MR. BEVIN REPORTED TO HAVE WARNED YUGOSLAVIA

Chronicle (Levin), 23 August 1946, Page 5

MR. BEVIN REPORTED TO HAVE WARNED YUGOSLAVIA

relations not good Received Friday, 10 a.m. LONDON, Aug. 22. Marshal Tito has summoned his foreign relations experts to join him at a meeting with the United States Ambassador, Mr. Richard Patterson, in connection with the shooting down of American planes over Yugoslavia. It is stated in Paris to-day that Mr. Bevin would see the Yugoslav Vice-Premier, M. Kardelj, and warn him that if Marshal Tito continues to provoke trouble, British-Yugoslav relations will be gravely impaired. A spokesman for the British delegation to the peace confei*ence later denied this report. He stated that Britain was not joining in the American action, although British-Yugoslav relations were not good. The Assoeiated Press' Washington correspondent quotes high diplomatic authorities as saying that the United States is considering fighter plane protection for American transport planes ftying near the Yugoslav border. He added that any such plan would retain the present ban against American flights over Yugoslav territory. Diplomats point out that the whole consideration is based on the point — that the United States planes attacked might not have been over Yugoslavia at all.