Russian Abuse Of The Tito Regime

Wanganui Chronicle, 22 November 1950, Page 5

Russian Abuse Of The Tito Regime

LONDON, Nov. 21 (Recd. £pm).— Moscow radio countered the recent announcement of increased Western aid to Yugoslavia by abusive broadcasts, especially on beams reaching Yugoslavia.

The latest allegation was that Marshal Tito has been “selling Yugoslav youths as cannon-fodder in exchange for powdered eggs which have been spoiling in United States warehouses since the war s end.” Several times a day the radio repeated an allegation that the Americans control Yugoslav airfields and the British control all ports. Moscow also devoted much time to a story that the Yugoslav Government sold the Western Powers the 1951 production of Yugoslav lead, chrome, antimony and timber far below the present world market price. There had been many appeals to the Yugoslav masses to "eliminate the Tito domination and return the country to the brotherly family of the People’s democracies, bound by close friendship to the Soviet Union.”

Messages from Belgrade say the first shipment from the United States to relieve the food shortage has arrived at Fiume. It consisted of 160(1 tons of beans. 200 tons of tinned meat and dried milk, and was paid for out of 2.000,000 dollars from the American Import and Export Bank placed at Tito’s disposal for emergency food purchases.