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Show A Oift In Brotherly Love All is not brotherly love behind be-hind the Iron Curtain. Premier Stalin' has a prize heretic in his midst, Tito of Yugoslavia. The source of irritation between be-tween Comrades Stalin and Tito is simple in appearance but complex com-plex in1 fact. Both Russia and Yugoslavia have Communist regimes, re-gimes, but the principal headache head-ache about the Yugoslav government, gov-ernment, according to Stalin, is that it doesn't look to Moscow Mos-cow for instructions. Instead it has adopted a habit very distasteful, dis-tasteful, to thf Kremlin, of do- ing what it pleases anytime it pleases. This want of restraint on the part of Tito has naturally placed Russia in an embarrassing position, po-sition, because it is not considered consid-ered polite for a satellite to tell its master to go to blazes. Comrade Stalin has been trying try-ing desperately, ever since the end of the war, to build a strong Iron' Curtain around Russia And "strength" necessitates complete com-plete obedience to Moscow of all states within the Soviet orbit, or-bit, including Yugoslavia, Hungary, Hun-gary, Czechoslovakia, Bulgaria, et al. If Russia is to show a united front to the world, she expects and must have complete obedience on the part of her satellites. So " far only Yugoslavia has dared to kick off the chains. Apparently Tito is about as strong a personality as Stalin. He has set up his own Communist Commu-nist state, making it conform to Moscow standards only as it pleases him, and which draws its strength from Yugoslav patriotism, pa-triotism, not Russian influence. Tito is trying to make Yugoslavia Yugo-slavia a power in its own right, and in the meantime is using his precarious situation to scare the western powers into making deals with him. A smart boy, he knows the west will do every thing possible to assist engineering engineer-ing a giant gap in the Iron Curtain. Cur-tain. Words have been flowing fast, hot, and heavy between Moscow Mos-cow and Belgrade. Tito's name is as black as Hitler's ever was in the Russian press. Insults are monopolizing most of the time and space in the . propaganda machinery of both countries, Russia has moved troops close to the Yugoslav border, and has threatened repeatedly to clean out that "Tito-inspired bastian of reaction." The supreme insult to a sensitive sen-sitive Russian temperament was the General Assembly's action in voting Yugoslavia a member of the Security Council to represent rep-resent 'eastern Europe. This was truly the last straw Stalin now finds a heretic as Security Council representative of orthodox ortho-dox eastern European Communism. Commun-ism. The patience of Comrade Stalin Sta-lin with Comrade Tito must be worn to a frazzle. |