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THE CHINA MAIL, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 23, 1948.
STALIN EXPECTED TO AGAINST TITO
MOVE
TERMS OF LEBANON TRUCE
Rhodesia, March 21.
Washington, March 22. American officials now are convinced that Premier Stalin will make a major effort this Spring and Summer to smash the power of his ex-follower, Marshal Tito of Yugoslavia, and return that horetical state to the Communist fold. Responsible opinion here is based mainly on two
considerations:
from
The main points of the
I-One Is a steady Cow of be going on within the countries Israeli-Lebanese trace agree- rumours and reports into around Yugoslavia.
There have been rumours of European ment to be signed on Weduca- Washington withdrawnl day are the
of capitals over several months to frontier the effect that the Russians are Israeli
from troops villages in the Lebanon and the preparing some heavy action reduction of forces by both against Tito.
The other is the fact that sides.
.
Qu
willing?
troop movements on both sides of the Yugoslavian borders but informants here say those reports have not been confirmed.
There have also been rumeurs that Tito has warned his own
Cominform fifth column action.
Action Vital
The agreement reached yester-Yugoslavia stands like a gaping followers in order to block
hole re- the talks were
in the Red solidarity of day when
Eastern Europe. Stalin and his El Nakura, nt Ras sumed
Israel)-Lebanon frontier, Politburo colleagues will have to the
try to All the hole for reasons Includes the following points:
Complete Israeli with-of politichi and military strategy, Whether the Soviets will be villages drawal from Lebanese cccupied during the lighting last netion of a limited kind-in order to resort to war-even
Tito
a question international frontier to remove The to be accepted as the demaren-arousing divided speculation here. Authorities privately eny they tion ne between the two forces,
that convince, however, 3. Immediate exchange of war are prisoners, which total less than Russia, acting through the Com
Inform and through the satellite 20 on either side.
year.
2.
4. The reduction of the fight-slates of Albania, Bulgaria and
Hungary, will use intern! poll- thead intrique, economle pressure, and the threat of force to try to Beirut Agreed today to the In-overthnaw Tito's regime, ternationalisation
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antem. on condition that the League be given considerable control authority
-
The agreement was reachest at a private meeting a few hours before the opening of the con- ference on refugees called by the
Troop Movements
Russia and all the satellite Bjalca have built up a slowly Intensifying campaign, mainly economic and propaganda.
What makes it vital for the Soviet Union to act now with respect to Yugoslavia is the com- pletion of the North Atlantic treaty and its imminent signing Moscow, which calls that al- llance aggressive, fears a unity. Ing Western
world with major, weak spot In Ita own Eastern front. From a military point of view, experts here say, if the Russians
Albanians On Moscow Visit
London, March 21. Moscow Radio reporta, that an Albanian Government delegation, fed by the Prima Minister, Gendra) Enver Hadja, arrived in Moscow to- day.
The Albanian delegation Includes officers of the State Planning Commission and the Deputy Chief of the Gen- brat Staff. They were met at the airport by the Deputy Chairman of Ministers, M. Mikoyan, and the Minister of Foreign Affairs, M. Vyshin- aky.
The aerodroms was tredeck. and ad with the Albanian Soviet flag-Reuter.