COMINFORM AND JUGOSLAVIA

Press, Volume LXXXIV, Issue 25554, 23 July 1948, Page 7

COMINFORM AND JUGOSLAVIA

CHARGES REJECTED BY MARSHAL TITO PARTY CONGRESS OPENS IN BELGRADE BELGRADE, July 21. Marshal Tito, in a marathon address, •Poke right through the opening day of file Jugoslav Communist Party’s fifth congress. Marshal Tito, up to lunch time, had spoken for five hours.

He resumed at 4 p.m. his review of “le party’s activities since 1921. er *ded his speech to-night by reuS- a U the Cominform charges him and declaring that the ugosisv Communist Party would copalong Marxist-Leninist lines. He “raii tbe Com inform with having aJu? for a civi l war in our country trJ 1 the annihilation of our country.” fnr ask t d w hat had Jugoslavia / done RtJ^+ S j C h a drastic campaign to be started against it. ted “Tito the hero, Tito,” las10 minutes when the conference started. coffee house in Belgrade was shai People listening to Mar£*to s address over the radio. Tito said: “Jugoslavia’s P eo Pl e and Communists will cni- er f°JSet that we must look for Unirm pl 2? ec tion towards the Soviet and u i , a ll- u nion Communist Party il* ad ? r * the great Stalin.” *’erp that the Jugoslavs in 1941 e People to answer Mr Vader S Ca 1 to oppose the Fascist inn -ws agency, Tan jug, that 4.300 delegates acclaimed

Marshal Tito when he arrived for the opening of the congress, in a hall decorated with busts and emblems of Lenin and Stalin. The congress elected to its board Marshal Tito and other Jugoslav Ministers whom the Cominform recently criticised.