COMINFORM TURNS SCREW

Chronicle (Levin), 14 June 1949, Page 5

COMINFORM TURNS SCREW

Plans To Wreek Yugoslavia's Economy Intensified Received Tuesday, 10.15 a.m. s LONDON; June i'3. iThe -le'aders of the" Cominform were tonight reported' to be putting the 'finishing touches on their •pians ■ >tq intensify the Press campaign and ko' ; increase ' the ecohpmic sanctions against Marshal ' Tlto's regime in Yugoslavia, says the Associated Press' Warsaw, correspondent. . The Coniinform's three-day session is be.iqved to be ending tonight and an announcement of the - ~ anti-Tito , campaign is expecked within a fortnight. Communist party 'eaders from Russia and the Eastern nations , started the meeting on Saturday ih i Karpacz, in lower Silesia. Informed sources say that theCominform intends to try every way to wreek Yugoslavia's economy as a punishment for Marshal Tito's devia'tiin from its princip.es. These sources predict increased propaganda attacks against the .North Atlantic Pact and the European ' Recovery Programme. Meanwhile, the Associated Press' Paris correspondent says khere are signs that Yugoslavia and - the Wjgstern Powers may be approaching an official ecpnomic understanding. The American Ambassador in Yugos'avia, Mr. Cavendish Cannon, saw Mr. Dean Acheson in Paris today and a spokesman for Mr. Acheson said that thev ta ked about European co-operation. It is assubaed that, thev discussed either the granting of Economic Co-operation Administration funds to Yugislavia or the lif ting of eertain restrictions on the sending of supplies to Yugoslavia.