MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD, OREGON
Kremlin Appears To Be Wooing Its Fellow-Communists, Not Commanding
(Editors note: A major I "It dominates the eastern I Yugoslavs, as "revisinnUf i irnm .h k n .ji , ur .... ., " O
THURSDAY. JUNE 14. 1962
cnangu m the relations of
Soviet Russia with its satel
lite nations and other com
munist countries seems to
be taking place. The Krem
lin appears to be wooing
its fellow-communists these
days, instead of command
ing them. In this dispatch a
veteran Motcow corres
pondent throws light on
what may be one of the
most significant communist
political developments of
recent years)
By ROBERT KORENGOLD
United Press International
Moscow-H!Pl-A Balkan di
plomat in Moscow gestured to
the map on his office wall.
"Here is Yugoslavia," he
said, "Key to the Balkans.
Applications Being
Taken for Officer
Young men between 21 and
30 years old who are high
school graduates are eligible
to apply for a position on th,e
Medford police force.
Applications are now being
accepted, according to Chief
ot Police Charles P. Champ
lin.
Starting Salary after July
1 will be S370 per month with
periodic merit raises for 40
hour work week. Uniforms
and equipment are furnished
by the department.
Other benefits include two
weeks paid vacation annually,
a minimum of two weeks paid
sick leave, and retirement ben
efits.
Interested persons should
apply in person at the police
department in the city hall,
Fifth st. and Central ave.
Camps To Provide
Outdoor Experience
Boys day camps sponsored
by the YMCA this year will
be June 18 to 23 and June
25 to 30. The camps are oper
ated to give boys in the first
and second grades camping
experience.
Hours for the camps will be
9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday
through Thursday, and from
2:30 p.m. Friday until noon
Saturday for an overnight
camping trip.
The camp site is located on
the Applegate river two miles
west of Ruch. Programs are
planned for each day.
Further information may
be obtained by calling the
YMCA, 772-6295.. . - ...
Kennedy Makes Quip
About Ev Dirksen
Washington IUPL President
Kennedy quipped Tuesday
that he would start taking
Senate Republican Leader
Everett Dirksen, 111., with him
on trips around the world.
The President noted at a
luncheon for visiting Pana
manian President Roberto F.
Chiari that Chiari had brought
with him Foreign Minister
Galileo Solis, opposition lead
er in Panama.
"The bi-partisan position is
strong here," Kennedy jok
ingly observed, "and I will
take Everett with me when
ever I go out of the United
States in an attempt to follow
your example."
La Prensa Printers'
Strike Is Settled
Buenos Aires -WPD- The il
legal printers' strike that had
kept the big independent
newspaper La Prensa off the
stands for four days was
settled Tuesday night, and the
newspaper reappeared Wed
nesday. The strikers did not return
to work until 8 p.m., not al
lowing time to get out a com
plete edition. Wednesday's
paper earned the normal ed
itorial content, but it contain
ed no classified advertisements.
AROUSES NATIVES
Des Moines, Iowa - HTD -Albert
A. Payne, a former
Washington lobbyist who said
he came here to "wake up the
natives" to the "dangers" of
federal aid, had them thor
ouoghly aroused Wednesday.
He told the local traffic com
mittee Des Moines drivers
were the "rudest In the
world."
STRIKE CONTINUES
Eugene - UTIi - Two super
markets remain closed here
after a federal mediator failed
in attempts to bring members
of the striking Bakers Union
and officials of McKay's Mar
kets and the Rolling-Pin Bak
ery together Tuesday.
TO RESIGN POST
Washington - tUPIi - Win
throp G- Brown was reported
today to be resigning as U.S.
ambassador to Laos. Informed
source? said he would be
given a high post at the na
tional War College in Wash
ington. NO CUSTOMERS
S;. A'.'oni, Vt. - 'tTt - John
R Finn says business is so
bad tha- hit e'aplit.nn:.t u
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shores of the Aegean sea.
"It borders on seven differ
ent countries Italy, Austria,
Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria,
Greece and Albania.
"Whatever the Russians
want to do in the Balkans,
they must reckon with the
Yugoslavs."
In the last year it has be
come more and more appar
ent that Soviet premier Ni
kita Khrushchev is indeed
reckoning with the Yugoslavs
-Not only as a Balkan power,
but as a voice of authority
among the neutrals and an
important moral ally in the
Kremlin's conflict with China
and Albania.
To Sell Bulgars
It now appears highly prob
able that Khrushchev's trip to
Bulgaria last month was de
signed, in large part, to sell
the Bulgars no great lovers
of the Yugoslavs the new
"soft line" toward Belgrade.
His forthcoming trip this
month to Romania w h i c h
has similar, although less
strong anti-Yugoslav views
may well have the same ob
jective. So far, this seems to be the
most logical reason why the
Soviet premier, beset at home
by such problems as Berlin,
atom testing, destalinization
and a grave farm crisis,
should suddenly take time off
to visit .two of the most docile
and apparently most uncon
troversial of the Soviet satel
lites.
The premier may drop some
hints about the real purpose
of his trip during his ex
pected series of marathon
speeches in Romania, which
he last visited in June, 1960.
uave Indication
It was in such a speech at
Varna, Bulgaria, May 18, that
he gave one of the best indica
tions so far of the prevailing
winds between Moscow and
Belgrade.
"At one time our relations
with Yugoslavia were tense,"
he said. "Now," he claimed,
"they are normal, I should
even say good. Our positions
coincide on many interna
tional questions pertaining to
securing and consolidating
peace."
If the message was clear for
the Bulgars, it was apparent
ly a bit hard to swallow at
once. Noticeably, no reference
to the Yugoslavs was made in
the Soviet-Bulgarian commu
nique issued at the end of
Khrushchev's trip.
The premier may find simi
lar reluctance on the part of
the Romanians. But :it is
doubtful if any foot-dragging
in Sofia and Bucharest will
slow down the move toward
tighter Soviet-Yugoslav co
operation. '
Invites Tito
Khrushchev was scarcely
back from his Bulgarian trip
last month when it was re
ported on fairly good autho
rity from Belgrade that Mar
shal Tito had been invited to
spend his vacation in the So
viet Union, possibly next
autumn. It appears probable
that even before then Soviet
President Leonid Brezhnev
will visit Yugoslavia. Techni
cally Brezhnev will be pick
ing up an eight-year-old invi
tation given by Tito to for
mer Soviet president Klimen-
ti Voroshilov.
The invitation was accept
ed at that time but put in
cold storage when relations
between the two nations' com
munist parties worsened in
1957.
Other indicators of the
changing Soviet-Yugoslav
climate are Soviet Foreign
Minister Andrei Gromyko's
recent trip to Belgrade (in re
turn for a visit to Moscow
last summer by Yugoslav
Foreign Minister Koca Popo
icv), and the visit of a high
level Yukoslav parliamentary
delegation to the USSR this
month.
Presumably one aim of the
new Russian line is to ensure
Yugoslavia's role as a non
aligned buffer lying between
NATO-member Italy and such
Socialist bloc nations as Hun
gary, Romania and Bulgaria.
And Russia's leaders also may
want to make sure Tito does
not swing too far into the
western camp.
Doubtful
It is highly doubtful that
the Kremlin expects of the
Yugoslavs would accept a
realignment of Belgrade with
the Moscow-directed socialist
camp.
Significantly, in this re
spect, the current Soviet
Yugoslav thaw in state rela
tions has not ended the quar
rel between the two nations'
Communist parties. On a
party and ideological level
the Soviets still criticize the
Yugoslavs "revisionist"
views.
The impact of the "soft
line'' toward Belgrade goes,
nevertheless, far beyond the
Balkans.
Not only in the West, but
certainly among the Socialist
Bine nations both in and out
of the Balkan. Soviet effort
f. pprochmnt with the
Yevtitfi have been viewed
direct ila? at (he Chi
lli Peiping i th
Yugoslavs, as "revisionist"
heretics, are to be shunned
and condemned.
Oddly enough, Khru
shchev's wooing of Yugosla
via is almost the mirror
image of Peiping5s support of
Tito's Balkan Neighbor. Al
bania, in that tiny nation's
dispute with the Kremlin.
Now Muted
The violent Russian attacks
of last fall on Albania have
now been muted, perhaps as
part of an agreement between
Moscow and Peiping to cease
publicly aggravating their
their quarrel. But silence
from the Kremlin is no indi
cation there is any lessening
of the enmity between Khru
shchev and Albanian Premier
Mehmet Shehu and party
leader Enver Hoxha.
If Khrushchev can swing
Bulgaria, Romania and Yugo
slavia's other Socialist Bloc
neighbor, Hungary, to the
path of friendlier relations
with Albania's arch-enemies,
the Yugoslavs, then he will
have isolated even further the
leaders in Tirana.
Despite its feud with the
Soviet leadership, Albania
apparently still retains its
formal membership in tlu
Warsaw pact and the Social-
ist bloc "co u n c i 1 for mu
t u a 1 economic assistance"
(COMECON).
Khrushchev may have dis
cussed during his Bulgarian
trip, and may discuss in Ro
mania, the possibility of ex
pelling Albania from both
organizations. Diplomats in
Moscow are inclined to be
lieve, however, that he will
let the matter lie.
In Bulgaria, Khrushchev
noticeably abstained from any
mention of the Albanians in
public, although it would
have been the perfect plat
form for a new attack on
had choosed to
them if he
make it.
Day Ii Gone
"The day is gone when the
Kremlin can dictate internal
policy to the Albanians or any
other bloc country," said one
western diplomat based in
Moscow. "And Khrushch.-v
knosvs it better than anyone."
While Yugoslavia is be
lieved to hold the key to
Khrushchev's apparent new
interest in the Balkans, there
are other factors at play. One
appears to be genuine Russian
concern about bolstering the
unity of the Warsaw pact
alliance's southern flank. When Khrushchev last went
against what the Russians re
gard as continued danger
from NATO bases in Greece
and Turkey.
The destalinization cam
paign relaunched at the 22nd
party congress undoubtedly
has produced the same adjust
ment difficulties in the bloc
nations as it has in the So
viet Union. So it is not ex
cluded that Khrushchev's
Romanian and Bulgarian
trips are designed in part to
check up on progress and if
necessary explain to just what
lengths destalinization should
properly be carried.
to Bucharest in June, I960, it
was ostensibly to attend the
third congress of the Roma
nian workers parlies. Actual
ly the meeting was major con
ference of European and
Asian Communist party lead
es minus the Yugoslavs at
which Khrushchev tried to
rally support for Moscow in
the then still hushed-up
struggle with Peiping.
When Khrushchev goes
back to Romania this time, he
may well be looking again for
support this time for the
new "soft-line'' toward Yugoslavia.
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He also announced a 63
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ings for the previous fiscal
year were S7.393.900.
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