GREAT BRITAIN: Heretic at the Palace

Marshal Tito's relations with royalty, never exactly chummy, came to a blunt and seemingly final halt in 1945, when he told young King Peter, in effect, to stay the blazes out of Yugoslavia or he would chop his royal head off. But last week the marshal slipped into his blue and scarlet commander in chief's uniform, stepped into a cocoon of policemen, Scotland Yard agents and Yugoslav bodyguards, and took himself off to Buckingham Palace for lunch with King Peter's distant cousin, Her Majesty Elizabeth II.

For five dashing, bulletproofed days, the Communist dictator of Yugoslavia was the guest of anti-Communist...

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