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. Bakaric, the Communist Premier of Croatia, and easily
the most popular member of the Tito regime, is very ill. The res
gime tries to hide this, since the news would hurt it greatlye
Bakaric suffers of 9B of a very advanced stage.

The efforts of the Tito regime to build a redoubt án
the Bosnia-Herzegovina area continues, The area is rapidly fure
nished with everything needed for guerilla warfare, which is abe
viously planned by the regime if the Kominfomm forces should
strike, Our observers nevertheless point out, that they do not
believe in the ability of the Tito regime to organize a guerilla@.

to say the least this helr is completely
absent, the population of Bosnia-Hercegovina being probably the
most violently Anti-tito group in the country.

RUMANIA :

A very strong propaganda is being started by the gover¬
nement in the schools, hat the Rumanians are not a Latin race _
but in reality Slavs. As help to this line, beginning this fall;
the latin language will no longer be taught in most schools %
it will be replaced by Russian, RT ee

CZECHO—SLOVAKIA s o
The recently propagated news of the purge of Ladislav

Koprive is inaccurate, He has not been purged but was demoted

because of errors in office, It would be an error to link his —

case with the one of Slansky. ae

MBXICO 3

Following the Memorandum of the top agents which were —
reported a few months earlier, the Mexican Communists have now
been not only forbidden from pressing Cardenas but also from
uniting with Henriquez. They thus had to put up the pro-foma
candidacy of Vicente Lombardo Toledano, who has not the slightest

this connection is is noteworthy that in recent Unioa rN egy

the Communists have been able to gain quite some ground, “his
surprising fact is encouraging the governemental factors amd =
the p&riotic trade unions CROM and others to study the possibi= ~~
lity of outlawing the Communist Party altogether after the elec=
tions, Such a policy would get the entimsiastie support of the USA.

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