Keeping Tito Afloat: The United States, Yugoslavia, and the Cold War.(Review)

Lorraine M. Lee's Keeping Tito A float: The United States, Yugoslavia, and the Cold War (University Park: Pennsylvania State U.P., 1997; pp. xviii + 246. $40) is a study of the fluctuations in American-Yugoslav relations following the Cominform split until the end of the Eisenhower administration. It is based on American official sources and interviews with eyewitnesses. The principal theme is the tension which arose from the contradictions of a foreign policy which premised on the one hand that the United States should pursue a strategy of exploiting the inherent fissures in the multi-ethnic communist bloc, while on the other should fulfil its historic mission to defeat …