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recently.
The pact would commit each of
the signatories to join in resisting
an attack on any one of them.
Each nation would decide for it
self whether it would use armed
i force in meeting the attack,
i In Stockholm. Lt. Gen. Helge
Jung, commander in chief of Swe
; den’s armed forces, said last night
he hoped a defense alliance could
be worked out between his coun
try, Norway and Denmark “before
it is too late.” |
Jung declared Sweden could not
defend herself if cut off from sup
plies from the west.
Sweden has steered clear so far
of the Atlantic Pact. Some high
sources predict she will join with- 1
in six months.
An Istanbul informant said
Turkish minister Necmeddin Sa
dak is expected to go to Washing
ton soon to talk over a proposed
Mediterranean defense alliance. j
At Rhodes, Israel and Trans
jordan agreed last night on arm
istice lines dividing between them
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the Holy City of Israel—sacred V
Christians, Moslems and Jews.
The agreement, based on their
Nov. 30 truce talks, covers the en
tire Jerusalem sector.
The Italian news agency Astra
reported in Rome last night that
Soviet troops and anti-Tito Yugo
slav forces are massing along Yu
goslavia’s frontiers. The Bulgar -
ian government said in Sofia that
reports of such concentrations are
“groundless and fabrications.”
The Astra report added that the
radio of the cominform has been
clamoring for “direct action to
bring down the regime of Marshal
Tito.”
Tito has been in bad grace with
the Soviet Union and its comin
form satellites, who accuse him of
leading Yugoslavia’s communist
government away from Marxist
teachings.
In China, communist attempts
to cross the Yangtze river appear
ed near today. At the same time
Red uprisings in South China
grew.
A government spokesman said
100,000 Manchurian Red troops
had reinforced the communists at
Suchow, 100 miles northwest oT
Nanking. Other troops under Red
C»en. Lin Pina's command, wore
massed just north of the capital.
Fridav. March 18, 1949
The Italian chamber of deputies
beating down a dogged left s* fili
buster, voted tonight to authorize
the government to negotiate Iiuly’s
adherence to the North Atlantic
defense alliance.
The vote on the resolution of
confidence in the government’s
foreign policy was 342 to 170.
The pro-communist social i s t
leader, Pietro Nenni, said Italian
adherence to the pact would be an
“invitation for the invasion of our
country.”
The filibuster ran three days be
fore the matter came to a vote.
Sporadic Red-inspired violence
occurred in Rome, Milan, Genoa
and other areas. It was quickly
quelled by police however.
Elsewhere there were reverber
ations, too.
Moscow’s trade union newspa
per Trud today blasted what it
termed the “new aggressive pol
icy” of Norway’s labor party and
called for a Norweigian-Russian
non-aggression pact to reduce
“tension in the north.”
Norway has already turned
down a Russian offer of a non
aggression treaty on the grounds
that membership in the United
Nations made such a treaty un
necessary.
Norway’s dominant labor party
led the move to put Norway in the
North Atlantic agreement.
Albania’s deputy foreign minis
ter Tuk Jakova charged today Yu
goslavia attempted to make his
country dependent on it for bread
by ordering Albania to plant cot
ton instead of wheat. He said Al
bania ignored the order.
Spreading rumors of impending
action in the Bankans against the
government of Premier Marsha)
Tito have produced no visible re
action in Belgrade. There has been
no official comment and no great
alarm in private circles.
Yugoslavia was expelled from
the cominform last year and ac
cused of deviating from the Marx
ist- Leninist line. ,
South China Red revolts caused
apprehension in Nanking today.
Premier Ho Ying-Chin reportedly
rushed selection of a cabinet to
cope with the new crisis created
by the southern situation and
threatened Red crossings of the
Yaugtze River which skirts Nan
king.