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Î FURTHER CRISES MUST BE
f ANTICIPATED
Surge Of Soviet Power
"The Mercury" Special Service
\[EW YORK, Sun.-Only a complete optimist would not antici
^ pate other crises in .nebulous regions from the Baltic and
the Balkans through the Middle East to China, says C. L. Sulz-
berger, of the "New York Times."
I J^EVTEWING last week's crisis over
Yugoslavia, Sulzberger says the
surge of confident Soviet dynamism
is pushing in all directions and will
progress wherever it does not find a
dam opposing it.
He points out that Trieste, with
Stettin, is the anchor .of the new
western line which Russia wants
friendly Slavic States to hold. The
northern end of the line seems firm-
ly established, with the USSR, plus
Poland, to control the Eastern and
Central Baltic, but the fate of Trieste
as the other anchor is not; certain.
Sulzberger recalls he was in Mos-
cow when Marshal Tito in the Spring
of 1945 first laid formal claims to
Trieste, also Klagenfurt in Austria.
"He voiced these claims only
after having1 had two long talks
with M Stalin," states the corres-
pondent. "The inference is
clear."
The Yugoslavs did not gain
Trieste because of Britain and
America, he adds. Although Tito's
partisan units overran Trieste they
were later edged out as a result of
clever British diplomacy and per-
sistent military manoeuvre.
Ever since the Morgan Line was
established they have regretfully
been trying to bet back.
Patrol shooting affrays and at-
tacks on Allied aircraft were per-
haps a cheap-in terms of local
life-way of testing the stability of
Western nerves and the extent of
Western political resolution.
The answer is now being ascer-
tained. Certainly 'it will not be to
the liking of either Moscow or Bel-
grade.
"One thing remains certain," says
the correspondent. "Even if the
Yugoslavs'do not get Trieste now,
and even if they are unable to
manoeuvre themselves into de facto
control of an internationalised ter-
ritory there, they will not give up
trying. '
"Their means are likely to be
rough, but Marshal Tito's friend and
political boss; Stalin, does, not want
anything that smells of war, and al-
most certainly would not back up
any move really leading in that
direction."
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