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...history. Like twins, in grey suits, trench coats and snap-brim hats, Yugoslavia's Marshal Tito and Russia's Communist Party Chief Nikita Khrushchev stepped smartly into a Russian Il-14. The plane took off without even any warm-up of its two engines. The destination was Yalta, the resort on Russia's Black Sea coast where the Allied leaders held their momentous war conference...
...issued by the Tanjug agency broke the news to a startled Yugoslavia and a wondering world. Eight days earlier Khrushchev had flown just as suddenly into Belgrade, under the thin pretense of taking a vacation (TIME, Oct. 1), and had remained in close conclave with Tito. The flight to Yalta provoked wide and wild speculation in the world's capitals. Western diplomats, normally an "I told you so" lot, frankly confessed bafflement. None offered a better guess as to its cause than that of one Belgrader: "Something serious is about to happen in the Communist world...
...Dual Hint. There were clues, however, as to the nature, if not the substance, of the surprise party in Yalta. In Tito's party was his handsome wife Jovanka and his burly, iron-jawed Police Boss Alexander Rankovic, a dual hint that Tito had full confidence in his personal safety. No member of the Yugoslav government or foreign office went along, a fact which underlined the significance of the fourth member of the party: mild-mannered, tough-cored Djuro Pucar, a Serbian and longtime Communist who was active in Tito's World War II partisan movement...
...claim on any territory occupied by the Soviet Union." Furthermore, announced Radio Moscow, two smaller islands that Russia had previously offered to return to Japan outright would now be returned only "on certain conditions," since Japan had apparently not appreciated Russia's "magnanimous act." Shepilov also cited Yalta, where both the U.S. and Britain agreed to let the Russians grab the Kurils as part of the Russian terms for entering into what proved to be its week-long participation in the war against Japan. Shigemitsu could only protest that Japan was not a party to Yalta. He hobbled before...
...province of Goa" to "the brink of war"--which have done far more to frighten our allies and our potential allies than to scare the Soviet Union. The President has asked for close consultation between the U.S. and Britain and France, but the Secretary of State has released the Yalta Papers, announced U.S. Middle Eastern policy, and "unleashed" Chiang Kai-shek, without much more than a glance at Western Europe...