Introduction: Italy as Breakwater -- Orient Express -- Chinks in the Curtain, Plus Certain Observations at Large -- Yugoslavia, the How and Why -- Tito -- The Cominform Rupture -- Men around Tito -- From Zagreb to Budapest -- Other Leaders, Other Satellites -- The American War in Greece -- Talking Turkey -- Hungarian New World -- The Man Who Rules Hungary -- The Czechoslovak Tragedy -- Warsaw Redivivus -- More about the Poles -- Vienna Still Alive -- Confusions and Perplexities in Germany -- Footnote on France and England -- Conclusion: Iron Curtain and Russian Policy.