Evening star., 1948-07-01
Yugos|av: Troops
And Reds Rally
To Tito Support
Division Elects Him
To Communist Porty
Session on July n
By the Associoted Press

BELGRADE, Yugoslavia, July
1.-The Communists and soldiers
OF Yugoslavia rallied around
Premier Marshal Tito today, CIV
ing him strong support in his
defiant stand against the Co.
minform.
Men who fought beside Tito in
his days as guerrilla leader
the 1st Proletarian Division of the
Yugoslav Army-elected Tito as q
delegate to the fifth Communist
Party congress, where Yugoslavia S
political future may well be decided
Tito showed up in Belgrade YES
terday for the first time since the
Cominform blast on Monday. He
was greeted with shouts of Tito
Tito" from youth brigade whose
work he inspected.
tGovernment radio monitors
in Washington reported today
that broadcast from Com
munist headquarters in Albania
said that country stands with
Russia in the Communist crisis
over Yugoslavia.
tThe broadcast accused Yugo-
slav leaders of open treason"
crhe monitoring services rec
ord OF the broadcast is being
distributed among top officials of
the State Department and else
where.
ut said the Cominform reso-
lutions blasting Marshal Tito
had been studied at a special
meeting by the "plenum of the
central Committee of the Al
banlan Communist Party" and
that the Central Committee is
in full and unanimous solidar-
lty" with the Cominform resolu-
tion.)
SlOvenes Back Tito.
Today the Central Committee of
the Communist Party of Yugoslavia
received telegram from the Slo-
venla Central Committee rejecting
the Cominfo1m charges against Tito.
Said the Slovenian Communists:
I'VE cannot be shaken for a
in our confidence in our
leadership. the Central Committee
and Tito"
Inc Cominform7 the organization
OF the Eastern Communist states
led by the Soviet Union-charged
Tito with conducting hateful pol
icy toward the Soviet Union and
one opposed to accepted Commu-
mist theory.
The Yugoslav Party Congress will
be held here July 21. In a program
for the event published in the Com
munist newspaper Borba yesterday
the Yugoslav Central Communist
Committee upheld Yugoslav inde-
pendence and called for a Balkan
bloc of Yugoslavia, Bulgaria and
Albania. Bulgaria previously ad-
vocated such a bloc.
Bulgarian Leaders Assailed.
Today Borba took a crack at Bull
garian Communist Party leader
ship for supporting the Cominform
charge. 1t asked how the Bulgar-
ian people can draw closer to a peo-
pie whose leaders are charged by
Bulgarian leadership with "the most
fantastic things"
isn't there danger in this for
the cause of further close ties and
brotherhood? it asked.
(The Belgrade radio broadcast
an editorial from Borba accusing
Bulgarian leaders of trying to
widen the split between Tito and
the Cominform. 1t appeared to
be the first hint of a widened
breach between Tito and Bull
garian Premier Georgi Dimitrov.
Both are Moscow-trained Com
munists.
CSome people may say that we
have decided to leave the Social
ist front and democracy and, also,
there may be a funny Official
decision that we are not any more
in the 'front.'" said the editorial.
mo one can expel our party and
our country from this front 49, ="
(Borba said the nationalist
charge against the Yugoslav
Communist Party and it's leaders
was fabricated at the last mo-
(See YUGOSLAVIA, Page A-4.)