15. Editorial Note

From May 26 to June 2, a top-level Soviet delegation, headed by First Secretary Khrushchev and including First Deputy Chairman Mikoyan and Chairman Bulganin, visited Yugoslavia in an attempt to narrow Soviet differences with the Tito government. On his arrival at the airport on May 26, Khrushchev apologized for past outlawry of Yugoslavia from the Cominform and blamed former Minister of Internal Affairs Beriya for the split. Khrushchev called for closer ties between the Yugoslav and Soviet Union’s Communist Parties and admitted later in the visit that there were “different forms of socialism.”