THE SQUEEZE ON TITO

...The Yugoslavs retorted *by accusing Dimltrov of oppressing the Pirin Macedonians and preventing them from using their language in schools and public affairs...

...It is said that General Markos's fall from grace was due to his vigorous opposition to such a scheme...

...The USSR demanded that Yugoslav raw materials be processed elsewhere, with no return in goods or manufactured articles...

...YUGOSLAVIAN COMMUNISTS originally aimed to transform the country from a rural backward area to a highly industrial structure...

...Though Greece was inclined to join a Balkan Federation, she opposes any Slavic brand commonwealth which would jeopardize her national security...

...He has contributed to American Mercury and Readers Digest and writes frequently for the Rev Leader...

...The new Kremlin line promotes a weak Yugoslavia and a strong Bulgaria...

...In Montenegro, the Soviets are stimulating the age-old pro-Russian sentiments As a result, hundreds of Montenegrin Communists have been arrested...

...But in Serbia, fear of the Greater Bulgaria idea is strong...

...Rankovich and braintruster Mosha Pijade, furiously reject Moscow "Hitlerite" attacks, other members of the Yugoslav high command are less inimical to orthodox Stalinism...

...Tito blames the Cominform countries...

...The Five-Year Plan has completely failed, and Tito admits it...

...Aid fronf the West can't give Tito the necessary lift...

...These attacks make it clear that Yugoslavia was never exploited by French, German, British or American business quite as thoroughly it has been in the past four years by the USSR...

...Immediately, the Bulgarian government expelled all Yugoslav-Macedonian teachers from Pirin (Bulgarian) Macedonia, and closed Yugoslav-sponsored Macedonian bookshops...

...If Russia is forced to crash Tito by turning her pack of sattelites loose on Yugoslavia, the Western Allies mayhave a rare chance' to help its people break with both national and international Communism, Diplomacy ami astute political sli atogy are needed more than weapons...

...In towns on the sattelite side of the Danube, in Hungary and in Rumania, anti-Tito brigades are organized and prepared for the ultimate, blow...

...Yugoslav prisons are filled with antiTito foes...

...At the Communist Party Congress in Bulgaria, when the order was given to speed up the anti-Tito offensive, the Macedonians, the Albanians, and the Trieste Communists received special encouragement...

...This was coupled with the enforced loss of most of her pre-war Western market...

...If the Soviet Union is unable to bring Tito to Canossa, antt the ideological war becomes a shooting war, the West through the United Nations and other agencies- should ask lor immediate intervention in tho Balkans, without giving the Soviets another chance at the complete sub* jugation of the Balkan peoples...

...For a while, the Southern Slavs particularly thought the dream would come true when Mother Russia was strong enough to take the lead...

...Bread and moat are now in critically .short supply...

...The West must offer the Yugoslavs a stronger program than the Soviets did...

...Suddenly they learned that the Soviet Union intended to keep Yugoslavia on its low rural basis, while expropriating all its raw materials for Russia's exclusive needs...

...In Prague the New Berlin, edited by Tito's former Washington Embassy propagandists, summons "Yugoslav people" daily to rise against Tito's "fascist, nationalist and reactionary clique...

...This revived Greater Bulgaria would be buttressed by the formation of a Macedonian stale, to include the present "Macedonian people's republic,", a constituent stale of Tito's Yugoslavia, In addition, Moscow baa promised the Macedonians the great aea pert of Salonika la Greece...

...THE NATIONAL QUESTION, however, has been Stalin's chief weapon against Tito...

...They fear loss of Northern Greece and especially Salonika would hurt their chances internally...

...In pre-war days, about threequarters of Yugoslavia's trade was with the Western nations, particularly with Britain and the United States...

...Thus the agricultural situation of Yugoslavia suffered tremendously...

...THIS IS THE TRAGEDY Stalin ha* brought the Balkans...

...The noble dream of progressive Balkan people since the end of Turkish rule has been to build a union ot sovereign and independent nations in that bloody area...

...Tito, in giving the Macedonians an "autonomous republic" in Yugoslavia, has introduced their language in the federal administration as equal to Serbo-Croatian and Slovenian...

...the six republics of Yugoslavia must be severed from Belgrade, to become six "independent"' states diicctly responsible to the Kremlin...

...The fight for Macedonia has had its repercussions among Communists in (Jrecce...

...Springboard for the ant i-Yugoslav drive is Dimitrov's Bulgaria...

...Tito's clash with the Russians has entered a more dangerous phase...

...Soviet and sattelite broadcasts single out Tito as responsible...

...Russia has made no attempt to help make up this loss, and her hijack methods after the war further contributed to the disruption of Yugoslav economic life...

...Here Stalin is following a policy which is older than Bolshevism, dating back the Tsarist-sponsored "Greater Bulgaria" which Disraeli balked at San Stefano in 1878...

...The Dimitrov-Tito agreement for a Balkan federation, concluded two years ago in Bled, has been abandoned...

...Tito was forced to round up 600,000 peasant boys for duty in the mines, using the Russian slave labor methods...

...As a result, Tito's blasts at Soviet disruption of Yugoslav economic life make a powerful document in the story of Eastern European "brotherly socialist" relations...

...Though Tito's hold on the reins of power is still firm, Stalinist opposition among the Communist rank and file inside and outside Yugoslavia is growing and becoming more acute...

...Many of the defendants declared they were fighting for Christ and the national independence of Catholic Croatia...

...No longer an exclusive personal fight for the elimination of Tito, it is now a struggle for the dismemberment of Yugoslavia...

...The same call for the "second liberation" is repeated, day and night, by all Soviet and sattelite broadcasting stations...

...WHILE TITO and his immediate friends, OZNA boss...

...The Macedonian phase of Moscow's strategy got underway as soon as the Cominform denounced Tito last June...

...The Tito heresy is spreading in all Stalin's possessions...

...The war between two antagonistic interpretation of Communism, which has already incurred high individual Josses on both sides, may easily become a shooting war...

...Tito's Yugoslnvia can not survive as a third world in this bristling "twoworld" geography...

...Russian policy has been rejected, not only by Stalin's erstwhile stooges, the Yugoslav Communists, but by the people of Yugoslavia...

...The Bulgarian government announced, of course, that Tito was plotting to annex Pirin Macedonia...

...As Stalin is forced to eliminate tho Tito nationalist heresy, the West is called to take a more active part in a rocky but brisk development...

...Instead they have impoverished a never rich area, and now wink approvingly as a crude and ruthless national civil war threatens tho unhappicst corner of Europe...

...All evidence coming out of Yugoslavia emphasizes the gravity of fhe situation...

...Moreover, they are disturbed at the prospects of a Slav federation, Stalin style...

...There a Yugoslav National Front, composed ef anti-Tito exiles, has already been formed...

...For the Soviets feel that Yugoslavia, a.s the strongest state in the Balkans, must be dislocated and atomized...

...After declaring time and again that only MarxismLeninism-Stalinism could smash pettynationalism and bring peace and prosperity to the worn out Balkans, Stalin is now faced with the perennial powder keg ready to explode in his face at infinitesimal notice...

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...The Yugoslav people are disconcerted, exhausted, and silent...

...Greece and Italy the Western Allies have open access to Yugoslavia...

...THE TITO-STALIN RIFT is nearing a showdown...

...They still emphasize that finding grounds for a Tito-Stalin rapprochement is imperative to the success of Communist World Revolution...

...Its demise has reduced a once rich country to a starvation diet...

...NO EASY SITUATION prevails internally...

...Kardelj and Kidrich, the bosses for foreign and economic planning, are more moderate...

...Four years of the Kremlin policy have fully demonstrated the incapacity of the Soviet* to unsnarl the tangled complexities o:1 the Balkans...

...And Macedonian Communists as well are openly attacking Dimilrov and bis new Soviet plan for Macedonian separation...

...Macedonia is once again a favorable area for Stalin operations against Belgrade...

...In Croatia, where anti-Serb feeling has never been extinguished, the recent anti-Catholic trials have evoked a strong nationalist feeling...

...It appears that almost the total national asset was taken away by the Soviets...