"YUGOSLAVIA ACTED AS ENEMY OF SOVIET UNION"

Chronicle (Levin), 31 August 1949, Page 5

"YUGOSLAVIA ACTED AS ENEMY OF SOVIET UNION"

Received Wednesday, 10.20 a.m. LONDON, Aug. 30. Moscow radio today broadcast the text of a further no„e toj

Yugoslavia delivered yesterday. Russia openly stated that she withdrew support of Yugoslavia's territorial c aims against Austria because of Marshal Tito's dealings with the West. Russia accused the Tito regime of betraying Yugoslavia's own national rights. "By an act of cowardice and betraya1, Yugosiavia has iost Slovene Carinthia," the note said. (Slovene Carinthia is the Austrian border province claimed by Marshal Tito in the Austrian Peace Treaty talks) . . The note said that Be'grade had renounced its claims on Carinthia in a secret agreement with the Bricish Government concluded two years ago. Marshal Tito's note of August 20, saying that "it is known to all the wor.d that the Yugoslav Government has never renounced its struggle for the reunion of Slovene Carinthia," was , therefore completely false. } To please "aggressive imperia1- • ist circles" in Britain, America and France, Yugoslavia had "acted ; as the erfemy of the Soviet Union." In the circumstances the Soviet Government "could no longer dei fend Yugoslavia's territorial I claims." The Russian note said that the I Yugoslav note was designed "to I fool the Yugoslav peop.'e, to cover ( traces of the Yugoslav Government's betrayal and to escape its fesponsibilities by xying."