COMMUNISTS: Balkan Circus

Last week the barkers were having a picnic. It was as if Barnum & Bailey had come to the Balkans. Under the big Red top the Soviet Bear was calling the acts. In the spotlight the Cominform, nine-headed dog of the Kremlin, was beating up on Tito, Yugoslavia's own ringmaster. And the Communist puppets clapped like mad.

Was it real? Was it the McCoy? This side of the iron curtain nobody knew. But it was free and it looked like the summer's biggest show on earth.

"Teacher of Love." The surface facts were easy enough to establish. Tito, in the Cominform's book...

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