Bulgar Blow At International Law

Northern Advocate, 4 October 1947, Page 5

Bulgar Blow At International Law

(Rec. 1.30 p.m.) LONDON, Oct. 3. A Foreign Office spokesman accused Bulgaria of “'striking a grave blow at the sanctity of international law’’ in her reply to the British protest about the execution of Petkov. The spokesman declared the reply struck at the whole basis of international cooperation by suggesting that Britain had no right to secure implementation of Article 2 of the Bulgarian Peace Treaty guaranteeing human rights. YUGOSLAVIA CLOSED

A British Foreign Office spokesman, commenting on the trial in Belgrade of the Peasant Party leader Yovanovitch said the suggestion that any contact with foreigners called for censure seemed to strike at the root of friendly relations between states.

Yovanovitch had been accused of contacting Mr Stephen Clissold, a former Press attache at the British Embassy, Belgrade. The spokesman said criticism ,of Mr Clissold for having interested himself in the Yugoslav internal political situation was extraordinary, since the situation was inherently interesting. In any case, all foreign Press attaches in London took the keenest interest in the British political situation. Hungarian Moves

(Rec. 2 p.m.) BUDAPEST, Oct. 4. The Hungarian Parliament has deprived M. Ferenc Nagy, former Premier, and M. Deszi Sulyok, iormer Leader of the Freedom Party, of their Hungarian citizenship. M. Nagy, who is now in America, resigned while in Switzerland on holiday in May. M. Sulyok soon afterwards left for Switzerland. Parliament decided to recall to Hungary M. Bela Varga, former exSpeaker, who left Hungary for Austria in June.