“DIVIDE AND RULE” IS SOVIET PLAN IN THE BALKANS

Grey River Argus, 29 September 1949, Page 5

“DIVIDE AND RULE” IS SOVIET PLAN IN THE BALKANS

Tito’s Charge of “Rattling Arms”

(N.Z.P.A.—REUTER CABLE) (Rec. 9.10). BELGRADE, Sept. 28.

Marshal i ito last night accused Russia of “rattling arms” around Yugoslavia's borders, and of “digging trenches” in Hungary and in Rumania. He said that the Soviet was following “the old Roman principle” of “divide and rule” in the Balkans.

Marshal Tito was speaking in Serbia, on the anniversary of the first meeting of the Yugoslav Military Committee to plan resistance in 1941.

Marshal Tito said that some of the Soviet leaders and some heads of the peoples’ democracies were jealous of Yugoslavia’s prestige and reputation. “The attack has originated _ from envy, because the peoples o.f the Cominform countries love Yugoslavia, and its leadership”. He continued: “The Soviet leaders are glad to see us quarrelling and disunited. They are labouring on the breaking of the ties between various peoples, in order to exploit them the more easily”.