Salt Lake Telegram | 1947-11-01 | Page 1 | Yugoslavs Ban Two U. S. News Writers

Yugoslavs Ban Two US U.S. News WrIters Charge Di Dispatches Of Reporters Created III Will ill BELGRADE BELGRAD Y Yugoslavia g Nov 1 1 l P Yugoslavia 0 o r 1 rd d e r r ed e d two two Ameri American correspondents S Saturday i t to leave eave the the country within 2 24 hours hour A government government- spokesman said Arthur M. M Brandel correspondent pt of th the New New York Tim Times and h his s wife Mar Mary Lester er who represents the Uni United d Press Were cre ere Doing bong expel ex ex- cx- cx expelled pel ed because their writing has not tended to create a better understanding Understanding understanding un- un un Un- be between our two coun coun- tries Brand Brandel l and his wife said sald the they were awakened at am a.m. by a Yugoslav ml militiaman who told them I am pm instructed by the thc ministry of the in interior erl rt to tn inform or you that tha you have 24 hours hour In n which to leave our country I lam am also Instructed that if you if you do lo n not t leave eave we shall take t the e. e necessary sary arY steps t I 1 H Hp did dd not say what s hs ps would be nor did he give any reason rea rca 5 son Ion flU for tor the expulsion order the writers said Brandel covered the the recent recent trial of of peasant t party leader Dragoljub Jovanovic who was waa charged with treason Jovanovic was was sentenced Oct 8 to nine nIne- years imprisonment imprison imprison- ment and d defendant Franjo Fran Fra jo Gazi to five years The Yugoslav press rus subsequently attacked B what it charged was distortion in his dispatches concerning the trl trial 1 The United Press said in tIt New NewYork NewYork NewYork York that it could ascribe e re reason reacon son at the present time to the expulsion of its correspondent but that it was assumed it was was largely b because cause she is the wife of f Brandel Brandel informed inform d II U. S S. Ambas Ambas- AmbasSador Ambassador Cavendish Cannon Canno who said he would take up the matter with the he foreign affairs mints ministry y He said Cannon told him h he co considered d tl this s' s a a. a grave grav incident ciple which he h i intended to discuss with the hf highest h st st. authorities s. s