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Angered by persistent Peking attacks on his policy of "national Communism," Yugoslavia's Marshal Tito abandoned his former view of the Chinese Reds as a moderating influence on the Kremlin, last week implicitly accused Mao & Co. of being warmongers who boasted that "if 300 million [Chinese] were killed, 300 million would still remain." Gone, too, was Tito's old confidence in Khrushchev as the Kremlin's apostle of liberalism. The bitter new theory is that Khrushchev himself ordered the execution of Nagy and Maleter as a blow against Tito...
...Bubbling Pot. To confirm this thesis, Russia's Czechoslovak stooges all last week were ominously baying that Imre Nagy (rhymes with dodge) had spent the last days of the Hungarian revolt "plotting in the Yugoslav embassy" in Budapest. But the fact seemed to be that Tito, like Nagy and Maleter, was not the real focus of Russian wrath but merely the symbol of a problem that has bedeviled the Soviets ever since the death of Stalin...
...that Stalinist rigidity could not keep the lid on this pot forever, Stalin's successors tried to master the situation by easing up Moscow's pressure on the satellites. In one of history's most humiliating about-faces, Nikita Khrushchev weepingly repudiated Stalinism, paid court to Tito and gave gingerly acceptance to the doctrine of "many roads to socialism." In time, China's Mao Tse-tung followed the Russian lead, proclaimed the wildly un-Marxist doctrine, "Let all flowers bloom...
...mind. The carefully fostered image of a new, "reasonable" Russia weakened but did not fragment the Western alliance, nor did it win the Soviets any significant amount of new ground in the soft spots of Southeast Asia and the Middle East. It did not even persuade the cagey Tito to sign up again for full membership in "the camp of socialism...
Rossini: The Barber of Seville (Maria Callas, Tito Gobbi, Luigi Alva, Nicola Zaccaria, Fritz Ollendorff; Philharmonia Orchestra and Chorus conducted by Alceo Galliera; Angel, 3 LPs). Callas' adroitly wrought Rosina strikes a precarious balance between bubbly naivetè and a subliminal Latin wisdom as shrewd as a fishwife's eye. The Callas voice is in soaring form, buttressed by Baritone Gobbi's smooth, superbly flexible rendering of the role of Figaro and Basso Zaccaria's sumptuous, tomfoolish Basilio. Conductor Galliera provides the coherence and dramatic drive necessary to Rossini's comic frenzy...