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By the Associated Press

g NEW YORK, Nov. 30.-United
Nations delegations speculated to-
day whether Yugoslavia will seize
an opportunity in the General
Assembly to blast back at the
Cominform's latest offensive
against Premier Marshal Tito.
Many feel the Assembly's con-
sideration of rival Russian and
American-British proposals for
strengthening peace gives Tito's
spokesmen a big opportunity to
talk back to the Kremlin.
Whether the Yugoslavs will
make such a move is not def
nitely known. Yugoslavia got on
the speakers list for today's
plenary session of the Assembly
at Flushing Meadow. 1t was re-
ported, however, that the Yugo-
slavs might not exercise their
right to participate in the de-.
bate.
Britain Starts Debate.
Regardless of whether she &C
cepts the Cominform's challenge
here or not, this much is clear:
Yugoslavia is in a key position to
pointedly ask Russia what she
means when she speaks OF peace
i'm the u. N. while the COMM
form plots against Tito.
Britain's U. N. delegation was
scheduled to lead off today's de-
bate on the rival peace plans.
Czechoslovakia. White Russia.
Chile and Norway also were
among the IA nations listed as
prepared to speak.
The Assembly is expected to
give overwhelming support to the
American-British proposal which
reaffirms the peace pledges OF the
United Nations Charter.
Russia's competing plan was
showed under in the 59-nation
Political Committee at Lake Sue
cess last week. 1t would con-
denim the United States and Brit
ain for what Soviet Foreign Min
lister Andrei Y. Vishinsky calls
widespread preparations for war
against the Soviet Union.
Austin AdmOnishes Soviet.
American Ambassador Warren
r. Austin urged the Soviet Union
yesterday to Give and let live"
and to act in good faith with
other peoples if the Russians
really want peace. He spoke in
the U. N. Assembly.
Some delegates said privately
that Mr.. Austin's prescription for
peace also could have been an
answer to the Cominform's blast
at Yugoslavia yesterday. but that
1t was obvious he was replying di-
rectly to Soviet charges that the
United States and Britain are
preparing for new war.
Mr.. Vishinsky started the final
round in the Assembly on his So
called peace plan which already
had been rejected by the Political
Committee. He recited a long
history of what he called the
Soviet struggle for peace Then
he struck at The United States
and Britain with old charges and
wound up by saying military and
civilian leaders in the United
States are engaged in thorough, |
business like American way" of
preparing for war. ...
Mr.: Austin, obviously aroused,
strode to the rostrun1. He told
the Assembly the Russians have
not co-operated with the rest of
the world and that a new peace
pact would be hampered by the
same old story Of non-co-opera-
ton.
More Epithets Hurled.
The Soviet Ukraine's foreign
minister Dmitri z. Manuilsky told
the Assembly certain unidentified
"war- -mongers" in the United
States and Britain are cock
reaches, lice and beetles
These remarks were allowed to
stand in the record, because he
did rot name any personalities.
But he got a rebuke for calling
q Lebanese delegate-not men
toned by name-an ignoramus
and for saying in effect that any
resemblance between French Dele
gate Jean Chauvel and Socrates
was purely physical.
These references were ruled out
of the record by Assembly Presi-
dent Carlos P. Romulo, who has
on campaign to cut down on
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