Why Yugoslavia Is Getting U.S. Munitions
Received Monday 8.50 p.m. LONDON, Nov 7. The Daily Telegraph's Vienna correspondent says it is thought here that the United States' decision to sell aireraft parts and petrol to Yugoslavia may be followed during the winter by releases of other categories of warlike stores to Marshal Tito. The American decision was the first relaxation of the ban prohibiting the sale of . any goods which might increase the war potential of iron curtain countries. Yugoslavia 's military weakness is known to be a critical shortage of army and air force equipment of all types. Concern over this is reported to have been conveyed to Western observers when Soviet satellite forces were staging troop demonstrations along Yugoslavia 's northern frontiers in the late summer and autumn. . The Yugoslav Army has about 1000 tanks, including Russian and American models, but only about 500 are thought to be serviceable. They are kept going by sparea stripped from the remainder. The Yugoslav Air Force is similarly placed with most of its assortment of 500 planes already ground ed for lack of sparea.
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Chronicle (Levin), 8 November 1949, Page 5
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