FUTURE OF JUGOSLAVIA

Press, Volume CX, Issue 32450, 10 November 1970, Page 23

FUTURE OF JUGOSLAVIA

' Forecast of invasion (N.Z. Press Assn —Copyright! NEW YORK, Nov. 8. Jugoslavia will face dissolution and invasion by the Soviet Union after the death of President Tito, the Leader of the Opposition to the Royal regime in Belgrade before the Second World War, Mr Rajko Djermanovik, says in a letter to the “New York Times.” Now living in exile in Stockholm, Sweden, Mr Djermanovik writes: “Jugoslavia’s Communist Party has been unable to produce a man of stature who could be accepted by all parts of the country as its leader and as Tito’s successor. “Tito now intends to create a grotesque regency of 50 officials which would rule the country. . . After Tito’s death—he is now close to 80—the country will be ripe for a new application of the Brezhnev doctrine. “Tito is aware of this threat, since he blamed President Nixon for the presence in the Mediterranean of the Soviet Navy, which has now, in fact, sealed off Jugoslavia from the Adriatic side also, thus leaving the only safe access to the free world fpr Jugoslavia along the short Italian-Jugoslav border in case of a Soviet invasion—very probable, in my opinion.”