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...Getting Tito's Goat. Jovial and blunt, Zhukov was the man in the top Soviet hierarchy that Westerners liked best; even Ike Eisenhower spoke of him as a friend. In the Soviet Union he was popular beyond a dictator's dreams. Shortly after his elevation to the Presidium, he went off to Leningrad, received a popular ovation rarely seen in the Soviet Union. There he made a speech denouncing the ousted trio as "monsters . . . who have lost their right to be ministers and even members of our great Communist Party" -stronger language than Khrushchev himself had used. Soon...
Early this month, first stopping off for a talk with Khrushchev in the Crimea, Marshal Zhukov boarded the cruiser Kuibyshev for a long-planned visit to Yugoslavia and Albania. Clad in rough green hunting suit, he went shooting mountain goats with Tito (he bagged four, Tito one). Though Tito took the step of establishing diplomatic relations with East Germany while he was in the country, Zhukov seemed unconcerned about such political matters. In his one big speech he boasted of "our first-class modern arms, including atomic and hydrogen weapons . . . the intercontinental ballistic rocket." Barging slowly through Albania, he inspected...
...Last Bridge. Europe's high-powered Maria Schell, as a German doctor torn between Hitler's legions, to which she belongs, and Tito's partisans, who impress her into their service (TIME, Sept...
While this attitude is not a particularly positive one, it appears the most expedient at the moment. Without Tito in Yugoslavia the USSR would be certain of its much-sought-after Mediterranean port, and the free world would lose a valuable, if not respected friend...
...Tito has already suffered a good deal of humiliation from the outcry which Americans raised at the prospect of his visiting the U.S. It would be a great mistake to alienate him further by terminating an aid which he considers necessary and which we must hope is well spent...