ARTICLES IN YUGOSLAV PRESS FRIENDLY TO BRITAIN AND FACTUAL

Wanganui Chronicle, 7 November 1950, Page 5

ARTICLES IN YUGOSLAV PRESS FRIENDLY TO BRITAIN AND FACTUAL

LONDON, Nov. 4. Factual, friendly and almost entirely favourable reporting has characterised several articles on Britain appearing in the Belgrade Press recently, reports Reuter.

The articles were written by members of a delegation of Yugoslav Communist journalists when they returned from Britain after a three weeks’ visit as guests of the Foreign Office.

The articles are regarded in Belgrade as reflecting improving relations between Britain and Yugoslavia, and expressing Marshal Tito’s new party line of judging British social democracy on its merits instead of following the Cominform in condemning it on principle as “Social Fascism.”

Miroslav Vitorovich, assistant editor of “Borba,” official organ of Yugoslav Communist party and general secretary of the Association of Yugoslav Journalists, in a lecture to a crowded meeting of Belgrade journalists, also emphasised the friendliness and hospitality which the delegation of six had met with in Britain. Vitorovich attacked the British Communist Party as “a mere agent of the Cominform’’ commanding no support among British workers. He thought that after the war British workers, and even the Government, had great sympathy for the Soviet Union, but the Soviet foreign policy had weakened that sympathy and the Korean war ended it finally.