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...matter of fact, the situation in Greece was easier. The Greek government, with U.S. help, did defeat the Red guerrillas-but only after Marshal Tito closed the Yugoslav borders to Communist supplies after his epic quarrel with Russia's Stalin. The other great victories over Red guerrillas took place in similar isolation...
Officially, Gromyko's visit to Yugoslavia was in return for a visit to Moscow last summer by Yugoslav Foreign Minister Koca Popovic. Punctiliously, the government newspaper Politika gave Gromyko's arrival precisely the same space that Izvestia had allotted to Popovic. But there was more to Gromyko's appearance in Belgrade than such formalities indicated. On the government level, Soviet-Yugoslav relations have become steadily warmer, even though party propagandists still practice the name-calling inspired by Tito's 1948 split with Stalin. Khrushchev, faced with the new threat of a more serious break with...
Innovations Fail. But if the Soviets need Yugoslavia's political aid, Yugoslavia now badly needs Soviet economic aid. Cut off both from Western Europe's Common Market and Eastern Europe's trade bloc, Comecon, the Yugoslav economy is on the point of collapse. Said one official of the Yugoslav National Bank last week: "We have more than $30 million worth of outstanding bills than we can pay. Our only prayer is that they don't all come in at once...
Gromyko's chat may have paid off. Said one leading Yugoslav official after Gromyko's departure: "If we had to make formal application either to the Common Market or to Comecon, we would apply for full membership in Comecon, with the full knowledge of all the political and economic meaning of such a move...
Djilas' latest book, Conversations with Stalin, is painfully embarrassing to Tito. Any revelation of intimate Kremlin secrets might upset delicate Soviet-Yugoslav relations. The book discloses details of Tito's plan to move two army divisions into neighboring Albania and take over the Communist satellite. In January 1948, Djilas reports, Stalin enthusiastically supported the scheme, told the author: "You ought to swallow up Albania, the sooner the better."* But a few days later, the Soviet dictator changed his mind, fearing Tito's increased influence in the Balkans. Hastily, Stalin sent a telegram to Belgrade warning that...