COMINFORM EXERCISES ECONOMIC PRESSURE AGAINST YUGOSLAVIA
BELGRADE, Mar. 23.
Statements made at a congress of metal workers at Ljubljana, Yugoslavia, yesterday indicated that Cominform countries had raised the price of goods sold to Yugoslavia bj l, between 20 and 50 per cent. It was stated that other Cominform economic measures being applied against Yugoslavia included non-de-livery by Hungary and Czechoslovakia of industrial equipment needed for Yugoslavia’s five-year industrialisation plan, the stopping of reparation payments by Hungary, and prolonging of the delivery period of goods required by Yugoslavia's heavy industries. According to a message from Vienna, observers there stated to-day that 1 Russia had halted deliveries of oil products from her zone of Austria to Yugoslavia to soften Belgrade’s economic position ready for a Cominform f'oup against the Tito regime. The Austrian Press Agency said the blockade mainly affected supplies from the huge Zisterdorf oilfields,
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 27039, 25 March 1949, Page 5
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144COMINFORM EXERCISES ECONOMIC PRESSURE AGAINST YUGOSLAVIA Otago Daily Times, Issue 27039, 25 March 1949, Page 5
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