Evening star., 1947-10-09
I YugosIav Diplomats
0usted by Chile for
Aiding Red Campaign
By the Assoeiotsd Press

py INC AsSoetotso ff0ss
SANTIAGO, Chile, Oct. g.
Two Yugoslav diplomats, accused
by the Chilean government Of
fomenting, on orders from home,
a Communist campaign against
the United States and hen1i-
sphere solidarity, were expelled
from Chile last night.
An official statement said
the two men-Andrej Cunja, Yugo-
slav Charge d'Affaires, and Dalibor
Jakasa, secretary Of the Yugoslav
Legation In Buenos Aires, q visitor
in Santiago-were acting for the
new Communist International head
quarters in Belgrade and had re-
ceived instructions to:
"A. Intensity and coordinate a
campaign against the United States
of America in order to bring the
greater democratic sectors over to
join themselves to Soviet strategy
against the western democracies.
"B. Attack the policy Of CONT
mental defense.
&C. Develop plan Of sabotage
Of production. either by means of
slowing work or causing strikes and
conflicts IN industries producing
raw materials"
Moved to Argentina.
! Cunja and Jakasa were taken by
automobile to Mendoza, Argentina,
just across the border.
| 1t was announced officially just
before midnight that President
Gabriel Gonzalez Videla had noti-
! fed President Juan D. Peron Of
Argentina of his action to counter
balance the energetically revolu-
tionary plan of the Communist
Party" and that Gen. Peron had
informed Gonzalez Videla that he
would take the necessary steps to
defend Argentine sovereignty
Officials said Foreign Minister
Vergara Donoso told the Yugoslavs
they had seriously infringed the
hospitality of our, country and
acted against its independence with
subversive aims"
Government authorities earlier
had attributed strike Of $4,000
Chilean coal miners, now entering
its fifth day, to Communist
revolutionary plot instigated by a
Russian satellite. The miners say
they want more money. One group
of the miners rejected last night
government offer of 80 to 40 per
cent increases.
/ Linked to Generals Visit.
| The government statement con-
cerning the custer of the Yugoslavs
SAID intensifcation in Chile of "the
labor in which international COM
munism is engaged" dated from
visit last year by Gen. Ljubomir Illic.
who attended presidential inaugural
ceremonies here as representa-
tive of Marshal Tito, the Yugoslav
Premier.
During his visit" the statement
said, Gen. Ilic established contacts
and maintained repeated confer
ences with Communist leaders in
Santiago and the provinces
Before leaving, the statement con-
tinued, Ilic and Cunja, resident Of
Chile since 1887, accredited as
charge d'affaires, in which post he
Sustained contact with leaders and
members of the Communist Party
in Chile and, with the pretext Of
establishing greater bonds between
Yugoslavia and Chile, encouraged
the organization of groups Of ra-
tionals of descendants of Yugoslavs
in which were inf1ltrated members
of the Communist Party"
Arrived With Instructions.
Jakasa, the statement added, ar
rived few days ago. "the bearer of
instructions which Senor Cunja was
to carry out"
The statement said the three-point
program outlined for the Commu-
nists in Chile was faithfully full
filled by both the Communist Party
in Chile and other parties on the
continent
\ Since, the statement said, the gov
ernment had evidence of an init
mate link" between the Communist
Latin American Office in Argentina
and the so-called Comintern head
quarters in Belgrade, Chilean off,
cials decided to "end the activities
of Cunja and Sakasa because they
were convinced of the total effec-
tiveness' they had 'in plans Of
Communist agitation in Chile"
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