Word: giulia
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...live in disputed areas are apt to be mere political and geographic symbols. Yet every hill and valley has its majorities and minorities, its dead heroes and live arguments, its habits, slogans and heartaches. From Trieste last week TIME Correspondent Robert Low cabled a close scrutiny of Venezia Giulia...
...Four's decision to internationalize Trieste and give Venezia Giulia to Yugoslavia was a far greater blow to the Italians in Italy than to the Italians in Trieste. Where people can see Tito troops by going a couple of miles to the boundary between Zone A (Anglo-American control) and Zone B (Yugoslav control), patriotism is tempered by practical considerations. Most of the 270,000 Italians in Trieste, after expressing their dislike of Slavs and Communists...
Flexible Flag. Though he has failed, thus far, to get Trieste, Tito has shown how to make a minority pay off. In all Venezia Giulia there are not enough Communists, Slovene and Italian combined, to win a straight political election. Together they would represent perhaps 20% of the 900,000 population. Nor are there enough Slovenes to win an ethnical plebiscite. They are about 45% of the population; almost all pro-Yugoslav, but much less than half of them Communist...
Throughout Venezia Giulia, the Communists are campaigning against the Church. Recently both the Bishop of Trieste and the Archbishop of Gorizia have been stoned on the steps of their cathedrals...
...fashion, to prevent a clash between 25,000 nationalist Italians and 15,000 Italian leftists and Slovenes. Said one G.I., nursing his stone-bruised right arm: "If we ever let those two mobs get at each other, there won't be enough hospitals and morgues in all Venezia Giulia to take care of the casualties...