Word: yugoslavia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Early this month, first stopping off for a talk with Khrushchev in the Crimea, Marshal Zhukov boarded the cruiser Kuibyshev for a long-planned visit to Yugoslavia and Albania. Clad in rough green hunting suit, he went shooting mountain goats with Tito (he bagged four, Tito one). Though Tito took the step of establishing diplomatic relations with East Germany while he was in the country, Zhukov seemed unconcerned about such political matters. In his one big speech he boasted of "our first-class modern arms, including atomic and hydrogen weapons . . . the intercontinental ballistic rocket." Barging slowly through Albania, he inspected...
...State Department's immediate reaction to Marshal Tito's recognition of the East German government has been a familiarly negative one. The prospect of cutting off aid to Yugoslavia is unfortunately on its way toward becoming a reality...
Such a measure would be a retaliatory one and would result only in further alienating Tito. It would, moreover, be an admission of the complete bankruptcy of our policy in Yugoslavia, where we have attempted to keep the breach between Moscow and Belgrade open...
...course, if the State Department does decide to cut off economic help to Yugoslavia, Tito will have no alternative but the Soviets and their satellites. The Yugoslav economy is already showing signs of strain--the five year plan is not working as well as was expected--and some sort of financial security is needed to keep Tito in control. Since at present there seems to be no organized alternative to Tito except a regime even more definitely committed to Moscow, the U.S. has little choice but to help Tito and hope for the best...
While this attitude is not a particularly positive one, it appears the most expedient at the moment. Without Tito in Yugoslavia the USSR would be certain of its much-sought-after Mediterranean port, and the free world would lose a valuable, if not respected friend...