YUGOSLAVIA: On the High Wire

Suitably clad in resplendent attire, the world's two great high-wire artists met last week in Belgrade. Clad in gleaming white jodhpurs and close-fitting achkan (three-quarter length jacket) of cinnamon homespun. India's arch-equilibrist Jawaharlal Nehru had come to return a visit paid him last winter by Yugoslavia's Josip Broz Tito, a man even more skilled at walking the tightrope of neutralism. There was no real business to be transacted between them, but at least the two could compare notes and talk about their favorite topic—advantageous coexistence.

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