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...Italian accord, which strips that country of her colonies and a large portion of Venezia Giulia at the head of the Adriatic, was signed at a morning session in the brilliantly lighted red and gold Salon de I'Horloge room of the French foreign office...
Trieste internationalized; Venezia Giulia and small Adriatic islands to Yugoslavia; Briga-Tenda and other border areas to France; Dodecanese Islands to Greece; all African colonies, which Big Four will dispose of within one year. Petsamo province and southern Karelia to Russia, which also gets a lease on the naval base at Porkkala-Udd, commanding the Gulf of Finland...
History moved tensely on the wings of two planes that passed last week in opposite directions over the wreckage of Europe. One, an Army transport, brought from Venezia Giulia the bodies of five U.S. flyers whose unarmed plane was shot down by Yugoslav fighters in America's first major postwar crisis. The crisis had passed, but the international tensions of which it was a peak continued. The five bodies, all crises past, lay flag-draped in the chapel of a Roman airport...
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...