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Black Pedro. With the beaming Khrushchev at his elbow, Tito had met the black-browed Pedro, whom Khrushchev introduced, and of course the prestigious Serov. Tito certainly remembered them. They had all been working for Stalin during the Spanish civil war 20 years before. That was when Tito was a Comintern agent traveling under the name of Walter, and Pedro and Serov were top Russian secret police operators. In that office, Serov, Pedro and Walter (and other Communist notables, including France's Andre Marty and Italy's Palmiro Togliatti) shared a common assignment: the liquidation of all left...
...World War II, after the spectacular failure in Spain, Serov, Pedro, Walter & Co. had remained faithful Stalinists, though their ways parted. Tito in Yugoslavia organized a Communist-controlled partisan army; Serov back in Russia rounded out his NKVD career as the liquidator of minority nationalities, numbering some millions of people who saw the war as a chance to throw off the Soviet yoke; Pedro became a big wheel in Moscow's Free Germany Committee, and later, under the name of Erno Gero, Stalin's agent in Hungary. When Tito, protected by his 33-division Yugoslav army, broke with...
Meeting these comrade antagonists again last week, matching their friendly handshakes, Tito had reason to guess that their comradely smiles were inspired by the fact that, after a temporary setback, the old Stalin faithfuls of Soviet Communism were again wielding influence...
Funeral for Face. There is no real evidence that Tito is going to fall into the trap set for him by his old comrades. In fact, the Soviet Communists, by making a number of concessions to him, made his visit to Yalta seem highly successful. In Hungary, the Communists ordered the disinterment and state reburial of former Foreign Minister Laszlo Rajk and three other top-ranking Communists who were all hanged seven years ago as Titoists. The Hungarian state Cabinet and some 200,000 Hungarians marching behind the black coffins were, in effect, a tribute to Tito...
Cautious not to read too much into these "face" maneuvers, Western experts were of no mind to write off Marshal Tito as a son returned to the tight Red fold. In Washington, Secretary of State Dulles said he had no reason to think that Tito had changed his policy, which was "that the now satellite countries should have a greater measure of independence." To get at the truth of Tito's position, virtually every Western and Communist diplomat in Belgrade (including U.S. Ambassador James W. Riddleberger, back in Belgrade from vacation) was lined up for official interviews with...