ARRESTS REPORTED IN JUGOSLAVIA
“PURGE OF COMINFORM SYMPATHISERS ” (Rec. 9 p.m.) LONDON, August 23. The British United Press correspondent in Belgrade reports that 50 members of the Jugoslav secret police have been arrested as part of a purge of Cominform sympathisers in the Jugoslav Communist Party. The Budapest Sunday newspaper “Uj Hirek.” the organ of the Hungarian Workers’ Party, devoted its entire front page to a report of alleged mass expulsions from the Jugoslav Communist Party, arrests, and purges among army officers and university students, and the personal glorification of Marshal Tito. The newspaper added that the repof* would appear in the next issue of the official Cominform organ in Bucharest. Nazi Hanged for War Crimes.—Dr. Joseph Buehler, chief of the administration under the Nazis’ war-time Polish Government, was hanged at Krakow for war crimes, including engineering the killing of more than 2,000,000 Jews—Warsaw, August 22.
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Press, Volume LXXXIV, Issue 25581, 24 August 1948, Page 5
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