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Shouting Match. The revival of the bloc system brought scant comfort to one country that is perilously caught both geographically and ideologically between the two blocs. It is Yugoslavia, whose President, Marshal Josip Broz Tito, not only was the first Eastern European ruler to achieve his independence from the Soviet overlordship but also served as an inspiration to Czechoslovak Party First Secretary Alexander Dubcek in his ill-starred search to find a measure of freedom within Communism. The recent Soviet press campaign against Tito ("lover of counter-revolution") and his country is almost as bitter as the one against West...
...both Yugoslavia and Rumania, fears intensified last week that they might be the next target for Soviet oppression. Meanwhile, a new and unlikely country joined the ranks of the anxious. It was Austria, whose political neutrality was written into the 1955 treaty that ended the victorious nations' occupation of Hitler's unwilling wartime ally. Since then, the Austrians have scrupulously avoided any sort of cold war entanglements. Even so, the Soviets, angered that Austria has become a haven for Czechoslovak refugees (see following story), lashed out at the Austrians, charging, among other things, that the country...
...allies back into the fold. The device may be effective, but it clearly seeks unity at the cost of greater East-West tension. Another factor that confirms Russian determination to keep its satellites in hand is the obvious unease of many of the East European states. Rumania and Yugoslavia have both been jittery and even Albania, long unfriendly to Yugoslavia, established contacts with Belgrade as Bulgarian troops massed on the Yugoslav border and as the chief of staff of the Warsaw Pact forces paid a rushed visit to Sofia...
...enhanced its already formidable power as a huge and populous sovereign state. As the defender of Communism, moreover, the Soviet Union long could do no wrong in the eyes of its followers the world over. The image of Russia as the ideological motherland was buffeted by the defiance of Yugoslavia's Josip Broz Tito, the invasion of Hungary and the unseemly quarrel with Communist China-but the Soviets have up to now managed to maintain their ideological primacy. Now, after three weeks of continuing protest among Communists abroad over the invasion of Czechoslovakia, there is a serious question about...
Unprecedented Defiance. Russia's Czechoslovak invasion may, in fact, prove to be a watershed in the development of Communism that could surpass in importance the breakaways of Yugoslavia and China from what was a monolithic world organization at the close of World War II. In an unprecedented show of defiance, the great majority of the world's 88 Communist parties have refused to approve Moscow's action against Czechoslovakia. Albania, China's Adriatic ally, even seized on the occasion last week to announce its complete withdrawal from the Warsaw Pact...