TITO’S DOOM FORECAST BY ITALIAN COMMUNIST

Grey River Argus, 18 June 1949, Page 5

TITO’S DOOM FORECAST BY ITALIAN COMMUNIST

ROME, June 16

The Communist Party leader in Trieste, Senor Vittoria Vidali, was quoted to-day by the Italian News Agency Ansa as saying that Marshal Tito “would not last long”’in Yugoslavia.

Senor Vidali who attended the recent Czechoslovak Communist Congress in Prague, added: “I am in possession of proof to confirm this, but I cannot reveal it because it is part of the clandestine fight going on in Yugoslavia.

Anti-Tito Line In Hungary

PRAGUE, June 16.

The United Press says that the Yugoslav News Agency has accused Hungary of expelling three Yugoslav trade representatives deliberately to aggravate the relations between the two countries.

This was the third round within a month of the offical expulsions between Hungary and Yugoslavia. Hungary began by expelling members of the Yugoslav Reparations Commission and four Yugoslav diplomats Yugoslavia replied by expelling four Hungarian diplomats and accusing them of organising a spy ring.