OPINION

July 7, 1958

MOSCOW AGAINST TITO: London, 5 – Press attacks in countries behind the Iron Curtain against Yugoslav leader Josip Broz Tito are continuing. Tito is being accused of revisionism, and even of sacrificing the interests of the Yugoslav people to Western imperialism. At the same time the Soviet press is trying to justify Moscow’s refusal to give Tito funding it has promised, blaming him for his people’s deteriorating financial straits. GREECE AND THE WEST: Following the bloodshed in the Cypriot villages of Avkoron, Gerakies and Lyssi, near Famagusta, Greek Foreign Minister Evangelos Averof has lodged a strong protest with the British charge d’affaires. Yesterday Averof received the US and French ambassadors but later said that the meeting had not been of any particular significance. Asked to comment on the reported refusal of US Secretary of State John Foster Dulles to meet him in Paris, Averof said that there had been no arrangement for such a meeting. He also denied that the government had proposed the establishment of NATO headquarters in Greece. According to reports, the proposal had been made by Greek military officials.

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