TITO-STALIN SPLIT HAS EFFECT IN CANADA

Grey River Argus, 5 October 1948, Page 5

TITO-STALIN SPLIT HAS EFFECT IN CANADA

Yugoslav Diplomats Side With Soviet

(Rec. 11.45) OTTAWA, Oct. 4 Pavel Lukin, the Counsellor of the Yugoslav Legation at Ottawa, said in a signed statement that he and six other employees of the Legation have resigned. They have done so because of the split between Marshal Tito and The statement said: I consider that the policies pursued by the present Yugoslav Government represent a betrayal of fundamental interests of our C °M lt Lukin added tht he had entered the Yugoslav Government s >rvice sharing a proud resolve to build socialism in Yugoslavia in unbreakable unity with other new democracies in Europe and the great Soviet Union.

Tito Paper Denies Yugoslavia is With Western Nations

BELGRADE, October o. The official Communist newspaper “Bora,” stated that Yugoslavia had cut all cultural and youth or£anisation links with Russia and Conform countries, but had ie J ect ?^ nSoviet charges that she was joining " il^S’ t rS®”the statement in the Cominform -i ournal ld Remain people’s democracy could n° L independent for six months once Js bonds with similar nations weie added that even if siavia was isolated from her neighbours the nation would continue to rtnnd with the Soviet and the Cominform countries against Front, and develop the Communist State inside Yugoslavia.