IVAONITORING REPORT

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News & Monitoring Division HQ,-IS

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No. 627 •

14 July 47

Contents

Page Czecnoslovak-Soviet agreement on th..livsery of goodsreached in MoscowBritish release Yugoslav War Crimes Commission'semaployeeTr ade Union elections in Monfalcone factoryBomb 'thrown in PRIMORSKI DNEVNIV s -erumieesSpain' s sarcasm

3 Belgradc.,, •Court s(.z.ntences .spies who allegedlyworked for USASigning of Bulgaro-Soviet trade grco.caent coincideswith meeting in ParisNazi trial • in Ljubljana goes on

5 Eastern bloc comments on 'E):rie talksU.S. exploit Austria's difficulties, charges7Russian generalRumconian Premier arrives to SofiaPerse c uti on of Church ih yugoslavia8

corrupted, charge.s Radio Belgral;Radio Venezia Giulia on paris Confer. -neeAlbanian Premier's expose in Assc.lrably9

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CZECHOSLOVAK-SOVIET AGREEMENT ON DELIVERY OF GOODSREACHED IN M0SOOW

Prague: Today, according to the CzechoslovakTelegraph Agency, a communique on the conclusion of aCzechoslovak-Soviet trade agreement for the next fiveyears has been simultaneedsly and officially announcedin Prague and Moscow. During the talks which wereconducted in a friendly spirit, the communique states,the Czechoslovak and Soviet representatives discussedimportant questions on international policy, andespecially the question concerning the Czechoslovak-Soviet relations. Full agreement has been reached,according to the communique which further stresses thata ,2 oc iel attention was paid to economic questions.-Representatives of both countries have concluded thatwidening of the Czechoslovak-Soviet relations wasnecessary. They concluded a five-year trade agreementwhich guarantees a lasting exchange of goods betweenthese two countries, and also ensures the carrying outof their economic plans. The agreement is based onfixed contingents which will be mutually agreed toever'Sr year by both governments. Deliveries to Cz echo-slovakia mill include mainly agricultural material andartificial fertilizers, while Czechoslovakia in turnwill export to the Soviet Union ner industrial products

(Radio Belgrade in Serbo-Croat, July 12, 23:00)

Prague: The Czechoslovak -delegation, headedby Premier Klement Gotwald . today returned from_Meacew toPrague. Upon it arrival at the airfield, according .toTon j ug correspondent, Premiefz Gotwald made a speechstating, among other . things: "We return from our shortvisit to Moscow with eicellant results.. The MOscownegotiations hove again oroved that the brotherly . SovietUnion is a ... pillar of our Republic, both in thequestion of security and inde pendence of our state andin the economic questions,which, on this occasion, warethe main subject of our negotiations. We: agreed,•stressed President Gotwald, that between Czecnoslovakiaand the Soviet Union an agreement on Antual deliveriesof goods for five years be concluded.. On the basis ofthis agreement the Soviet Union will deliver to Czecho-slovakia in 1948, 100.000 tons of wheat and 200.000 tonsof fodder. There is no doubt that these deliverieswill be of great significance for th e . ensuring of foodto the Czechoslovak population and for the developmentoT Czechoslovak agriculture ..."

(Radio Belgr,Ide in Serbo-Croat, July 12, 24:00)

'BRITISH RELEASE YUGOSLAV WAR CRIMES COMMISSION'S EMPLOYEE

Vienna: Today, after repeated persistentrequests by the chief of the Yugoslav Wax CrimesCommission, the captain of the Yugoslav Army, Konstantin

• Kilibarda, has been relea-Sed. As it is known, he was.arrested by English occupation authorities without anyreason or pretext. Upon his leaving the prison,

• Capt. Kilibarda declared that, *during the time ho spent•in the military prison, he has been ill-treated and hewas not told the reEison for his arrest during all this

• time.. The English authorities did not even inform the• Chief •of the Yugoslav War Crimes Commission about thereasons as to why they arrested Capt. Kilibarda.

(Radio Belgrade in Sarbo-Croat, , July 12123:00)

TRADE UNION ELECTIONS IN MONFALCONE FCTORY

Trieste.: In the ”Solvay'" Factory in Monfalconatrade unions elections were hold at which the list .of

•the Communist Party received 345 votes, the 'Socialists77, and the independent list 93 votes. •

(Radio Belgrade in Serbo-Croat, July . 12, 23:00)

BOMB THROWN IN °PRIMORSKI'DNEVNIK'S'' PREMISES

Trieste: Tanjug correspondent reports that'a bomb thrown by Trieste Fascists on the building ofthe • PRIMORSKI DNEVNIK in the Via Ruggero; caused greatmaterial. damage.'

(Radio Belgrade in Serbo-Croat, July 13, 15:00)

SPAIN'S SARCASM

Madrid Radio early today described the ParisConference as a gathering of starving men trying to agreeupon the best way to divide their friend's bread. Itadded: The only surviving unity in Europe is unity beforethe alms-giver. Fourteen nations have • uccc.,,ded inagreeing to ask for help from the U.S. who thus becomesthe Santa Claus of those democraeiLs now exhibiting'theirmiseries in Paris.

(BBC in English, July 13, 10:00)

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BELGRADE COURT SENTENCES SPIES Oih.0 ALLEGEDLY WORLED FOR U.S.

•Belgrade: The District Court for the City _ofBelgrede has pronounced the sentence over the group of spies,heeded • by Borivoj Paitcslic, former lithographer.has been sentenced to die before firing squad; while GvozdenAleksic got 16 years of prison servitude with forced labormandatory; the five remgining defendants have been sentencedto prison terms, ranging from eight months to five-years.The District Court for the City of Belgrade charged BorivojPan+elic with being guilty of conniving tne overthrow ofthe present state-order in Yugoslavia, and for havingconnected'for this purpose the remnants of Chetnik bands inthe country with foreigners, hostile to Yugoslavia and withagents, of foreign intelligence service. his criminalactivity Pantelic attempted to hide under the work offinding of graves of fallen American aviators with theAmerican military mission in Belgrade. The guilt of allthe defendants WEIS proved by their partial confessions madeduring the trial proceedings.

(Radio Belgrade in Serbo-Croat, July 12, 2300) .

(Pantelic and Aleksic's Confession)

Pantelic confessed that after nis leaving the ,arlay

in Marcn 1946 he entered the American service at 3.000 dinarsPa7 (a monta). dug graves in Kosutnjak. There he wasbrought by tne driver Florak who expressed the desire to knowthe Chetniks, because, he said, me does not like the presentYugoslavia. For this he promised Pantelic a fat reward. Onthis desire of the Afierican he spoke to Gvozden Aaoksic, whoagreed to go to his village and see if there were any Chetniksin the surroundings. Througn his brother Sreten, Ovozdenlea rne d that thee are still a few Chetniks in tne Kacordistrict. Puntelic told this to Florek. Sin.ce the Cnetniks,as a proof of sincerity, demanded arms, Florek gave to Pantelicsix bombs and about 100 bullets. In May 1946, Pantelic endthe t wo Aleksic brotners went to the village of Boljkovce,where triey ar2anged a meeting between the Chetaiks and Americans.The meeting took place on the next day and it was attended byPrskalo and four other Chetniks, and florek and two Americanofficers. At the meeting, an American officer declared that hewould help them in case a war came about against Yugoslavia.4 We shall give you ammunition, arms, food and clothing,4thisofficer said. Tile Americans showed infercst for the airfieldin the village of Pranjani. They wanted,at any cost, to see thisairfield. having spent tile night in Boljkovac, they departedfor Pranjane in the morning. Tte accused Pantelic declared thathe had realized afterwards that it had been a question ofespionage. Florek told him daily tnat America 1C.11 declarewar against Yugoslavia.

Gvozden Aleksic feels partly guilt'd. He declaresimpertinently that he did not see unytning, wrong in that nofollowed the council of American officers net tc s2eak to trio'organs of people's autnority about the meeting be +5hoe: theAmericans and tne Chetniks.

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SIGLING OF BULGARO-SOVIET TRADX AGREEMENT COINCIDES WITH•VMETING IN PARIS

In connection with the s:Lgning of atrade .agreement between the Soviet Union •an. the PR.Bulgaria,the .Pa per DRUZBA publishes an article in which it points tothe fact that the new trade agreement was signed on tneeve of the meeting of the Paris oriference at which theMarshall Plan on the so-called help to European countrieswill be discussed. The paper underlines that theMarshall Plan aims at dividing Europe into two parts andat subordinating the European economy to the USA. Thetrade a greement between the Soviet Union and thc PRBulgaria, the paper states, is founded on mutual-respectof natonal sovereignty. It points to the right road

• of postwar economic collaboration which ensures Q

permanent revival and economic development of thecountries which sufferd from the German fascist aggressor.

(Radio Belgrade in Serbo-Croat, July ).5, • 00:01)

NAZI TRIAL IN LJUBLJANA GOES ON

In continuation of tne trial of a group of warcriminals, the hearing of tzle former Gauleiter ofCarinthia, Reiner, and Dr. Helmut Glaser was concl.uded.Gauleiter Reiner was a high Nazi functionary. Hoattempted to convince the court that he had had no closeconnections with the commander of tno police troops,former General Reasoner. He declared that GeneralRoesener on his awn initiative carried out some operationsdirected against the Slovsne people. As Gauleiter andChie of the civil administration, Reiner is responsiblefor physical and economic annihilation of the SlovenePeople. He approved of all the heavy crimes of theGestapo and other political organizations. dn,-, of tiemethods for the annihilation of the Slovene peopleconsisted in burning down many villages in Slevon'la.One of the gr.atest Nazi crimes in Slovenia - the burningdown of the village of Dragoze near Skofja Loka wasexp l ained. The burning down of this village was adirect consequence of the arrival of police units andreinforcements which Reiner demanded.

(Radio Belgrade in berbo-Croat, July lb, 15:00)

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EASTERN BLOC COMMENTS ON PARIS TALKS American Businessmen's Crude hands at Work

Paris: In connection with t o day's ()pollingof the Faris Conference, TASS stresses that the Yugc›-slay , Czechoslovak and Polish delegations are notpresent at the Conference and that Rumania, BUlgaria,Finland, Hungary and Albania also rejected theinvitation. 'The participation of Greece, TurkoY,Austria, Portugal, Italy and Ireland cannot bssurprise,' states TASS in its comment, "because no oneoverrates the possibilities of these countries inconnection witn Europe's reconstruction." These•countries - furtner says TASU - ready to surrendei . tothe Anglo-American-French organization, can be includedin the category of Greece. They are so very muchentangled in the finencial net of the USA that theywill be forced to follow the present American courseuntil their inevitable catastrophe. But, all thecountries which participate in the conference are notin *he same position. This concerns tnecountries which agreed to participate in the conferencewith certain reservations. TASS further states thaton the agendq of the Conference there is the unrealisticand abstract Marshall Elan. But, behind, beneth andabove the scenes of the Conference there work the veryreal and crude hands of American businessmen. TheAmerican representative in Peris has already employed

• 11?etho d e of intimidation. He has already warned thatthose European .countries which do not participate inthe so-called Marshall Plan will not receive anyeconomic help from the USA in the future. The USAwill put the conditions under which they will giveloans to European countries. These few sober wordsof the Amer icon representative, TASS states, havedestroyed the idyllic fancy of the alleged unselfish-ness and humaneness of the USA about which thespecially trained Anglo-French press raised noiseuntil exhaustion. Accordingly, the fact that, theAgence France PreSse observer concluded, his yesterday'spolitical survey with certain pessimism, cannot be asurprise. It seams, TASS quotes him as having said,tha t the Conference will begin its work in an extra-ordinary complicated situation.

(Radio Belgrade in Serbo-Croat, July 12, 23:00)

Rude Pravo" Gives Czechoslovak View

The Czech paper RUDE PRAVO stresses that theParis Conference is under proseure and tnat it must,,.in +flu first piece, meet the demands of Americanmonopolies wnicil are looking for new markets becauseof the fear of an increasing crisis of the home market • • •

•This paper's diplomatic correspondent, Andrej siman,writes that the s0 .7'ca1led. European conference . in-Parisia l directed against the .24jorit y; of Europeans. It -.has.. been: proved se ftr, writes RUDE PRAVO, that only theSoviet :Union defends ,noW; as well as it did in the past,

-the independence and soVe:i:eignty,of small Peopleaegad, nst the big Ones. : The Slav people s . cannotreconcile themselves. to the fact that a reward for Whatthey . suffered in ho: War. be the economic, and; -consequently political rehabilitation of Germany underAngle-Ameri can Super.vision.'

(Radio Belgrade in Sorbo-Croat

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The •Albanian paper BASHICIMI, writing in thesame connection, says that the Albanian people cannot •

sell their sovcireignty and indopQndenc(3 for Truman'sdollars. The main aims of the Paris Conforeacc oreexpressed in the endeavor to divide the world in tWOblocs, which nas always been a dream of the inter-national Reaction. Therefore, says BASHKIMI, thisconference is directed aguinat the independence andsovereignty of European countries; aguinst good inter-national relations; end, therefore, against peace, tee.The Albanian people cannot permit any meddling in theiraffairs as provides the Anglo-French plan. In thereconstruction of their country, the AllxAllic,n peoplo "rely upon their own efforts and upon the nclp cf theirsincere friends. Meanwhile, the USA attitue •towardaAlbania, concludes BASHKIMI, is one more proof of howmuch sincere tna so-called Marshall Plan is.

(Radio Belgrade in Serbo-Creat, July l3,.15:00)

"Izvestia'' Charges Imposing of Anglo-.Brench aill onPeoples of Europe

'Moscow: The IZVESTr IA' S international observerwrites that the foreign pross, in a hypocritical manner,has drawn the attention to Soviet Union's nen-2articipetionin +he Cenfer nco of tile Big Tizee Foccign Ministers. TheIZITESm IA stresses that the foreign press has aimed only utpu++ing tile !dame • n the innocent in order to eivort theLlttenticn of the public opinion from the real intentionsof the initiators of this conference. However, concludesthe IZVESTIA, i+ is clear now that benind the studying oftie Marshall Plan hide the endeavors to find a moans forthe imposing of the Anglo-Frencn will upon the poles ofEurope.

(Radio Belgrade in Serbo-Croat, JulY 13, 00:01)

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U.S. EXPLOIT AUSTRIA'S DIFFICULTIES, CHARGES RUSSIAN GENERAL

Vienna: The Supremo Commissar of the USSR inAustria, General Kurasov, made a declaration at the meetingof the Allied Council with regard to tne Austro-Aaericanagreement. Kurasov declared tnat tne US exploit thedifficulties of the economic rehabilitation of Austria andthe needs of tilt Austrian people in order to impose suchconditions to this country for the concessions of helpwhich place tnis country into an ecceptionel situation ofa U.S. dependency. Toucning upon various articles of theagreement, General Lurasov underlined that tney representedneither more nor less the astablisnment of an unliaitedAmerican control over the entire Austrian economic life.The conditions of the Austro-American treaty, said Generalhurasov, are in contradiction with Moscow declarations onAustria and damage the interests of other Allied powers14licn assumed the obligation of reconstructing Austria'sindependence, and, in addition, they brutally violate tneagreement on the mechanism of control over Austria. Inconclusion General hurasov declared that the Soviet Comaandin Austria cannot a6ree with tnis holp, - the help whichhampers the restoration of Austria's sovereignty.

(Radio Moscow in Italian, July 12, 22:30)

• RUMANIAN PREMIER ARRIVES TO SOFIA

Sofia: The delegation of the Rumanian Government,needed by eremier Groz.-;, arrived this mornins to Sofiq.The delegation was welcomed by the .President of the -Bulgarian Govei . nment Mr. Dimdtrov, and other meL.bors Ofthe Bulgarian Government. Speaking to the Bulgarian peopleover the micropnone at the Sofia railroad station, PremierGroza pointed out that a new period has been opened inthe relations of our two neighboring countries. By thedemocratic order in their respective countries al:d by theeliminating of the remnants ef Fascism the peoples of13ukgaria and Rumania have contributed to the strengtheningand building of a better future for the good of )eace andprogress of the countries of tne Danubian Basin. Dr.eetruGrOza also said that the common road of both p,oples willbe sealed by the deepening of friendsnip, economic andcu14-ura1 collaboration, and by an aver stronger politicalSolidarity...

(Radio Belgrade in Sarbo-Croat, July 13, 23:00)

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pERSEGUTION OF GHURCh IN YUGOSLAVIA

Speaking in London, file Roman Catholic CardinalGriffin said that the porsecUtion of the Church in Yu go-slavia corres,,onde to the most horrible crimes which havebeen carried out by the Nazis ho appealed to all tilenatione to carry out an investigation. Out of 218priests, no in Yugoslavia have bean sentenced to death,said Cardinal Griffin, 186 were executed without benefitof , any trial. It is known, continued Cardinal Griffin,tha t thore are 200 priests in prison . ,. It is clear,added Cardinal Griffin, that the Yugoslav Governmentintends to renounce God and impose atheism.

(BBC in Serbo-Croat, July 13, 15:45)

CORRUPTED CHARGES RADIO BELGRADE

Trieste: Having. reported on the arrest ofkaj. Richardson and Maj. Squire, Radio Belgrade, quotingPRIMORSKI DNEVNIK, says: According to reports, the'embaz:lements of funds in the Public Works Division inTrieste reach a staggering amount of several hundredmillion dollars." • • • I I. •. ..;"„ , 4-. _40

• t 1. ' '"Trieste nes become the city,of ... and that ever greeter scandals are being discoveredwhich completely prove that the administration of theTrieste territory is doubious and fully corruptod. Thehigh posts in tile Trioste offices are occupied by thosewho were on these positions also during the German occu-pation. here are also Yugosla y s and Polish collaborationists,German and various other Fascists.

(Radio Belgrade in Serbo-Croat, July 13, 20:30)

RADIO VENEZIA GIULIA ON PARIS CONFERENCE

Paris: A high American functionary of theState Department, now in France, declared in an interviewthat the US mad_ their last effort to make all thoEuropean nations ' realize tile opportunity ( of the U,3help), and that Americo would reject from now on any -assistance to those nations wnich refuse to prticivatein the sound action of European ecotkomicThis declaration cc,n be considered as the first officialattitude of tno US after the elaboration of the programof the European economic rehabilitation by General Marshall.The high American functionary observed that the problem ofthe European rehabilit_Ition cannot have several worldsolutions but only one which snould contain ... 2,uropeaneconomic situation.,

. (Radio Venozia Giulia in Italian, July 12, 21:30)

ALBANIAN PREMIER'S EXPOSE IN ASSEMBLY

Tirana: According to the Albanian 'TelegraphAgency at the yesterday's third ordinary session of theAlbanian Notional Assembly, the Albanian premier GeneralHoxa made an expoSe of the internal and foreign policyof the Albanian Government. In his review of the internalpolicy General Hoxn str:issed that the Albanian Governmentis now working on the drafting of a five-year plan.whichwould be, in the shortest time, brought before the NationalAssembly. Speaking on the foreign policy, General Enver .hoxa pointed out that the attitude of the American andBritish governments towards PR Albania cannot be calledfriendly at all. This attitude can be explained, said he,only by tri fact that tne American and British Governmentsdo not wisn well to the Albanian per)ple who became the masterof his own fate. Were quislings and Fascists in power inAlbania, the American and British Governments would surelyrecognize tnam, General i .loxa said and added that tile

Albanian Government possesses important documents whichprove tnat certain British and American representatives inAlbania tried with the help of Albanian agents to underminethe people's authorities, and that, tney were eparingsabotage and dirty cries against the sovereignty of theAlbanian people. Touching upon the criminal activity ofthe Greek Monerenofescists agaihst Albania, General EnverHoxa declared that these crimes represent only a part of ageneral plan of the Anglo -American Reaction whose goal isto provoke a new war. • Mentioning the Paris Conference,General Enver hoxa said that the Marshall Plan is anotherform of the Truman Doctrine, of the Dollar Policy ofenslaving th;. peoples. Stressing Albania's friendshipwith the democratic countries, General Hoxa said that,besides the friendship with the USSR, the union with Yugo-slavia is the expression of a celebrated past and commonfuture wnich will be built by the peoples of Yugoslavia andAlbania.

(Radio Belgrade in Serbo-Oroat, July 13, 23:00

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