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    "ocrText": "THE SITUATION IN YUGOSLAVIA\nDuring March 1945 the so-called Subasic-Tito Agreement\nwas implemented by the appointment of a Regency Council and\nthe formation of a National Provisional Government. The for-\nmation of an enlarged legislative body as recommended by the\nYalta Conference has not yet taken place. During March Em-\nbassies of the United States, Great Britain and the Soviet\nUnion were established at Belgrade.\nPresent indications are that the Provisional Government\nintends to maintain itself in power by force and in reliance\non support by Russia. For all practical purposes Yugoslavia\nseems to be definitely in the Soviet orbit. The head of the\nGovernment, Marshal Tito, is a Communist, taking his direc-\ntives from Moscow. Communist-dominated governments in five\nof the six \"federal\" states have recently been set up, and in\neach case no semblance of democratic procedure has been fol-\nlowed. It also appears that the decisions taken by Tito's\nhand-picked Partisan Congress which met at Jajce in November\n1943 are regarded as constituting the basic and unalterable\nlaw of the land.\nIt thus appears that there is no intention to carry out\nthe principles of the Yalta Declaration on Liberated Europe\nand to \"form interim governmental authorities broadly repre-\nsentative of all democratic elements in the population and\npledged to the earliest possible establishment through free\nelections of governments responsible to the will of the\npeople.\" Reports of ruthless extermination of political op-\nponents of the Communists, of confiscation of property with-\nout justification, or persecution of the clergy, of drastic\nlaws passed by Tito's selected legislature and of unfair\ntrials are being received from what are regarded as reliable\nsources.\nSince we have no extensive material interests in Yugoslavia,\nour policy is to insist on non-discriminatory economic and\ncommercial treatment, and on the broader lines to lend our\nsupport to the development of a healthy and independent national\nlife of the Yugoslav people, and SO far as possible to bring\nabout a solution of internal problems which now have the ele-\nments of civil war. The Yugoslav need of economic aid from\nabroad and its interest in help from this country may afford\nus a means of implementing this policy."
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