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...high command of the Giulian Communist Party is the U.A.L.S. (Italo-Slovene Union of Anti-Fascists), a small inner-sanctum group whose chief strategist is Professor Oscar Ferlan. He concedes that Tito's Government is a dictatorship, but claims: "In Trieste as in Yugoslavia, the minority must act for the good of the majority...
Flaunted Funerals. Ever since A.M.G. took over Trieste, Tito's PNOO (Regional Liberation Committee), backed by a local secret-police force on NKVD lines, has been in underground opposition to it. The battle reached its height in early July when the editor of Glas Savozaikov, the Slovene paper, was fined 200,000 lire for publishing false rumors about A.M.G. "calculated to excite and alarm the people...
...Tito had to be flexible enough to unite Italian Communist workers with conservative Slovene farmers. His "nationalistic internationalism" says in the same breath: "Slovenes-unite with your brother Slavs in the new greater powerful Yugoslav fatherland," and "Italians-unite with the new greater international brotherhood of the proletariat-down with nationalism." He even designed a new Italian flag, with a red star in the center of the white stripe, to please the Italian Communists. But in Tito's Zone B, Italian Communists cannot display...
...watched one of these affairs. Outwardly, the procession was orderly and dignified. But as it passed through Trieste you could feel the tension grow as Italians gathered along the sidewalks to watch in silence. It was the setup for an incident of the kind which "provoke" Tito to action: "Partisan's funeral attacked by Italian Fascists...
...side of the line, Tito has done plenty of provoking. If the peace conference confirms the Big Four decision, about 350,000 Italians will be included in Yugoslavia. The future for these non-Communist Italians has already been shown in Zone B. While the charge of "Fascist" made against wealthier Italians is true in many cases, it is also used indiscriminately against non-Fascists...