Evening star., 1949-11-07
A-o THE EVENING STAR Washington, D. c.
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Reds Around World
Join With Russia in
Holiday Celebration
BY fhs Assoeiofsd Press

communists around the world
Joined Russia today in celebrat-
Ing the Soviet Unions 32d birth
day. the anniversary of the 1917
revolution.
In Berlin, the Red-controlled
East German government trum-
peted claims that Russian Com
munism Is here to stay and the
rest OF the world may as well
accept it.
Chancellor Otto Grotewohl de-
clared Russian progress "is SO
gigantic that the foreign coun-
tries cannot ignore it any longer"
Bulgaria's Communist Foreign
Minister, Vladimir Poptomov, yes
terday used Sofas celebration to
hint his government soon might
try a former Communist deputy
premier. Traicho Kostov, for al
legged plotting with agents Of
Yugoslavia's Marshall Tito. the
United States and Great Britain.
Bulgaria's government, said
Poptomov, is ''unravelling proofs
that the Traicho Kostovists and
the company around them have
been the main agents of Tito's
clique and Anglo-American intel
Igence in our country" 4
Tito Sends Greetings.
The alleged conspiracy. he de-
clared, was "aimed at tearing
away our country from the Soviet
Union and handing her over to
Tito's band, thus turning her into
q colony of the Anglo-American
imperialists.
Soon our society will have the
possibility to learn the specific
facts on this disgusting treach-
cry" Poptomov said. /
But Marshal Tito's Yugoslav
government. though the target for
some Of RuSsia's severest recent
criticism, sent birthday greetings
to Moscow along with the satel-
lites still high in Kremlin favor.
A Tanjug dispatch broadcast
from Belgrade said the president
of the Yugoslav National Assem-
bly, Executive Committee wired
sincere greetings and best wishes
for the well being of the people
Of the Soviet Union"
Argentina contributed a jarring |
note to the anniversary week end.
Federal police in Buenos Aires
arrested 705 persons at a Com
munist Party celebration. They
were accused of disorderly con-
duct for refusing to disband their
meeting.
The police said municipal au-
thorities first authorized the gath
ering. then decided the audience
would be unsafe.
Incident in Jerusalem.
Jerusalem had minor diplo-
matte incident because of the,
Communist anniversary. A Rus
sian monk raised three Com
munist flags. complete with star,
hammer and sickle. over the Is
rael Supreme Court Building.
The court building, in the holyi
city's Russian compound, is. leased
by the government from the Rus
sian Orthodox Church.
The Israel Foreign Ministry pro-
tested about the flags to the Soviet
legation at Tel Aviv. But late
yesterday they were still flying.
In satellite Czechoslovakia, Com
munist Premier Antonin Zapo-
tocky sent congratulations to
Stain. Interior Minister Vaclav
Nosek unveiled a memorial to Red
Army soldiers at Kladno, in Bo-
hemia.
At Bucharest, Secretary-G Cen
eral Gheorghe Gheorgiu-Dej of
the Romanian Workers (Commu-
nist) Party graphically called for
reorganization of the state appa-
ratuS and army"
Romania's Foreign Minister Ana
Pauker told a rally of railway
workers the country offers liberty
for the working class but none for
those who want to restore the "old
order"
Some $500 Londoners gathered
in Empress Hall for a program
sponsored by the British Soviet
Society. BY acclamation they ap-
proved a greeting to Stain.