U.S. PLANES AND YUGOSLAVIA
Press Assn.-
TITO'S DECLARATION
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Received Friday, 7.0 p.m. LONDON, August 23. Tito, replying to a written question from the Associated j. Press declared Yugoslavia would no longer fire on United States planes even if tliey flew over Yugoslav territory without clearanee. Tito's reply read: "I have given the strictest orders to the Yugoslav Fonrth Army eommandej's not to fire 011 foreigu planes, civil or military." Replying to further qnestions from the eorrespondent, Tito declared he thouglit the infringement of Yugoslav frontiers was deliberate so as to create an inipression among Yugoslavs that the forces of United States (iovernment wero so overwhelming that the Yugoslav (iovernment must take everything. The appearance of a Flying Foi-fress over Ljuhljana a l'ew davs after the first United States plane was i'oi'eed down was "a pure demonslration of this."
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Chronicle (Levin), 24 August 1946, Page 5
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