TITO LEAVES FOR LONDON

Press, Volume LXXXIX, Issue 26985, 10 March 1953, Page 9

TITO LEAVES FOR LONDON

Ministers Included In Entourage (N.Z. Press Association —Copyright) (Rec. 9 p.nt) BELGRADE, March 9. Marshal Tito left Belgrade --on his way to London last night. He will arrive in Britain next Monday. Three days ago it was announced that the start of Marshal Tito’s visit to Britain had been advanced from March 23 to March 16. Nd explanation was given for the change. The visit will be a private one. Marshal Tito will be the guest of the British Government, will lunch with the Queen during nis stay in London. Marshal Tito is accompanied by his Foreign Secretary (Mr Kocha Popovich), the Foreign Under-Secretary (Mr Alesh Bebler), Vice-Admiral Josip Chernie. second-in-command of the Jugoslav Navy, Dr. Sloven Smodluka, Minister Plenipotentiary and Chief of Protocol of the Foreign Ministry; Major-General Miljan Djedjel, a member of Marshal Tito’s personal entourage; and Major-General Milosh Shumonia, who recently led a Jugoslav military mission to' Athens and Ankara for military talks on the basis of a tripartite Balkan alliance with Greece and Turkey. These talks are continuing. The British Admiralty announced that 12 destroyers of the Royal Navy would escort Marshal Tito to and from Britain. He is travelling in the Jugoslav training ship Galeb, formerly an Italian minesweeper. In England, an armoured car with bullet-proof glass will be at Marshal Tito’s disposal. A special watch will be kept on certain Communists who are considered capable of violence, and also on people of Jugoslav origin.

ROMAN CATHOLICS PROTEST

LONDON, March 8. About 3000 Roman Catholics protested at a rally in Glasgow today against Xhe British Government’s invitation to Marshal Tito to visit Britain. The meeting urged the Government to impress on Marshal Tito the “loathing with which so many Iqyal citizens in Britain regarded his persecution of religion.”