Dear Editor
DEAR EDITOR KHRUSHCHEV There is no question in my mind that Richard Lowenlhal is absolutely correct in his reply to Myron Rush (NL, February 9). The "secret speech" at the 20th Party Congress was...
...I was told that Yugoslav diplomatic posts throughout the world had been sent a full report of the Khrushchev-Tito conversations...
...Nevertheless, my Yugoslav informant said his Government believed that "startling changes" would shortly be seen in the Soviet orbit...
...Since I was privy at the time to this information, I take it there was then no intent on Tito's part to keep the report secret...
...New York City ARNOLD BEICHMAN...
...4. An end to lingering "Stalinist" language and ideology, such as attacks on "imperialist powers" then still to be found in the Soviet press and other publications...
...3. Re-establishment of normal relations between Yugoslavia and other Eastern countries now satellites...
...Lowenthal offers in substantiation of his view the Khrushchev conference with satellite leaders on his return from Belgrade in 1955...
...Khrushchev reportedly even told Tito that Sulin's mummy in the Red Square mausoleum might one day disappear...
...What impressed me about the Yugoslav view was that although Tito had been impressed with Khrushchev's revelations about Stalin's tyranny, Yugoslavia would only be convinced that the Soviet line had changed when these "deeds" took place: 1. Dissolution of the Cominform and the World Federation of Trade Unions...
...The "secret speech" at the 20th Party Congress was not forced upon a "reluctant" Nikita Khrushchev...
...I can offer in substantiation a report I received in Vienna from a Yugoslav Government official in July 1955, concerning Khrushchev's conversations with Marshal Tito earlier...
...He told me that Khrushchev had told Tito stories about life under Stalin which Khrushchev later repeated in his 1956 speech...
...2. Removal of Soviet occupying troops from the satellites...
...rehabilitation of Marshal Tukhachevsky, Lasdo Rajk, Traiko Rostov...
Vol. 42 • March 1959 • No. 9
