Evening star., 1934-12-07
Charge Is Made
of Conspiracy
OnNew States.
ASSASSIN PLOT
BLAME SHIFTED
Croats in America
Are Declared
Responsible.
BULLETIN,

BULLETIN.
GENEVA. December 7 "iP.-
Eduard Benes. Czechoslovakian
foreign minister. warned the League
of Nations Council today that if
any one else strikes a blow at the
unity of the Little Entente
CzeChoslovakia. YugoSlavia and
Humanitarian will result.
(CopyrIRht 1894 by the Associated Press
GENEVA, December "A general
conspiracy against the territorial in
tegrity of the new states born of the
World War was charged before the
League of Nations Council today by
Eduard Benes, foreign minister of
CzechoSlovakia.
Benes' startling allegation came
during heated discussion of Yugoslav
charges that the assassination Of
King Alexander at Marseille October
9 was plotted in Hungary.
To this Hungary through her rep
resentative. Thor Eckhardt. countered
with the assertion that Croats. meet
ing in America passed the death sem
tence on Alexander.
Other Grimes Declared Plotted.
A sensation was created by Benes
speech, in the course of which he de-
clared attempts similar to the
Marseille crime were organized against
Slovakia on the Northern Hungarian
frontier"
Criticising Hungarian authorities
for giving asylum to alleged terrorists.
Benes said the forces which permit
organization of gangs of terrorists
seek to detach Croatia from Yugo-
slavia and Slovakia from Czecho-
slovakia
They seek to strike blow at the
historical development of Danubian
Europe" he asserted.
Eckhardts statements were in reply
to direct accusations leveled against
Hungary by Boyolyub Yevltch. Yu-
goslavia's foreign minister. who de-
nounced the Hungarian government.
Declared Menace to Peace.
Yevtich characterized the crime as
grave menace to peace and said
Yugoslavia feels that the outrage at
Marseille was directed against the
Yugoslav nation. of which the King
was the glorious chief"
The Yugoslav foreign minister
charged that the assassination was an
expression of conspiracy organized
and nourished in Hungary" and said
the most serious form of assistance
granted the terrorists was the direct
protection by Hungarian authorities
which he said they enjoyed in Hun
gary.
The Yugoslav charges coming as
they did on a day when reports from
Hungary had told of the Yugoslav
troops crossing into Hungary, were
heard by an audience which packed
the Council chamber.
Yevtich summed up what he called
a chain of overwhelming evidence
agains Hungarian authority and made
the following charges:
l. During the last six years 20
cases of terrorist crimes have been
perpetrated in Yugoslav territory.
?. All these crimes occurred near
the Hungarian frontier.
3. Sentences passed by Yugoslav
courts prove that all these crimes at
tempted were perpetrated by terrorlsts
from Hungary with arms and eX-
plosives.
4. The evidence of terroriStS proved
they received systematic training In
special Hungarian camps
5. The investigation by foreign po-
lice established that three criminals
were chosen in Hungarian territory to
participate in the attempt upon Alex
ander and that they left Hungary
freely with Hungarian passports.
s. A terrorist organization in Hun
gary had abundant financial resources
which exceeded the possibilities of
private source.
Anti Terrorist Treaty Proposed.
Yevtich recommended a general
treaty for the repression of terrorist
activities He said Yugoslavia ap-
pealed to the League only for justice,
believing it her duty to call attention
to perils that menace peace and good
understanding between nations"
"Yugoslavia, said the foreign min
lister, lis convinced the Council will
render a just verdict. 1t hopes its
confidence in the efficiency of the
highest organ of the international
community will not be shaken"
This final phrase was interpreted
in some quarters as meaning that
Yugoslavia might resign from the
League unless the nation received
what she considered satisfaction.
Eckhardt made an immediate reply
in the Council, protesting that all the
accusations were calculated to throw
the responsibility for the crime on the
shoulders of Hungary, describing them
as "a campaign of libel" and not
designed to discover the conspirators.
The Hungarian representative de-
clared thousands of Hungarians were
awaiting ''in ruin and despair" to be
deported from Yugoslavia.