YUGOSLAVIA: In the Woods at Yalta

When Marshal Tito flew into the Crimea to take a brief "vacation" at Russia's First Party Secretary Nikita Khrushchev's sunny Yalta villa, he did not expect to meet so many old comrades. The emphasis of the eight-day talk in Nikita's parlor and in Yalta's woods and hills was on "comradeship" among the European Communist Parties. A thoughtful Tito, as he flew back to Belgrade one day last week, must have been brooding deeply about how comradely an independent Yugoslav Communist could afford to be. It was not difficult to understand why.

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