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A pedinay go to Vo inepee rides ee a long list of massacres and “genocides” by the Comminisietn some on a larger scale. A reminder of this truth was sent recently to the Congress's Katyn Committee by the Croatian National Committee in U.S.A. Their letter drew attention to the fact that in May, 1045, the Croatian Army was disarmed by the British at Klagen furt and handed over to “Tito’s” partisans. “Since that day, no one has heard a word from many of thos 140,000 Croatian soldiers.” Affidavits exist, however— signed by men who escaped to Austria—to the effect that over 100,000 of these men were slaughtered and buried in mass graves at Bleiburg and Maribor, by troops under the command of General Popovic. These men were regular troops, and had not been accused of any crimes or been given any trial whatever. The writers are prepared to submit the names of witnesses, and leaves it to the Com mitter to send a delegation to Inspect the graves of the victims. It reminds its members, died, that the murdered en have relatives among some hundred thousand Ameri can citizens of Croatian origin. For the present, of course, nothing will be done about this mass-murder by the Jugoslav Reds, because the ex pediencies of the new situation have made the tyrant “Tito” our partner in virtue of his personal feud with the Stalinism of the Cominform. ‘The raising of the Croatian issue, however, inspires the reflection that the moral protests of the Western Powers against atrocities would carry far more weight if it were not 20 evident that they are prepared to be blind to all kinds of horrors which it does not serve their purpose to recognize. It was so when Next savageries and persecutions were ad vertised and those of Soviet Fun is ignored: it is still so today, when reputable British and American politicians are prepared to show the warmest goodwill towards the criminal gangsters in Belgrade.
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Melbourne Advocate
Melbourne, Victoria, AU
Thu, Mar 20, 1952
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