INCREASING PRESSURE

Chronicle (Levin), 2 September 1949, Page 5

INCREASING PRESSURE

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U.S. Asd Britain Watching Soviet Moves

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Received Friday, 10.50 a.m. LONDON, Sept. 1. Both the British Foreign Office and United States State Department are closely watching the increasing pressure being exerted on Yugoslavia by Russia and the Cominform countries, and might support a public discussion of Soviet policy in the United Nations. So far no indication has been " given as to whether or not Yugoslavia will raise the matter in the Security Council. London observers do not believe that anything like a policy of military underwriting of Tito, as has been done for the Greek Government, is yet in sight. It is still the official view in London that the Soviet is not planning a military invasion of Yugoslavia, either by the use of its own 01* of Hungarian, Bulgarian and Rumanian forces. There is 110 doubt that the recent accounts of more Soviet troops being sent to Hungary have created the impression that the wai* of nerves is being pushed to unusual lengths. The Greek Foreign Minister, Mr. Tsaldaris, said today that he thought the Communist tactics used in Greece would be repeated in Yugoslavia. "I visualise a kind of secret wai* carried on by the Yugoslav Communists. Moscow will pull the strings the same as in the rebellion which has ravaged Northern Greece during the last three years.