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When news of the second attack on a U.S. plane (see INTERNATIONAL) reached Washington, the State Department promptly released the text of a note sent to Yugoslavia last May 20. It accused the Yugoslav Government of a series of nefarious and unfair tactics in Trieste: subornation of the press, incitement to unrest, propaganda attacks on the A.M.G., criminal and terrorist activities, intimidation of the local public and local officials. Said the note, in effect: all this must stop...
After Jimmy Byrnes's shorthand had been transcribed, Acheson called in the Yugoslav Charge d'Affaires and handed him a blistering U.S. note: "These outrageous acts have been perpetrated by a Government that professes to be a friendly nation. . . . The use of force . . . was without the slightest justification in international...
...Forty-eight Hours. The note ridiculed the Yugoslav contention that the shootings were "accidental." It demanded the immediate release and safe conduct to the border of all U.S. plane occupants still alive and permission for them to be interviewed by a U.S. representative. The ultimatum gave Yugoslavia 48 hours from the time of its receipt to comply with the U.S. demands...
...demands were met within the time limit, the U.S. would "determine its course in the light of the evidence then secured and the efforts of the Yugoslav Government to right the wrong done." If not-and this was a letdown-the U.S. would "call upon the Security Council of the United Nations to meet promptly and to take appropriate action...
...Frontier. But it would take a long time, if ever, before the war of' nerves over the Dardenelles (see INTERNATIONAL) was ended. The Dardenelles issue did not get the headlines nor excite the U.S. public as much as the Yugoslav crisis. But Washington considered it far more crucial...