JUGOSLAV REPLY REJECTED

Press, Volume LXXXIV, Issue 25549, 17 July 1948, Page 7

JUGOSLAV REPLY REJECTED

COMINFORM ATTACKS TITO REGIME “ ANTI MARXIST, ANTISOVIET POLICY ” : BUCHAREST, July 15. According to the Rumanian News Agency the Cominform’s official | journal “uncompromisingly rejected” ■ i the Jugoslav Government’s reply to | the Cominform resolution condemning the Jugoslav Communist leadership, j The journal said that the Communist leadership of Jugoslavia under Marshal Tito was a nationalist leader- I ship which had betrayed the working ■ class and Jugoslavia’? national inda- ; pendence. , „ , The Jugoslav Communists so-called ; answer was “one of the basest docu- j ments.” - said the Cominform. It | showed that the Tito regime intended , ; to carry further its anti-Marxist and I. anti-Soviet policy. The Communist j workers’ parties were “indignant at i the terror regime of the Jugoslav] Communist Party.” which could not > be considered to represent the real 1 will of the masses of the members, i “London observers interpret the ' Cominform’s attack on the Jugoslav ' I Communist Party as an indication that | | Moscow is planning fresh sanctions ] against the Jugoslav Communist [■ leaders, because Moscow realises that i the Jugoslav leaders cannot be shifted I by Cominform denunciations,” says i Reuter’s diplomatic correspondent, i “Jugoslavia’s five-year plan will be ■ endangered if Moscow orders deliv- j eries under Jugoslavia’s agreements with other Eastern European States | i to be slowed down.” i