Events In Yugoslavia May Call For Action In Next Few Months

Chronicle (Levin), 6 September 1949, Page 5

Events In Yugoslavia May Call For Action In Next Few Months

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Received Tuesday, ^0.15 a.m. LONDON, September 5. While Moscow continued its anti-Tito propaganda campaign today, the European Consultative Assembly at Strasbourg was warned that events in Yugoslavia might call for action in the next few months. '

The warning was given by Mr. Leon Maccas, of Greece, who said that the Russian threats to Yugoslavia might call for a new session of the Assembly or other measures between sessions. Outside the Assembly, Mr. Maccas said he was sure the same thing would happen in Yugoslavia as had happened in Greece. Russia would not tolerate Marshal Tito's attitude, but at the same time would not go directly to war. Rusi , sia would send emissaries into | ( Yugoslavia and stir up guerrilla '■ bands to try to undermine the Government. % Russia attacked Yugoslavia today through Moscow radio, which quoted an article in the Cominform journal as saying that "dozens of thousands of loyal Communists" in Yugos'avia have been tortured with electric currents, starved and killed

in "Tito police concentration camps." Thg article in the Cominform journal, "for lasting peace and a people's democracy," was by Mr. Vadonja Golubovich, the former Yugoslav Ambassador who is now an "emigre" in Czechoslovakia and has been branded as a traitor by Yugoslavia. Mr. Golubovich said: "Only the newly-created- Communist Party in (Yugoslavia will be able to launeh thp struggle against Tito Pascism. Tito's gang has systematically liquidated the internationalist core in the Yugoslav Communist Party by means of arrests, beatings and murders until it has become the subsidiary organ of Tito's police machine." The article placed working class representation in the party at "less than 30 per cent."