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Press, Volume LXXXII, Issue 24912, 27 June 1946, Page 5

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UNRRA MISSION TO JUGOSLAVIA

DISAGREEMENT WITH RUSSIAN CHIEF (Rec. 8 p.m.) BELGRADE, June 25. Mr Leo Hochstetter, an American member of the UNRRA mission to Jugoslavia, has revealed that he has been removed from his. post and ordered to return to Washington by Colonel Mihaii Sergeichik, the Russian chief of the mission, because of a disagreement over the censorship of UNRRA news releases. Mr Hochstetter said that Colonel Sergeichik’s policy was directed towards presenting the most favourable aspects of UNRRA in Jugoslavia, instead of giving a full and truthful account of its successes and failures. FRENCH COMPROMISE “GRUDGING TOLERATION” BY LABOUR (Rec. 7 p.m.) LONDON, June 25. “The Confederation General du Travail (the French Trades Union Congress) has made known its grudging toleration of the compromise on wages by which the Chief of the Government (M. Bidault) was enabled to form a Cabinet,” says the Paris correspondent of “The Times.” “Nothing could more surely indicate the essentially makeshift nature of to-day’s Administration.

“Tlie Confederation’s willingness to take something on account, with an implicit untierstanding that there would be more to come, provides another proof that no settled solution of financial problems can be achieved before the next General Election returns an Assembly with several years’ tenure and thus promotes the formation of a Government capable of carrying out a policy of planning for the future.”