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Stalin's autocracy was incapable of dealing with the vastly enlarged empire gained in World War II. The aging dictator ruthlessly suppressed nationalist tendencies in Poland, launched a bitter hate campaign against the recalcitrant Tito, and in the Soviet Union refused his war weary people any of the easing of their misery that they had hoped peace would bring. Toward the end of his days, Stalin may have begun to see the essential weakness of his personal autocracy; in 1952 he called, for the first time since 1939, a congress of the party, reconvened the Central Committee...
...Tito Smells Bad. But there is another side to Khrushchev's benevolence and melting concern for peace and prosperity. Tossing away a party-prepared oration at a workers meeting in Czechoslovakia last week, Khrushchev gave vent to some tough talk about Tito. "Now certain clever boys begin criticizing us. They say you have done this badly and that stupidly. Listen, dears, where were you when we started the Revolution?" Nikita made clear that he was talking of Tito by telling Yugoslav journalists present not to put down what he had to say, that he would soon tell Tito...
...outcry against the Soviet Union." And in a three-hour speech Khrushchev charged that the Malenkov group, operating from a headquarters in Moscow, with ramifications throughout the Soviet Union and in the Foreign Ministry and Soviet embassies abroad, had frustrated his attempts at a reconciliation with Yugoslavia's Tito in 1954, and had sabotaged his efforts to lull the West with his "relaxation-of-tensions" campaign...
...journalistic speculation that the changes in Moscow might inspire "similar revisions" in East German leadership. In Hungary the Budapest radio feared that "certain revisionist circles" might try to take advantage of the situation and said that "necessary firmness must be displayed." Poland's Gomulka and Yugoslavia's Tito were plainly pleased: their "many roads to socialism" now seemed to bear the approving imprint of Khrushchev's pudgy thumb...
...sensitive interpretation of Troilus, showing an understanding of his composite personality. Regina Oliver was commendable as Cassandra, although she needed more variety of voice. William Harris, as Cressida's father, suffered most from overacting and a reliance on stick gestures. The Prince Regent, Hector, was strongly reminiscent of Marshall Tito, but needed a more imperial air. Paris was overplayed as an asinine nincompoop by Gardiner Tillson. Among the minor characters were three very good Palace soldiers of which Sol Schwade was outstanding...