Developing Tactics

With one hand, Tito shoved his U.S. captives across the Trieste frontier. With the other, he sweepingly beckoned six American notables "to visit the Yugoslav frontier of Greece, and such other parts of Yugoslavia as they may deem necessary, to see for themselves what the true situation is." The Americans whom Sava N. Kosanovich, Yugoslavia's Ambassador to Washington, officially invited without prior warning: former Secretary of State James F. Byrnes; former Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau Jr.; Harold E. Stassen; Dr. Harry Emerson Fosdick; John Gunther (Inside U.S.A.); Hanson W. Baldwin, N.Y. Times military analyst and frequent target of Moscow ire.

The Communist Marshal also found time for more important business. In Belgrade, before the People's Front Congress, which included delegates from Communist parties all over Europe, he revealed the latest wrinkle in international Communist tactics. It was a revival and stiffening of the People's Front strategy (i.e., Communist posturing as the great friend of democracy in league with any deluded non-Communist groups. Chief purpose: to get a lion's share in democratic governments, thus saving the chancy wear & tear of violent seizures of power).

Tito called for the unity of "progressive" forces "throughout the world" against the "international reaction headed by American financial magnates [which] is ... reviving fascism in various countries, including western Germany."

Clearly Russian strategy now called for external aggression short of war against any soft spot in the non-Communist lines, and aggression from within against any soft spot in the non-Communist head.

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