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University Daily Kansan
Wednesday, Oct. 10, 1962
Tito's Position Clear And Still Independent
A UPI Foreign News Analysis
As a Communist, Yugoslavia's Marshal Tito always has made it clear that in case of a war between East and West, he would be on the side of the Soviet Union.
It was this bit of independence which induced the United States to extend to Tito over the years aid totalling around a billion dollars. It also led Congress in the most recently passed foreign aid bill to continue President Kennedy's discretionary powers to give him more aid in the form of food, medicine and clothing.
But as a Yugoslav he also has insisted that Yugoslavia would attain the Communist utopia by its own path, independent of Moscow.
AS FOR THE Kremlin, it expelled Tito from the Cominform in 1948 and he remained in the deep freeze until the Bulganin-Khrushchev visit to Belgrade in 1955. In that visit the Kremlin leaders apologized for past treatment.
Things seemed better for awhile but then came 1956 and Soviet intervention in the Hungarian revolt. Tito denounced the action as a "fatal error" and joined the United States in backing a resolution in the United Nations demanding immediate evacuation of Soviet troops from Hungary.
Back he went into the Kremlin freezer.
THERE THE situation remained until about a year ago when Khrushchev's quarrel with Peiping apparently led him to decide on a new effort to consolidate European Communist nations in an economic and political bloc.
The result was last week's visit to Belgrade of Soviet President Lonid I. Brezhnew.
Advance reports said one of Brezhnev's assignments would be to line up Yugoslav support for the Kremlin's announced plan to sign a separate peace treaty with East Germany.
The final communique indicated failure, not only on this assignment but on others as well.
It called for a German peace treaty but made no mention of a separate treaty with East Germany.
Peace Officers Meet for Seminar
The second annual Burglary and Larceny Seminar for Kansas peace officers began here today and will continue through Friday.
Officers who will attend the meeting were chosen by a special committee from applicants throughout the state. The committee tries to choose officers from different geographical parts of the state.
The seminar will be limited to regular participants and selected "observers."
The seminar is being sponsored by the KU Governmental Research Center, Kansas Bureau of Investigation, Kansas Peace Officers Assn., KU Law School and the University Extension Service.
Earthquakes Rock Italy
SIENA, Italy—(UPI)—A series of earthquakes, one of them violent enough to send people running into the streets, rumbled through this Tuscan Hill area yesterday but there were no reports of damage or injuries.
The quakes were centered in an area about five miles northwest of Siena.
TITO FREQUENTLY has denounced the rearming of West Germany, but he also has declared that any treaty should be signed by all the parties of World War II.
The communique also called for an improvement in United Nations "activity" but made no mention of Khrushev's three-headed troika plan to reorganize the office of Secretary General.
In this, Tito apparently retained his previous position that he could not agree to "create chaos inside the United Nations."
If Brezhnev's trip was designed as another apology to Tito, it does not seem to have been accepted too whole-heartedly.
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