NEW JUGOSLAV GOVERNMENT

Press, Volume LXXIX, Issue 24123, 6 December 1943, Page 5

NEW JUGOSLAV GOVERNMENT

FORMATION IN FREED TERRITORY EFFECT ON EXISTING CABINET (N.Z. Press Association— Copyright) (Rec. 11.45 p.m.) LONDON. Dec. 5. * A meeting of 140 delegates from all parts of Jugoslavia held in liberated territory have decided to form a provisional Parliament for liberated Jugoslavia and also a National Committee of Liberation, with all the rights and functions of a provisional Government. . . ' Dr. Ivan Ribar, who was first President of the Constitutional Assembly at Belgrade after the last war, has been elected president. General Tito, at present Commander-in-Chief of the Jugoslav People’s Army of Liberation, has been appointed head of the Committee for National Defence and promoted to marshal. Jugoslav circles in London are of the opinion that the creation of a provisional Government on liberated Jugoslav territory is likely to have far-reaching effects on the position of the Jugoslav Cabinet in Cairo, says the Exchange Telegraph Agency, Reports reaching London from Cairo indicate that the position of the Cairo Cabinet is felt tojiave become untenable in British as well as Jugoslav c i rc l eS It is believed that Dr. Branko Cubrilovic, who was a member of the last Jugoslav Cabinet formed in London will be called on to form a new Cabinet on a broad basis, which may share Government business with the provisional Government. It is also learned that the Cairo Cabinet to-day dismissed all the Jugoslav Press Department officials in London, who were installed after the Cabinet upheaval on March 27, 1941, which was responsible for the overthrow of Prince Paul.