STALINâS PROBLEM CHILD How dare Tito talk back to Moscow? Why doesn't Stalin step on him? A reporter in Yugoslavia examines the scandal in the Communist nursery November 1 1948 ALEXANDER KENDRICK STALINâS PROBLEM CHILD ALEXANDER KENDRICK How dare Tito talk back to Moscow? Why doesn't Stalin step on him? A reporter in Yugoslavia examines the scandal in the Communist nursery THE champagne flowed, the military band played stirring airs and the fountain in the form of a large white bear splashed in the Balkan moonlight. It was a gala evening at the Yugoslav Officersâ Club, on Marshal Tito Boulevard in Belgrade. Important personages from 10 countries, attending the Danube Conference, were the guests of honor at a glittering reception, and of them all the man from Soviet Russia, Deputy Foreign Minister Andrei Y. Vishinsky, was the most important.