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...want to register a faint squawk about an item in TIME of June 10. In the piece about Yugoslavia it says "No Yugoslav dared be seen at a British or American information center." That just isn't true because we have several hundred a day at ours and the British a few less, and there has been no noticeable slackening of attendance in recent weeks...
...know what the Government has done about the Mihailovitch trial in the light of the fact that the British government supported the Chetnik leader for two years. Heavy-set, tough-looking Ernest Bevin lurches to his feet and answers that the British government made certain information known to the Yugoslav government, but could not interfere further in a trial in a sovereign nation. And so the business goes on until the questions are exhausted. Then to the major business of the day, a full dress debate upon the future of the BBC, each speaker having been chosen in advance...
...arguments for keeping Trieste out of Yugoslav hands were good ones, and Secretary Byrnes and Foreign Secretary Bevin had made them. For the sake of getting on with the peace, they had compromised with Molotov on a French proposal to internationalize the city (which has a preponderantly Italian population, but is economically an outlet for Central Europe and the Balkans). Italian nationalist extremists, who cheered the 1940 attack on France with the land-greedy slogan "Corsica, Nice, Savoy," would scarcely improve their claims to Trieste by demonstrations against the West...
Molotov finally offered a compromise-putting Trieste under dual Italo-Yugoslav sovereignty. But growing clashes between Italians and Slovenes in the city already showed how hopeless such a plan would be. When Byrnes turned it down, Molotov snapped: "If you mean that no compromise is possible, why not say so?" Byrnes shot back: "Because it isn't true. I have accepted several compromises. . . . So far as I can see you have retreated nowhere...
...Worse. Bidault then offered a complicated compromise calling for Big Four plus U.N. plus joint Italo-Yugoslav rule of Trieste for ten years. (Senator Vandenberg called it "something out of Gilbert & Sullivan . . . more government per square inch than ever established anywhere.") Nobody liked the plan, not even Bidault; but all agreed to study...