JUGOSLAV RUPTURE WITH COMINFORM

Press, Volume LXXXV, Issue 25924, 3 October 1949, Page 7

JUGOSLAV RUPTURE WITH COMINFORM

Alleged Russian Breach Of U.N. Charter

“SOVIET’S PEACE POLICY IS EMPTY WORDS”

(N.Z. Press Association—Copyright)

(Rec. 10 p.m.) BELGRADE, October 2. Jugoslavia yesterday accused the Soviet of breaking the ’‘international principles contained in the United Nations Charter.” The charge was made in a Note handed to the Soviet charge d’affaires in Belgrade, protesting against Russia’s recent denunciation of its friendship treaty with Jugoslavia. The Note quoted Mr Stalin as saying in 1941 that Russia would never intervene in the internal affairs of a small country. It continued: “Responsibility for the consequences which may result from the non-peace-loving acts of the Soviet Government to Jugoslavia must be borne exclusively by the Soviet Government. “The peace-loving and freedom-loving peoples of Jugoslavia and the entire democratic public of the world are witnesses of the unilateral and arbitrary rupture of this treaty of friendship between Jugoslavia and the Soviet, and the endeavours of the Soviet Government to use this as a means of blackmail and pressure on the peoples of Jugoslavia and their free and independent Socialist homeland.” Five times the Note referred to the “non-peace-loving action of the Soviet Union.” It declared: “The peace-loving policy of the Soviet Government remains empty words. It is known that representatives of the Soviet attempted to organise agents within the Jugoslav Government and an army which would aim at forcibly overthrowing the Jugoslav Government.”