RED INTRIGUE IN DENMARK AND AUSTRIA

Chronicle (Levin), 9 March 1948, Page 5

RED INTRIGUE IN DENMARK AND AUSTRIA

Received Monday, 11.25 p.m. COPENHAGEN, March 8. The chairman of the JDanish Trade TTnion Federation (Ejnar Jensen) said Danish Communists were trying to hreak up Danish trade' unions and create -a eonflict "in order to report t6 Mosc'dw that Denmark has a little •'grouf 'which wahts -Czech conditiong, " Reuter's Viehna correspondent ■ jStates 'thit the Under-Secretary of tne Tnterior- (Ferdinand Graf) declared :ihat Communists with tfie help of trained agents were about to become, iyery.^G;tiyef in . Austria. ' ' The makiri dem3cr^tje 'parties wh'o got 95 ,per 'ce.nt-, of - thq , votes must . sink their personal differences energetically to halt these desperadces." . Diplqmats- say that Russian offi'cials expressed imp,atience at the time the Fmnish Government is taking. over : giving Mr. Stalin ah answer to his Russo-Finnish tfeaty proposal sent in his letter to Mr. Faasikivi on February 26, reports Reuter's Helsinxi correspondent. : ■ Finnish offlcials hinted that Finiand will want modifications of the propcsals. A Foreign Offtce spokesman said: "We don't expect any Finnish treaty to'he a photographic copy of the. Russian treaties with fiungary and Rumania. ' ' The Norwegian Lahour- Party' s central committee issued a statement regretting- the recent changes ,in Czechoslovakia. "Ncrwegian Communists received the news of the dictatorship in Czechoslovakia" with rejoicing. We appeal to Norwegians to guard their democratic institu- - tions. ' '