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Foreign Office wastebaskets in Eastern Europe overflowed last week; Communists were tearing up treaties. Stalin began by formally denouncing Russia's treaty of mutual assistance with Tito's Yugoslavia. Sensing the Kremlin's Tito-indigestion, Russia's satellites dutifully burped: one by one they denounced the treaties with Yugoslavia which had been fanfared to the world...
Russia annulled her treaty with Yugoslavia on the ground that the confessions of Laszlo Rajk, onetime Communist Hungarian Foreign Minister, in the Budapest show trial, had proved the existence of a Tito-U.S. conspiracy against Russia...
...Tito in his reply to Moscow complained of Russia's "demonstrative Soviet troop movements in the neighboring countries along the Yugoslav border"; these, he said, were intended "to intimidate the Yugoslav peoples and to exercise pressure upon them." His most immediate worry was not that Yugoslavia would be invaded but that Yugoslav Communists would split under the Red army pressure...
Laszlo Rajk, former Hungarian Foreign Minister, on trial for plotting to overthrow Hungary's government, was close to the end of the road. The trial itself, charged Marshal Tito last week, was part of a plot to overthrow the Yugoslav government. In a firm diplomatic note, Tito called the trial a "juridical burlesque...
...Iron Curtain between Yugoslavia and the Soviet East zipped up tighter yesterday when Rumania announced she too had severed friendship treaties with Tito's country. The formal isolation of Yugoslavia from the East completes except for Czechoslovakia the moves of Poland, Bulgaria, and Hungary, who followed the lead of Russia...