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8-1940.
Tito's Battle With Stalin
As the second year of Tito's fight for Independence of Krem- lin control starts, both he and Stalin have dropped all pre- tences.
.
Pretences Have Gone
venting Soylet
Right To Equality
frines.
*
Blockades By Cominform
citizens from munist States by thele continued No longer do.dbeg, seck, to..re-supporting the Yugoslav. revolu=| adherence to Communist loc- present their dispute an a dce- tionary emigres,” trinal clash between Communist Parties. Such was the mplication of the Cominform comunique of June 28, 1940, which da- nounced the nounce
teadership of the Yugoslay Communist Party and expelled the Party ilac from the ranks of the Cominform.
But 12 months of egnflict have clarified the issue. Today it is plain for all to see that Belgrade and Moscow are engaged in on relenting struggle for power. Moscow Accused
Sharply reacting to these thin- ty-velled threats, on June 3 the Yugoslav Communist newspaper)
Borba" commented: HK$72.00
"As the Soviet Note does substantinte its assertions any arguments, it reveals to what monstrous, absurd and ridicu ous Des
one can positions when one is out to humillate a small country which is defend- ing its right to equality."
This 8, incloed, the essential the Tito-Stalin significance of
ANOTHER WARNING
Ove
Came
קנו
June
Witness the latest diplomatic development-the two Nites ex- changed between the Yugoslav und Soviet Government on May 23 and May 31, and published on Belgrade now accuses Moscow of "conducting hostile and discri- minatory actions ngainst Yuger
Soviet turning the lavia", "of Yugoslav Treaty of 1945 into dead letter", of lending, support to the forcible overthrow of the Socialist regime in Yugoslavia" and of "the crudest interference in Yugoslavia's internal affairs".
"Support Of Traitors"
dispute.
come
affect, the prospects of his Five Year Plan for Industrialisation as Yugoslavia depends on foreign supplies of caplini, equipment such as machinery, of almost all manufactured products, and off. necessities like oil and pig-Iron,
Nevertheless, Tito's position is more fortunate economically, flyi Datters politically. In economic
compromise, there, is room for and his isolation need not be complete.
jng
·Voltò of America.
What are the wild waves any- Twenty four hours a day...? Well, maybe they're making
the meulike Live the American Way!
*
"M. Pavlov. came out to give the Economically, Tito la confronted
n running commentary on with a rapidly intensifying polley
The Western democracies have dehnte. Ile said the
Western not of sarictions applied by Soviet with Russia and her satellites a vir- no objection to trade with Tip foreign ministers "found all sorts tual blockade: by the Cominformer with anyone else, provided the of excuses for not taking up the reasonable. "Moscow plan. Mr. Ccheson, he said, won Drastic steps have recently been terms are
continually pre-irritated, and Mr. Bevin WILA taken by Czechoslovakia and propaganda
that trade, relations_be- nevranu.” Hungary.
claims
And whose fault might, that On June 12 Belgrade officially tween Yugoslavia and the West
that Tlio Is in panguneed
"entering the had broken off trade relations But the existing rude agreement "The reason why no larger with Yugoslavia after demand- between Britain and such coun- sum then-1820/was involved was
for this year. (without a
seen by which no inore, Viun $40 at Materials taken land make this charge quantity of raw over Ulo in 1948. In March, the Czechs rather ridiculous, even to people one time could be stolen by any-
ing
with ing
that Czechoslovakiaj constitute "pmperialist, camp"
Are local Communist parties uid pro quo) Beyennes the tries as Soviet Russia and Ro- that the company had a system
0
.On
even when they take
agreement in Eastern Europe. powers of government and sover-hod: signed, a trade
worth..only. 1.- clenty--to be merely the local with Yugoslavia,
500.000.000 dinars, as compared Titcism" May Spread rigidly-centralised agents of
June 18 the Hungarian
There are, moreover, two fur- Kremlin authority? Or are they with 2,700,000,000 for: 1848.
be equal and independent
Government tu
declared
null and ther factors which tend to stiffch bodies?
vold ..the Ave-year économie Tilo's attitude:
the secret That 11 is no with Yugoslavia, Differences are bound to arise
pgreement over doctrine,
expediency and signed on July :24 1947. Hungary Cominturm blockade is ns
harmful to Poland, Czecho tactles. These could be resolved had already expelled, the Yugo- without destroying the Com-lav Reparations Commission.
slovakia and Hungary as it
to Yugoslavia. The re munist machine.
the economie at- pulse of
might
have serious throughout
But
Communist let a local
challenge Party once
the right In particular, Belgrade com-ot the machine to control. it, let once plains of the support given by a Communist government
dare to assert its national inde- the Soviet Government to Yugopendence, and there is no room slav Communists who ora,werking against Tito, and goes so far as lecture the Kremlin on prin- ciples of policy. The Yugoslav Note declares:
insists for compromise. Stalin Al Tifo denies-that every Com- munist Party must be a Kremin puppet.
Through all the phases of the China civil war. British policy has. consistently been and impartial completely non-interventionist-so much that on more than one occasion this newspaper has criticised what it regarded as downright appeasement.
There are grailually ap- signs however, pearing. which while not at all pro- vocative indicate a harden- ing of our attitude, and an implicit promise that we will stand up for our rights in this part of the world. The first
the Colony when the Societies'
The support which the Soviét Ordinance was passed, ala-
Government gives to these trai- viously aimed at Commun-
tors to their Socialist homelanti
and Tito between We did not ist activities.
is contrary to the principles of
to be complete,' then, and do not now regard non-interference in the internal Stalin appears
What has this meant for Yugos- affairs of other sovereign coun this as a clever or statesman-
should lavia? ries- principle which like move, and it has evok
inye honoured bitter criticism from Pei-e especially
lations among. Shefalist countries. ping, but at least it indicat- "This support is also at odds ed an awareness of our dan-weh the declared principle of Soviet foreign policy, as, express- in a statement made by the Then came the gallant.
head of the Soviet delegation to clash of the shell-torn Ame-the Third Session, of the United thyst,
that
Nations General Assembly, when showing!
he said: "No State has the right proud Navy will not submit
to interfere in the internal affairs to the terrorist tactics of
of another State by using various Moscow-trained bandits.
hirel groups to undermine foundations of the State" ".
ker.
our
Now the Hong Kong gov. ernment has further clarified
Go
the
its stand against the con- Soviet Recrimination stant boring from
within
which has been carried out by Red agents since the liberation. It is not before time, but we consider that yesterday's warning to the New China News Agency is not sufficiently strong or de- tailed, although the letter from the Colonial Secretary did suggest penalties. Mr. Nicoll intimated that further dissemination
libellous of and seditious matter will not be tolerated, and further in- fringement of the law will be appropriately dealt with.
He quoted the recent statement in Parliament that freedom of the Press, was fostered here, and would be continued, "provided acti- vities contrary to the law, or prejudicial to public security in Hong Kong are not in- dulged in." He then refer-
The Soviet Note replies that the Yugoslav Government has forfeited the right to expect a friedly attitude. And this fur
three reasons.
1. Tito, it is alleged, has established, an "anti-Com-
terrorist
Relentless. Pressure
The rift
"Violation Of ~Agreements"
As long ago,us Decerober: 27, In which he referted to "concrete economic pressure" and "a crudo violation of various agreements and obligations."
1948, Tito do a speech
plans
not hast
Bigiffeuntly he added: "Our
for, industrialisation du
Which -certain main 'a source of raw materials." Moscow's, brisk reply came un December 31, It was
hast
surected to ula, to, re-
1.
2.
tick
repercussions
pean Empire, There
Are
one in their employment."
Thought it out all by them-
selves, ton,
Going To The Dogs
The post-war dog population af Berlin has risen from 20,000 in 1948 to 50,000 at present. The message falls to state, whether Occupation includes the schweinhunds.
11-
Jenks has finally admitted that golf is too much for him,
he Irrevocable decision, The the Kremlin's Eastern Burn sheepishly tells me, came when after particularly brutal session that in a bunker, he sought to Are signs
uncomfortable silence "Tolsm" may
be conta-eve the
declaring to his gious-e... the rapidly by cherily
Com caddy: "Funny game, golf.”
'To which the boy replied: Jubilers recently
Tuin't meant to be." Furged or liquidate. (Hajk in Hungary, Xoxe In Al- banin, Kostov in Bulgaria, Patenscamu in Reumonia,
Browing number of
Comulka in Poland).
Impenitent Denial
that a,new trade unced Comin been signeil, between their struggle
for
=
When Greek Meets Greek... I's Rend or Rendition.......
Cominunists Cyprus have
called Far
i now
al
11-
demonstrations ever the island for Union with Greece...usk. Rightist co-operti- tion! Such is the latest phase of a "The Greek Government Ostracise from the
which first became nonres that all Communist ne- is now being sub-
known to the outside world on tivity
practically under form, Tile
Cominform control... maintained
June 20, when the lected to political and economic pressure, relentlessly
marked the climax-The only thing clear about all by order of the Kremlin.
of a lengthy, exchange of charges this is that they dim't seem very fast with their Ordinance-con- mit_counter-charges.
The
between concocting in Cyprus, correspondence Belgrade and the Kremlin, since
shows. When published in Yugoslavia,
at the enough Stalin's growing concern refusal of Tito to toe
Politically: Tito-and-the- Yugos- Jav Communists are bound 10 feel uneasy. They face, the pros pect of quarrelling with all the other Communist Parties of the world. They must fear isolation on two fronts-from Communism
and the USSR reducing this year to a mere 12, percent mutual exchange of goods
Poland of the 1918, gure. obediently followed with a cor- responding cut la 30 per cent.
Isolation "From
The East
f
by their insistence of an indepen- position of economic Isolation dent policy: from the non-Com- from Eastern Europe. This must
communique
Andrew mustered up courage
the line. Ste o' the
Stewart
to ask Mrs. Braes for the she
his
༣.
awn
Tito, determined to be master in hand of her eldest Tito has been forced into
bit. impenitently demureed
Andrashe denici, the Kremlin's contention, says, "ye ken Maggie's ist n Hae dcquaint that his position was similar to country inssic an that of any iqther
the lassies are palied, "fan" His position was
was, in fact, basi-poodered.
"I ken that," said Andrew, cally different. He and his Par- tisans seized power by, their own but I want a wife wi bonny Augalin efforts, independently of reid.cheeks an nae lookin, as if Ihq. Red Army, They installed an she cam' col o' i, door barrel," entirely new State machine,, in- And Andrew won the day. siend of taking over a bourgeois
Let thought-policed Slavic
leader in sotallites Communist w the ways o' the toon, whour
REDCAPS KILL A SNEER
munist, anti-democratic, By MAJOR -S.F. CROZIER, MBE
2. By his hosulity to Russia
Union"; and
3. He has allowed the Yugo. slav Press to become "the unbridled
mouthpiece of anti-Soviet agijation."
Colonel-Commandant
He had not used the ruined
troops
BUTO
onc.
Marionette Cuckoos
slaves
Over..the way
Cringe neith the OGPU and
NKVAI
While we remain free neath
the ling that we' fy
(And
the triandly regard of our dear F.B.I.)
Recently in Inkerman Bar-J he has "slid into the camp | racks. at Woking, Surrey, building beelde his point, a
True, both Yugoslavia and the of the foes of the Soviet General Sir Miles, Dempsey, shelter, but by his presence in the
of the roadway had stopped coreless Soviet-installed Communists cisc- from death by shellfire or where in Eastern Europe adopted Corps of Royal Military Police, disenso for epidemics were, fear at first the facade of broad-based indid's on but better known as G.O.C. ofed in the wrecked town, full of un- coalitions. But, Tito the 2nd Army, which pushed buried, bodies.
the distinction between Yugo-
Sald the American, proudly infantrymen or
slavia. and tank crews
those countries the Germans from Normandy to
in exhibiting a winall scar, Sec Installed that? I got that when I fell from a the Rhine, unveiled a memorial who, in battle, risked death vary which the Red Army
moderate
coalitions
- window on one of the top floors to the 900, officers and men of minute, these. incidentnayper-
with
Com-
of the Hong Kong & Shanghai the Corps who were killed in haps appear, trifling but if they
had been asked to discard their munists in key
Bank." the last war.
their
Kiradually the Communists took armour and their They, like all the other soldiers to land wipetected, over power in those who lost their lives on activo ser- vice, died for Britain's cause but, with a conspicuous red band round States, pushing out by the, manner of their deaths, their helmets, on a cross-rads in coalition parties, like cuckoos in der shell-fire, think they would the nest. But they were marlo- did something else an well.
"What have you done with They changed the Army's con- have agreed it takes a pretty cool nette cuckoos, moved by Krem-
form of courage.
that book, 'How to Live, 100 tempt for the Military Felice Into
In Yugoslavia, On If the RM:P...had a motto, it
the other Years'?” asked Mrs. Brown. hand, the State-power based you don't think I'm going to respect, and pvcn admiration.
might well be "First in, last out."
B.B.F. Was retiring upon the police, the Army and leave a book like that, lying When
Moscow .prococils, to draw a sharp distinction between Tito's "unrepresentative" regime and the people of Yugoslavia, for whom Soviet Russians the warmest friendship." The note declares that the Soviet Govern- ment....has no intention of pre-
red to a release by the that Communism cannot be agency, re-printed in the wiped out by suppressive "China Mail"
yesterday, actions,
Most of them were killed in battle, marking lanes through
lin strings.
"Good heavens," said his friend, bourgeols "and you weren't' killed?" the other "No, I was lucky-1 fet in-
wards"
That is not what mineflelds, on the invasion beaches, from Francelhtry, platoon the Party, was, not the Kremlin's. | about with your mother in the
at heavily shalled, cross-roads.
Brave Deeds
The old order had been reversed. The Redcaps were in front of the *Loopt, not behind them.
Lest there are still any
arm-
chair soldiers who still suppose that Military Police are to ba found only in confortable billets at the base, let me give some in- stances of how, these brave, men
What is making a blistering attack we had in mind.
essential in on Amethyst, stating de- immediately finitely that she had fired on Hong Kong, is the removal and sunk a passenger vessel of sources of contínuous during her bid for freedom, anti-British agitation, allen adding: "The Chinese people ating the feelings, of large will never forget this, they numbers of the population. must avenge the sacrifices who in time of emergency made by their countrymen." could hardly be expected to
This is typical of the vici- be on our side. ous Communist propaganda, To put the matter into died. for the utterance of which proper focus the "New
At Calais, where the garrison ordered to fight to the leat, the fifth columnists claim all China News Agency" does there was a detachment of Mill, the advantages of demo- not circulate news.
We our tary
Police. When volunteers cracy which are denied non-
selves have studied its com- were required to carry a message conformists under their own plete service carefully, and through the encircling Germans,
twa NGOs
of the Military Police totalitarian regime. We are can say definitely that it two surprised, in fact, that the does not deal so much in
**gleckad.
was killed, the other got Lauthorities here have allow- lies as in pure fairy tales. through. He reported that, when ed this sort of dangerous Life in Peiping, Nanking, he just saw his comrades in Calais they wore..fighting side by alds filth to be spread about for Shanghai,
etc. is pure with the Rido Brigade.
wore
so in such with hysterically Hermanvilo, just behind the n. potentially explosive situr happy proletarians dashing Noth, and aches, he be was an
holding...
the wparimeter | It was--and it remains-autono-house, do you?" replied. Mr. notlood?
Bection mous.
round Dunkirk of Military Palica, setting up road signs for the troops to follow.
It seemed to the infantrymen that the Redcaps wake making kfire of being at the benches firat and they foundly abused them.
The policemen, being quite used to that sort of thing, took no
notice.
"Back To Collect
to
Next, day, the troops had passed aafely through this section of the perimeter, guided by the police signs.
The infantrymen, about to re- tire themselves, were surprised. see the same Military Police sec- tion a riding back towards the ad- vaticing, fermento collect our
as the; sert la quained." sent, holly unkira begdlies divisional Provost Contistales of the R.MP
On the
centrots, The Red- other troops;s
ed The
the
-the
ito save contain- pand the bodies place
stes efter Hour, just be Apch as one Military Policeman minutes aft
Hind
the Bersaul) waren, to control Roll another took his place,
flow of men and gehicles The inen who went out to that the
would neros, the bosch ca alic point know hay did Near Quintam the German and two a
tion. Thousands of Chinese about improving the lot of
the trade at but stayed berind to marrbal, the in Hong Kong read or hear the People while Hong
that point
was, blown to pieces by remaining nothing else about Britain Kong cringes, under the ter-attery Shell-fire.
bis successors until and the government here ror of a police state.
So worsh
MALY but denunciations and. This kind of thing cannot the enemy battery was silenced; of
but no army vehkle, over lose its of duty wickedly distorted state- be allowed to continue way at that crossroads. For as· On "huDay!, they landed a few ments. One may well won- this time. We see der how much loyalty" can likelihood of these be expected of this section of freedom, manding ways, although they of the population.
We are informed, to our favoid actually surprise, that no warning propABANAR HAT ADA (tiekis for the has been issued to the Coming. While..applauding the agen, fubuh, much use.
They "Hwa authorities for their presenterad they diet munist vernacular Shiang Pao," which publish- stand, we must hope they ed the release-in-question, will not and has been directly res-fully implement the Warn pottsible for so long for giving at the next false, move ing a distorted view daily to Certainly the Fits readers.
in ditch or a trench, resistance who cannot companies pointeman
porarily bec und went out and lid One morning,ben," Caen had|ing' from tha frfallen but we flisbeing niched, ferrica (ohne sto
by the dnazoam a military palice: Redaapa
across the
man stood on the road optside, the Cone for
will not be realadhand in nem found him. 11 roller found be found we are well aware" reminding them."
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