Rumania Breaks Pact With Yugoslavia

Chronicle (Levin), 3 October 1949, Page 5

Rumania Breaks Pact With Yugoslavia

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Received Sunday, 8.20 p.m, BELGRADE, October 2. The London Simday Chronicle's diplomatic correspondent says the Soviet-Yugoslav quarrel is believed to be Teaching a climax and a grave view is taken in London and Washington of the latest turn of events. It is doubted whether Tito would have used the exceptionally strong language of the Note he sent the Kremlin yesterday unless he had good reason to believe the Soviet prepar-, ations against him were nearing completion. The Note, which is Tito's strongest, is regarded as a notice to Russia that any Cominform armed attack would not only be resisted but would also be accompanied by an appeal to the democratic world for help.

Rumania, in a note denouncing its friendship treaty with Yugoslavia, accused Yugoslavia of inciting to war, subjecting Rumanian citizens to hloody terror, sending agents, spies and those of foreign imperialists into Rumania, leading a campaign of lies and slander and violating the Rumanian border and air space. Three hundred thousand people gathere'd iq. Bucharest today to hear speakers attack the West during the world peace day celebrations. Posters and cartoons labelled President Truman and Marshal Tito the "World's Biggest Warmongers." Mr. Churchill and Mr. Ernest Bevin were described as "Promoters of War." The American-lice'nsed Berlin newspaper Tages Spiegel claims that 32 Russian military _ trains passed through Berlin by night between September 1 and September 30. The trains, totalling 1200 wagons, came from Poland.