YUGOSLAVIA'S FUTURE

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 89, Issue 270, 15 November 1945, Page 5

YUGOSLAVIA'S FUTURE

“WE CAN NOW PLAN”

TITO’S COMMENT ON POLL WANTS FRIENDSHIP WITH D.S. AND BRITAIN Recd. 6 p.m. London, Nov. 14. “The programme we fought the war on was the programme on which the National Front went to the polls. It is the same programme we worked out in 1942 and we don't intend to change it,” said Marshal Tito in an interview with “The limes" correspondent in Belgrade.

"The fact that the National Front won the election doesn't mean that It will reverse, or alter, the political destination. That remains what it was before—the construction of a wide democratic system in Yugoslavia, in which every individual can live a decent life. We now are able to start and plan our economy on a rational basis."

Tito said there would be no persecution of people who did not side with the National Front. He would like to see an opposition leading a full political life.

Referring to relations between Britain and Yugoslavia, Tito said that if the relations were not better than they were during the war it was not Yugoslavia's fault. Yugoslavia certainly wanted good relations with Britain and America. The Yugoslav Army is being demobilised as fast as it reasonably can be. He did not want to send men who fought hard back to their homes in areas on the verge of famine.

Tito revealed that all the churches in Yugoslavia, under the new Constitution, would be dis-established from State support. The correspondent says Tito spoke very warmly of Field-Marshal Sir Harold Alexander, for whom he seeing ed to have a special liking. He emphasised, however, that there was no spoken word or written agreement under which the British and Yugoslavia should not assault, enter or occupy Trieste. Tito said there was never any question of his not keeping the promise he made Alexander in Belgrade.