cold war. If his venture is successful, both Eastern and Western communists may adopt his doctrine of independence...
...spread of Titoism depends on Tito's proof of its ability to survive. Because he is cut off from the East, that survival in turn depends on U. S. support. This is unfortunate for many reasons. Aid to Tito antagonizes Russia, although the likelihood of Russian attack hinges on the unknown factor of how the Soviets assess his threat to Eastern solidarity. Aid to Tito may well appear as another example of Western imperialism and alarm Eastern Europeans. Tito's regime is vigorously anti-democratic and the U. S. can have no intrinsic interest in maintaining...
...Prague the Communists began the biggest purge since they seized power in February 1948. Squads of security police roamed the streets; thousands of persons were sent to uranium mines and forced labor camps. The main targets seemed to be businessmen, but a new stigma was strongly in evidence: "Tito-sympathizer...
Sculptor Jo Davidson, who has modeled heads of Franklin Roosevelt, Mohandas Gandhi, Albert Einstein and Frank Sinatra, wound up a commission in Belgrade, put the finishing touches on a bust of Marshal Tito...