AID, MOSCOW STYLE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP78-01634R000100060009-6
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 6, 1998
• Sequence Number: 9
• Publication Date: May 29, 1958
• Content Type: NSPR

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Hard. on the heels of Soviet Pre-
mier Nikita S. Khrushchev's effusive
birthday greetings to Yugoslav Presi-
dent Tito comes. the announcement
that Moscow is postponing for five
years a $285,000,000 credit to Yugo-
slavia.
This is the first substantive step
the Kremlin has taken to back up its
month-long, fulminations against
Yugoslavia's refusal to acknowledge .
Moscow as the ideological and politi-
cal fountainhead of the Communist
camp.
It implements an implied threat
posed in a Pravda editorial May, 9.
The Pravda writer, stung by a Yugo-
slav hint that the Soviets tried to
"exploit" Yugoslavia in the past, said:
"We do not enforce anything on
anyone. Neither our state system,
nor the forms of social life, nor our
ideology. Neither do we enforce our
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friendship on anyone, nor our eco-
nomic aid."
In the ceaseless propaganda cam-
paign which Moscow and its satel-
lites direct toward the non-Commu-
nist world the Communists have de-
claimed mightily against the "aid
with strings" which they charge the
United States with giving, and have
loudly trumpeted the alleged disin-
terestedness of their own aid to other
countries.
Now the shoe is on the other foot.
The Soviets give aid to India, Indo-
nesia, and other underdeveloped
countries even though they are "non-
aligned" in the East-West cold war.
But in Yugoslavia's case "aid" and
"strings" seem to go together just
like horse and carriage, to paraphrase
a popular song. Since Marshal Tito
insists on being his own horse, the
Soviets have apparently decided to
postpone delivery of the carriage.
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