RIFT CANNOT BE HEALED

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 71, Issue 36, 22 November 1950, Page 5

RIFT CANNOT BE HEALED

YUGOSLAVIA AND RUSSIA' STATEMENT BY TITO iN.Z.P. A.—Copyright) LONDON, Nov. 21. Marehal Tito announced last night through his propaganda chief that Yugoslav reconciliation with the Soviet was impossible. The announcement was made on the eve of the British and United States emergency programmes to avert the famine in Yugoslavia caused by drought. In the Communist newspaper “Borba,” the . Yugoslav propaganda chief, Mr Milovan Djilas, reviewed the campaign by Russia and her satellites against Yugoslavia. “It is clear that the gulf between us and them is unbridgeable,” he said. “The conflict is sharper than that between Labour and Capital, or between monopoly capitalism and proletarian popular democracy.

“State monopoly capitalism In tne Soviet has assumed monstrously despotic forme, in all fields of life. Instead of internationalism, brotherhood and equality of peoples, Russia presents a picture of nationalistic darkless, holding under its sway six European States preparing for aggressive war, allegedly against capitalism but actually for guarantees of plunder and the acquisition of new territories.” The Moscow radio has countered the recent announcement of increased Western aid to Yugoslavia with abusive broadcasts, especially on beams reaching Yugoslavia. The latest Moscow allegation is that Marshal Tito has been “Gelling Yugoslav youths as cannon-fodder-in exchange for powdered eggs, which have been spoiling in United States warehouses since the end of the war.” Several times daily the Moscow radio has repeated the allegation that the Americans control Yugoslavia’s airfields and the British control all her ports. Moscow has also given much time to the story that the Yugoslav Government has sold the Western Powers the 1951 production of Yugoslav lead, chrome, antimony, and timber at far below the present world market price. There have been many appeals to the Yugoslav masses to “eliminate Tito domination and return the country to the brotherly family of the people’s democracies, bound by close friendship to the Soviet Union.” Messages from Belgrade say that the first shipment from the United States to relieve the food shortage has arrived at Fiume. It consisted of 1600 tons of beans and 200 tons of tinned meat and dried milk. It was paid for out of the 2,000,000 dollars in the American Export-Import Bank placed at Marshal Tito’s disposal* for emergency food purchases.