TITO AND KHRUSHCHEV

Created: 11/20/1957

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INFORMATION REPORT

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AMBASSADOR, WHO WAS WAITING IN MOSCOW FOR THE CELEBRATIONOVEMBER, FLEW BACK TO BELGRADE TO SEE TITO, BUT THE LATTER REFUSED TO RECEIVE HIM AND SEN? HIM TO EDVARD KAKDELJ. YUGOSLAVIA IS TRYING TO KEEP RELATIONS WITH THE SOVIET UNION FRIENDLY AM) CORRECT, BUT IT IS DIFFICULT, AND RELATIONS ARE HOOL AT

YUGOSLAV GOVERNMENT WAS NOT PLEASED BY THE APPEARANCES LOT AS THE

"HATCHET MAN" IN THE ZHUKOV AFFAIR.^YUGOSLAV OFFICIALS HAD NO ADVANCE KNOWLEDGE OF WHAT WAS COMING. THEY DID NOT LIKEWIFT RISE, BUT THZY WERE EQUALLY DISPLEASED BY THE WAY THAT HE WAS DROPPED. THEY SAY THEY HAVEONG TIMETALINIST, AND THEY DISLIKE HIM ALMOST AS MUCH A3 THEY DISLIKE MOLOTOV; THEREFORE THEY ARE UPSET BY HIS APPEARANCE AS KHRUSHCHEV'S RIGHT-HAND MAH.

WAS NOT THE WAY THAT KHRUSHCHEV HAD PROMISED TITO THAT THINGS WOULD WORK OUT

IN TEE SOVIET COMMUNIST PARTY. AFFAREVTLY KHRUSHCHEV HAD PROMISED

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