PRAGUE FOLLOW'S MOSCOW LINE — CZECH REDS DENOUNCE TREATY WITH TITO GOVERNMENT
PRAGUE, October 4 (Rec. 11.50 a.m.).—The Czechoslovak Government announced its denunciation of its treaty with Jugoslavia and, like the other Cominform nations who had already done so, accused the Tito regime of having made the agreement useless. The Czech Government statement charged Jugoslav diplomats with having organised “industrial espionage” in Czechoslovakia and collaborated with “reactionary elements against the people’s institutions.” .
The Note announced the expulsion of two more Jugoslav Embassy secretaries, adding that many Jugoslav officials had been “showing criminal intentions against Czechoslovakia. The Czechoslovak. Government declared that the Jugoslav ambassador to Prague, Mr Hmarijan Stilinovic,
was pfersona non grata and demanded his’recall. 5 j . The Czechs claimed that they had “irrefutable proof” that Jugoslavia had given its espionage agents diplomatic functions. The trial of Laszlo Rajk, former Hungarian Foreign Minister, was proof of Jugoslavia’s hostile attitude- towards Czechoslovakia.,
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Greymouth Evening Star, 5 October 1949, Page 5
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