SOVIET WARNING TO TITO: “MORE EFFECTIVE STEPS”
MOSCOW, August 20.—Russia today warned Jugoslavia that it would be forced to “take more effective steps to defend the rights of Soviet citizens inhumanly persecuted in Jugoslavia.” In a Note to Jugoslavia, Russia called on loyal Jugoslav Communists to “compel their present leadership ot recognise openly and honestly their mistakes, or to exchange their leadership for a new internationallyminded one.”
An exchange of Notes on the treatment of Soviet citizens has gone on simultaneously with a series of exchanges on Jugoslav territorial and economic claims on Austria. This latter series culminated recently when the Soviet announced Marshal Tito’s Government as “an enemy and opponent of the Soviet Union.” The Soviet Note published today said: “The Jugoslav Government maintains utter silence about the unbearable, inhuman prison regime for arrested Soviet citizens, as a result of which many prisoners have been brought by tortures, beating anl deprivation of food to an extremely ill state, endangering their lives.”
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Greymouth Evening Star, 22 August 1949, Page 5
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