COMINFORM BID TO BREAK TITO

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 22971, 14 June 1949, Page 7

COMINFORM BID TO BREAK TITO

(N.Z.P.A.—Reuter—Copyright.)

(11.30 a.m.) LONDON, June 13

The lenders of the Com inform were tonight reported to be putting the finishing touches on plans to intensify a press campaign and to increase economic sanctions against Marshal Tito's regime in Yugoslavia. say.s the Associated Press correspondent in 'Warsaw.

The Com inform\s three-day session is believed to be ending tonight and the announcement of a campaign against Marshal Tito is expected within a fortnight. Communist Party leaders from Russia and the Eastern nations started the meeting on Saturday in Karpacz in Lower Silesia. Informed sources say the Cominform intends to try in every way to wreck Yugoslavia's economy as a punishment for Marshal Tito's deviation from its principles. These sources predict increased propaganda attacks against the North Atlantic pact and the European recovery programme. Meanwhile, the Associated Press correspondent in Paris says there are signs that Yugoslavia and the Western Powers may be approaching an official economic understanding. The American Ambasador in Yugoslavia, Mr. Cavendish Canon, saw Mr. Dean Acheson, United States Secretary of State, in r-aris today and the spokesman for Mr. Acheson said they talked about the European Co-opera-tion Act/ It is assumed that they discussed either granting E.C-A. funds to Yugoslavia or lifting certain restrictions on the sending of supplies to Yugoslavia.