Word: yugoslavic
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Born: 1912, of peasant family, in a village close to the Yugoslav border...
...second week back from the Communist conclave in the Crimea, stayed out of reach in his White Palace. But an official spokesman of his government declared: "No decisions were made in the Khrushchev-Tito talks [which were] of a purely private character." Private or not, a lot of Yugoslav Communists were being told, officially and in gossip, what had happened at Yalta. "There was one unexpected thing," a Tito penman confessed in the official party organ Borba. "The letter circulated [by the Soviet Communists] to the [satellite] Communist parties . . . expressed the opinion [that] our country and its leadership...
...That Dog." Rank-and-file Yugoslav Communists were getting an even more' sensational line on the talks. This was that there was a definite split in the top Soviet hierarchy, with pro-Titoists Khrushchev, Bulganin and Foreign Minister Dmitry Shepilov ranged against such anti-Titoists as Presidium Members Molotov, Kaganovich, Suslov and Soviet President Voroshilov. At a recent plenum of the Central Committee in Moscow, according to the story being circulated among the Belgrade Communists, Molotov (downgraded from Foreign Minister at the time of Tito's visit to the Soviet Union last June) had attacked Yugoslav Vice President...
Unhelping Hand. In sum, what the rank-and-file Yugoslav Communists were being told about the Tito-Khrushchev talks was that Tito had not been success ful in strengthening Khrushchev's hand at Yalta. There was even speculation in Belgrade that Khrushchev, fighting a formidable opposition in his own party, might not remain long in power...
While all these down-the-line explanations were reassuring to Yugoslav Communists, they also performed another function. Cordially leaked to newsmen, they established Marshal Tito firmly in his role of rugged independent. Coming at a moment when the U.S. was deciding what further aid should be given to Tito, they seemed just a little too neatly tailored, as if designed for Western consumption. The world was still waiting for a full account of the strange meeting from Tito himself...