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When Marshal Tito flew into the Crimea to take a brief "vacation" at Russia's First Party Secretary Nikita Khrushchev's sunny Yalta villa, he did not expect to meet so many old comrades. The emphasis of the eight-day talk in Nikita's parlor and in Yalta's woods and hills was on "comradeship" among the European Communist Parties. A thoughtful Tito, as he flew back to Belgrade one day last week, must have been brooding deeply about how comradely an independent Yugoslav Communist could afford to be. It was not difficult to understand...
Something to Swallow. In a cryptic aside to one of his top aides a few weeks ago Tito said: "The Russians are getting difficult again. This time we've got to swallow it." Western observers, to whom the remark leaked, guessed what Tito was talking about: a few carping lines in Moscow's Pravda drawing attention to the fact that trials are still being held for repatriated pro-Stalin Yugoslavs, hundreds of whom Tito is said to have jailed. A later report that cropped up in Warsaw-that the Soviet Central Committee was circulating a letter describing Tito...
...Tito's remark that Yugoslavia would have "to swallow" attacks from the Soviet right wing was interpreted as meaning that any show of aggressive independence at this point would merely help the rightists. After the surprise departure last week, a Belgrade spokesman said that Tito had gone to Yalta to "strengthen Khrushchev's hand." But if Khrushchev is in trouble with his own party, how does Tito's presence at Yalta help him? There were no firm answers to this question last week, but hints dropped through Communist channels over the past few months indicated how Tito...
...Communists to dramatize their message to the Russian people. They have also served as a means by which those who control them can, by involving oppositionists, destroy them. A leading witness for the prosecution in a posthumous trial of Joseph Stalin would, of choice and necessity, be Josip Broz Tito...
Watching Yalta from afar last week the West could not avoid the automatic twinge of uneasiness that comes whenever Communists get together. It would be a jar, indeed, to have strong, rambunctious Marshal Tito and his husky army march back at full flag to the service of Communist expansion. But in almost every clue to the Yalta meeting and in every conjecture, however farfetched, there was a basic cause for composure: the primary reason for the conclave seemed to be a schism in world Communism...