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Beautiful Head. Twenty years ago, Trieste was second only to Genoa among Italian ports; today it is eighth. Trieste's maritime traffic has dropped 25% in the past two years, and rail traffic is less than half the 1957 rate. More than 17,000 Triestini (12% of the labor force) are unemployed, and the number of "disguised unemployed"-their livelihood provided by government make-work projects-is steadily increasing...
...garrisoned the free territory. But since then, Rome has turned a deaf ear to proposals that some of Italy's innumerable state-owned enterprises be moved to Trieste and that the city be granted the privilege of importing raw materials and exporting finished goods duty-free. Triestini complain that Sicilian-born Giovanni Palamara, Italy's prefect in Trieste, shrugs off their troubles by saying, "My own island suffers more...
...Trieste itself, the long-awaited takeover came off enthusiastically, too, but not according to plan. Britain's General Sir John Winterton, departing commander of the British-U.S. occupation troops, had been cordially hated by the Triestini since last year's bloody riots. The British, therefore, insisted that the military ceremony be held close to the dockside, where the carrier Centaur waited to bear Winterton away. On the morning of the great day, rain and high winds lashed the city and the harbor; swarms of impatient Italians broke through police lines and made a shambles of the dockside...
...voice boomed from the city hall balcony the news the crowd had gathered to hear: in London representatives of Italy and Yugoslavia had signed the agreement (TIME, Oct. 11) giving Zone B of the Free Territory of Trieste to Yugoslavia and Zone A-with the city itself-to Italy. "Triestini," cried the voice from the balcony, "now wave your flags...
...Triestini had long been pictured as fearful of the economic losses that would follow the withdrawal of U.S. and British forces. But the worry was not in evidence in the Piazza dell' Unita. The crowd irrupted in a fervor of patriotism. Some oldsters broke down in tears. Youths began chanting, "Italia! Italia!" and voices were raised in the refrain of Brothers of Italy and Hymn of the Piave...