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...torrent of events, old relationships were being reversed, old positions abandoned, old ideas discarded. Here was India, under savage assault from the Communist giant it had sought to befriend, unaided by the neutralist nations it had led ("Where was Sukarno? Where was Nasser? Where was Tito?" asked a disillusioned Indian diplomat). And here was India, the unaligned, seeking and receiving help from the Western powers it had scorned. Here, at the same time, was neighboring Pakistan, long one of the U.S.'s staunchest friends, threatening to turn to a policy of "positive independence," and sending Foreign Minister Mohammed...
Perhaps the hangover from the days of control prevents the Government from seeing the real parallels here. Both Cuba and Yugoslavia approached Communism via nationalism. Like Tito, Castro's leadership extended beyond the organized left, directly to the peasants who comprised the revolutionary movement. And at the common core of the Cuban left and the Yugoslavian left is not a long-standing devotion to Marxist-Leninist principles, but an intense nationalism...
...without Red Army help, that nation was Yugoslavia. And if any other country came to Socialism owing the Soviet Union no military debt, that country is Cuba. The Soviet distrust of Castro and his colleagues, today so easily forgotten, parallele the Stalinist distrust of the independently victorious Josip Broz Tito. Just as Tito did in the late '40s, Castro has found it necessary to dismiss those politicians who regard the USSR as their patria. Finally, it was a dispute over military autonomy that catalyzed the Yugoslav-Soviet conflict. The same could hold true in Cuba...
...attempt has been made, however, to re-create in Cuba the conditions that enabled Tito to assert his independence. It is worth recalling that American businessmen and diplomats were sufficiently active in Belgrade for Pravda to cite the presence of "Washington agents" as steady proof of Tito's unreliability. That silly slogan about Communism not being negotiable in this hemisphere was, fortunately, not applied to the northern half of the globe...
Fidel Castro has now been burdened and disgraced by the Soviet Union. His speeches have shown the strain of a man who senses the incompatibility of Cuban and Soviet objectives. But the U.S. has not allowed him to say, as Tito could eventually, "We do not want to pay other people's bills.... Never again will we be dependent on anybody...