YUGOSLAV POLICY

Evening Post, Volume CXL, Issue 7, 9 July 1945, Page 5

YUGOSLAV POLICY

BROADCAST BY TITO

ATTITUDE TO GREECE (By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright.) Rec. 10.30 a.m. LONDON, July 8. Yugoslavia wanted to live on the best relations with Britain and America, said Marshal Tito in a broadcast over Belgrade radio today. "We are related to them by war traditions, because we have fought shoulder to shoulder," he said. "I have faith in the British and American people. I am convinced that they will not allow our achievements in this struggle to be touched. "We will not flinch in the face of menaces from those who want to see in Yugoslavia a democracy of the Greek type. There will be a partial demobilisation, but the army will remain as long as other armies stand to arms. Greek provocateurs and reactionary troops have fired mortars across the Yugoslav frontier in an attempt to provoke the Yugoslavs. We do not respond to the provocations of reactionaries, because we know they are hated by the Greek people. "I believe the Greek people will gain their freedom. The Greek Minister of the Interior has declared that not a single Greek or Slav from Greece has passed the frontier to seek refuge in Yugoslavia. I say there are thousands and thousands, not only of Macedonians, but also Greeks, who have taken refuge in Yugoslavia and today live in Vofvodina, where we put them so that they could be better fed. They escaped from the terror of the Greek reactionaries." Marshal Tito promised the freest elections Yugoslavia had ever had soon, and reconstruction aimed at making Yugoslavia economically powerful. «_»___»——