Pay As You Go

Before a crowd of 40,000 in the port city of Pola this week, Marshall Tito delivered his most important general policy statement of the year. He said that the Yugoslav-Greek frontier will be "gradually closed."

For retreating Greek Communist guerrillas, Yugoslavia has long been a refuge from which they could later sally forth, refreshed and rearmed. Since the Cominform's cold war against Tito began a year ago, this aid has diminished but it has not ceased altogether.

Tito also revealed that Yugoslavia has been seeking loans totaling $250 million from the World Bank and other Western sources. The U.S. and Britain have demanded the closing of the Greek frontier as a prior condition to granting such loans. At Pola, Tito explained: "We are not selling our conscience and our souls." Nevertheless, it looked as if somebody was selling something--on the installment plan.

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