Foreign Office wastebaskets in Eastern Europe overflowed last week; Communists were tearing up treaties. Stalin began by formally denouncing Russia's treaty of mutual assistance with Tito's Yugoslavia. Sensing the Kremlin's Tito-indigestion, Russia's satellites dutifully burped: one by one they denounced the treaties with Yugoslavia which had been fanfared to the world in 1946 and 1947.
Russia annulled her treaty with Yugoslavia on the ground that the confessions of Laszlo Rajk, onetime Communist Hungarian Foreign Minister, in the Budapest show trial, had proved the existence of a Tito-U.S. conspiracy against Russia.*
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