Tito Visits With Greek Royalty

...That is Greek policy as of now, and I firmly believe that all the bitter wrangling over Cyprus has not weakened this position...

...This statement puts India in a difficult situation in view of the wellknown ties of India with Middle Eastern countries, against whom British interests clash, and in view of the fact that, according to the world press...

...In other words, the Nehru Government implies that it would be more inclined to support Cypriote selfdetermination—tantamount to union with Greece—if Athens pledged to throw British bases off Cyprus...

...during the guerrilla war...

...The foregoing Mediterranean social note adds to the steadily growing picture of Tito as an influential world figure...

...Tito might push with more subtlety and skill to further prove the validity of his position: Neutralism has its practical uses...

...The Yugoslav chief, now considered a friend by Athens, may attempt to succeed where Shepilov failed TITO VISITS WITH GREEK ROYALTY By Martin Ebon Marshal Josip Broz-Tito, President of the Federated Peoples' Republic of Yugoslavia, ex-rebel, exStalinist and probably one of the world's most successful diplomatic tightrope walkers, has just spent a week vacationing with King Paul and Queen Frederika of Greece at their Mon Repos palace on the island of Corfu...

...Albania and Bulgaria were unsuccessful...

...Whereas years of International Red Cross efforts to return these children to their parents from Czechoslovakia...

...In doing so...

...Nevertheless...

...This happened last month, and the Greeks were chagrined that Belgrade had given these Communists, or ex-Communists...

...Thivy said the same thing more circumspectly but with equal clarity, as follows: "India is always favorably disposed in the matter of application of the principle of self-determination among peoples under foreign rule...

...His stay with the Greek royal family was not, however, entirely of a social nature...

...The "big-power blocs" are more or less alike, and it's wiser not to be deeply committed either way...

...Ambassador John Thivy told the Greeks that India cannot commit herself to backing self-determination for Cyprus during this fall's United Nations session...

...They are hurt about the United States' confused neutralism on this question...

...Tito has managed to gain fabulous successes on the international scene...

...When this sentence appeared too blunt...

...Also, while Turkey and Greece became estranged over the Cyprus issue, and particularly after the gruesome September 6 riots of last year, Yugoslavia maintained close contact with Athens within the framework of the Balkan Alliance (which includes Turkey...

...You can take without really giving much in return...

...In a truly masterful bit of diplomatic mischief...

...Brioni...

...Perhaps he doesn't quite know himself...

...A Greek Parliamentary delegation, however, will go to the Soviet Union in August...

...Since then, Tito has traveled quite a bit...

...Most Greek officials and opinionmakers probably feel that Yugoslavia has been Greece's most loyal friend in recent months...

...They were not, incidentally, and must now either remain in Yugoslavia or go back to Poland...

...Tito is a bridge to Moscow—a drawbridge, to be exact, but a bridge nevertheless...

...Poland...

...Martin Ebon, who has just returned from on extensire tour of Greece, is author of World Communism Today...

...As originally worded, the Indian Ambassador's statement noted with dismay that "Greece assures Britain that she may continue to maintain her bases in the island after integration into Greece...

...But Yugoslavia has been cordial in dealing with the tragic matter of Greek children who...

...just a day before the Russian's visit, this lovely spot was the scene of Tito's meeting with two neutralist comrades-in-arms: India's Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru and Egypt's President Gamal Abdel Nasser...

...And all this has been done without too much propaganda for '"Yugoslav-Hellenic brotherhood" or anything else that might offend the sensitive and proud Greeks...

...While reposing at Mon Repos, Tito was renewing old acquaintances...

...later, a trade delegation will visit Moscow to discuss expansion of the present export-import agreement...

...The Cyprus question, however, is complicated, and it has become even more difficult after a statement by Sir Anthony Eden to the effect that the bases in Cyprus are there to protect British interests in Middle East oil...

...the Nehru Government out-Greeked the Greeks and out-Cyprioted the Cypriots...

...Officially, he only dropped in to "pay his respects" to the Marshal, but it is a safe asumption that the two men reviewed the Balkan situation...

...he has visited the town still called Stalingrad and has been given banquets in Moscow...

...Yugoslavia's only blunder has been the admittance of some 50 former Greek Communist guerrillas from Poland, with the intention of having them admitted into Greece...

...The Arab nationalists, with Saudi Arabian oil money and Nasser's ideological leadership, find Tito a convenient success symbol...

...Not that India doesn't know, of course, that even the suggestion of such a possibility would eliminate all chances of persuading Britain to change her policy on the island...

...had been kidnaped by the Communist armies and exiled to various countries behind the Iron Curtain...

...regardless of what may be hidden inside him, right now the Marshal's ample exterior is reminiscent of a Trojan Horse...

...But a lot of Stalinism has gone down the drain since Tito's break with Moscow in '48 and the simultaneous peteringout of the Communist guerrilla war in Greece...

...or Titoesque...

...Moscow may be trying to reach countries and people that remember today's Soviet "collective leadership" as yesterday's Stalin henchmen...

...State Department notes to Athens and Ankara, which upbraided both in identical language for the Turkish riots...

...They are also angry at the Turks: the vicious and bloody anti-Greek riots in Turkey last September reopened wounds that had healed only after much care and patience...

...Tito, however, may have given Nehru the benefit of his much closer knowledge of Greece and Cyprus...

...Nor has Tito, in his recent dealings with Athens, shown such Nehruesque touches as last month's statement by India's Ambassador to Greece...

...Greek Foreign Minister Averoff recently told this writer in Athens that Greece "welcomes close understanding with all nations that respect her sovereignty, but will not move one step from her commitments within the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, nor will it retreat one inch from its alliance with the Western nations, above all with the United States...

...Hungary...

...In any event, American support of Tito makes it easier for the Belgrade Strong Man to be socially acceptable to the Greeks...

...Tito himself, of course, is about as pure a product of the original Stalinist "cult of the individual" as one can find anywhere on earth...

...Yugoslavia proved cooperative...

...He made his first visit to the Greek royal family more than a year ago, and King Paul and Queen Frederika returned the call with a trip to Yugoslavia a few months later...

...using its good offices to back Greek moves in the United Nations, and generally acting like a friend in need...

...Tito's drawbridge functions are doubly important when one notes the relative coolness with which Moscow's new Foreign Minister, Dmitri T. Shepilov, was received in Athens during his "unofficial" visit there early this month...

...Now that the Soviet regime has avowedly gone more or less "Titoist," it is hard to tell where its politicoeconomic and ideological frontiers lie...

...The Greeks feel betrayed by the West—mainly by their old friends the British, of course—on the vexing Cyprus issue...

...On the very eve of his July 23 arrival on Corfu, Tito spent two days with Soviet Deputy Premier Anastas I. Mikoyan...

...The Weltanschauung of Nehru and Tito is certainly close enough to suit Tito...

...But what Shepilov could not accomplish...

...commiserating with them over the inept U.S...

...Burma and now Ceylon reflect a blend of nationalism and what passes for "Marxist socialism" that can be called Titoist...

...Practically all displaced children were returned to Greece from Yugoslav soil...

...His wooing of the Communist regimes in Poland, Hungary and the other Iron Curtain countries proceeds with patience, determination and excellent personal knowledge of trends and individuals...

...On July 25, Premier Constantine Karamanlis joined the Mon Repos party...

...Indonesia...

...Through him...

...India used this to play coy with the Greeks...

...and by wining, dining and flattering him...

...The Tito regime, on the other hand, has stood by the Greeks: backing Greek Cypriote aspirations for unih with Greece...

...They remember full well that Tito's regime acted as tactical headquarters and operations base for the Communist guerrillas who tried to take over Greece by open warfare from 1947 to 1949...

...For while Athens firmly maintains that British bases would stay untouched on Cyprus even under Greek rule...

...This was...

...as the Yugoslav President himself told it with a wry grin, merely a chance for Mikoyan to enjoy a few vacation days on Tito's private island preserve...

...While enjoying the precarious appreciation of both Moscow and Washington, the tanned statesman in the white flannel suit exercises a curious attraction on oddly assorted people and nations...

...Rumania...

...but both Karamanlis and Averoff answered an invitation to Moscow by saying that a few outstanding issues need to be settled before they can undertake such a pilgrimage...

...transit visas—they were traveling on Polish passports—without finding out whether they were acceptable to the Greeks...

...We can't be sure just what kind of game he is playing...

...Whether as enemy or friend, he has shown an almost instinctive understanding for Greek feelings...

...Shepilov saw Karamanlis, Greek Foreign Minister Evanghelos Averoff and other officials...

...Britain may continue to maintain a military base in Cvprus even after Cyprus is integrated into Greece...