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From the Poznan riots to the Battle of Budapest, the one voice which should have been heard above the tumult of revolt was that of Yugoslavia's Marshal Tito. For "Titoism," if not Tito, was at the bottom of most of the trouble. Yet Tito had little to say while events were going further than he intended. Like any dictator, he wanted no dictation from the streets. Last week Tito spoke...
What impelled Tito to clarify his position was an oblique rumor, reprinted with deliberate intent in Moscow's Pravda, that the "reactionary fascist uprising" in Hungary was all Tito's doing. To clear himself of this charge, Tito threw down the compromised Imre Nagy (who had found asylum in the Yugoslav embassy in Budapest) : "If his government had been more energetic, if it had not hesitated one time one way and then another, if it had resolutely stood up against anarchy . . . things would have moved in a more correct way." Tito now supported the Soviet-puppet Kadar regime...
Justified Mistake. The first Soviet intervention in Budapest, which led to the shooting down of workers, Tito called "absolutely wrong," brought on by stupid Stalinists not giving in to legitimate complaints. But later "reactionary elements interfered . . -. an unleashed fascist reactionary mob . . . killed Communists." It was "clear that a horrible massacre, a horrible civil war would result ... in which Socialism [Soviet variety] might be completely buried." Thus the second "Soviet intervention" with tanks to shoot down the rebels was "completely justified." It was also a "mistake": some Kremlinists "still believe that military strength solves everything. But just see how a bare...
...Tito tells it, a great struggle is going on in the Kremlin between his kind of people and those he calls Stalinists. During his secret talks with Soviet leaders in the Crimea two months ago, he noted that "they began getting colder" toward himself and to earlier suggestions he had made for "democratization" of the Soviet satellite countries. However, he "did not take this too tragically," because he saw that "this was not the attitude of the entire Soviet leadership, but only of a section which had imposed its will on the others." In the end, to help them...
...Hand. All the while, from the Russian standpoint, Hungary was veering out of control. Premier Imre Nagy, himself an old and routinely conscienceless Moscow hand, had been made Premier by the Russians, somewhat reluctantly, at Tito's behest, and ordered to govern with a national Communist Party like that in Poland. His first Cabinet had been just that, an assemblage of Politburocrats with a few non-Communists for show. But somewhere along the road, perhaps because of personal conviction, more likely because of the sheer explosion of Hungarian antiCommunism, he dropped most of his Communists by the wayside...