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...high-powered, bulletproof ZIS limousine sped along Belgrade's narrow streets and broad avenues, between lines of poplars and policemen, lined up in front of the Great Hall of Topchider Park. Out of the car stepped a husky man in a blue dress uniform. Marshal Josip Broz Tito, Communist dictator of Yugoslavia and a gaudily tricked-out specter to the rest of the Communist world, was going to make a speech...
...strode into the hall amid frenetic cheers from 1,642 delegates to the third Congress of the Yugoslav People's Front. While his followers stamped and cried "Tito, Tito!", he mounted the platform and put on his reading glasses. Then, as virulent as ever, he shouted defiance at Joseph Stalin's Cominform. They were trying to foment civil war in Yugoslavia, he cried. They were accusing him of doing business with the Western powers. Cocky Tito pleaded guilty to that charge. "Are we going to trade-that is, buy everything we need and sell everything...
Greek government troops, with U.S. help, have lately made progress against the Communist rebels. Although Tito has cut down on his aid, Soviet satellites Bulgaria and Albania continue to train and equip the Greek Reds. On both sides of the Iron Curtain the struggle for Greece is watched intently. Failure to clean out the Communist bands will be taken as evidence that the anti-Communist world has no effective answer to Communist rebellion...
...first-rate reporting job during his tour of duty is perhaps best exemplified by the now historic documents on the Tito-Stalin conflict, which ended in Moscow's excommunication of Marshal Tito. Low managed to get them in advance of general publication and, as printed in TIME'S August 23, 1948 issue, they were the first complete summary of this revealing correspondence. Other Low stories that you may recall include his account of the Communist guerrilla raid on the Greek town of Naousa (TIME, Jan. 31), and Patriot George Magalios and the American aid program for Greece...
Anna's love affair with the Kremlin. Always a promoter of the old illusion that Communism and local patriotism can mix, she had applauded Yugoslavia's Tito too freely, and she was suspected of trying to get to China to peddle Titoism to her old friend, Mao Tse-tung. To this Anna answered: "Poppycock." She was already feeling better about being back home: "I feel more . . . comfortable in this country than in any other part of the world. I do not find it the most interesting or exciting country ... I want to go to some country where there...