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...Gorizia is a small (pop. 30,000) Italian city through whose eastern outskirts runs the boundary between Yugoslavia and Italy. Ever since the 1947 peace treaty which set up this artificial boundary, gregarious Gorizians had chafed mightily under border control rules that permitted only a handful of them to cross the frontier. Last week, the Italians and Yugoslavs decided to relent, issued about 2,000 permits allowing the bearers to cross the border on Sunday...
...Saturday night, Yugoslav residents streamed toward the line. They came in trains, trucks, horsecars and on bicycles-some with permits, most without. When the barrier finally went up on Sunday morning, a mob of 5,000 enthusiastic residents of the Yugoslav zone stormed into Italian Gorizia...
...Yugoslav crowd spread quickly through Gorizia's shops, cafes, bars and restaurants, filled their shopping bags with food, wine, stockings, towels, lipsticks and medical supplies. Yugoslav housewives exhausted the supply of brooms in a matter of minutes. In a sidewalk cafe, one elderly Yugoslav said: "This is the first real coffee I have had in three years. I must drink it slowly, or it will poison...
...types of cooperation [which] can . . . contribute to the easier solution of disputed problems." Next day, in his first press conference since his break with the Cominform, Tito amicably hinted that he was ready for the cession of Trieste to Italy if Italy would give up the border town of Gorizia to Yugoslavia...
There were some signs that the Communists had lost ground. One day last week at Lecce, when Red Boss Palmiro Togliatti denounced the Marshall Plan, he was booed into silence. In a sudden bullish mood, the Rome stockmarket rose higher than it had been in three months. At Gorizia, a crowd of 1,000 Italians broke up a Communist meeting, then stormed toward the nearby Yugoslav border shouting: "Long Live America, Death to Tito!" Frontier guards had to squash the impromptu invasion. Customs officials discovered a cargo of 8,000 guns, 4,000 cases of ammunition and one Communist agitator...