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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...
...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...
...this the peace? Of the world's 2,000,000,000 people, at least 1,900,000,000 just did not care what became of Massaua's flea-bitten port, or of sun-baked Leros, or of Venezia Giulia's ragged purple mountains, or of dusty Kalgan, or of the fog-soaked Kurils. What the people did care about was tomorrow's bread or hunger, day-after-tomorrow's peace...
...quickly excused himself, and sent in eight bottles of beer. With the beer came an older, baldheaded, bug-eyed captain, who obviously was a trouble shooter. The captain spoke at great length about the crimes of Fascism, and said the whole purpose of the Yugoslav invasion of Venezia Giulia was to liberate his people. After a lot of evasion he did comment that having Allied troops behind his front lines constituted "a very poor military situation...