As Reported in the "Dominion"

9/3/48.—"The answer to the Czech coup is to maintain free Government in France and Italy."—Quoted from the "Economist"

11/3/48.—"Italy has asked the Foreign Minister's deputies, who are meeting to consider the Italian colonies, that the UN Trusteeship Council give Italy the right to administer Libya until Libya achieves independence."

16/3/48.—Count Sforza: "It is high time to realize that our task is to organize Europe."

Signor Togliatti: "The Marshall Plan is not justified economically but is a part of the world battle against communism. Italy is closing her spaghetti factories to sell spaghetti from America. Our vegetables are spoiling because we cannot export, while our people eat canned vegetables from America."

17/3/48.—"Events in Prague and American aid may result in their (the Italian middle classes) throwing their weight into the balance in favour of the moderates. Moves on the part of the western countries, in addition to American aid, include the signing of the French-Italian Customs Union. There has also been the visit to Rome of Mr. Morgan Phillips and Mr. Denis Healy, delegates of the British Labour Party. They [unclear: honed] to win the biggest of Italy's three Socialist parties, led by Signor Nenni, from their adherence to the Communists. Reports however, indicate that Messrs. Phillips and Healy failed in their mission.

20/3/48.—"The Italian Government has made it known that Italy would join the Western Union if the elections went against the Communists."

22/3/48.—"An announcement that France, Britain and the United States had decided that Trieste must be returned to Italy to keep the peace between Italy and Yugoslavia was made by M. Bidault at the signing of the Italian-French Customs Union protocol at Turin.

"Diplomats in Washington described the proposal as amongst the shrewdest yet made to try to help anti-communist forces in Italy win the April elections."

22/3/48.—"The Manchester Guardian's Rome correspondent quotes 'Il Messagero' as saying that the Western Powers' Trieste decision anticipated a Russian move to propose a division of the territory.

"The democratic powers have forestalled any such move, says the 'Daily Telegraph's' Rome correspondent. Their action will do much to dispel the recent anti-British and anti-American feeling in Italy, of which the Soviet Government has lately taken advantage."

24/3/48.—"Mr. Simic (Yugoslav Foreign Minister) said that Yugoslavia was prepared to seek, through mutual efforts, an agreed solution to the Trieste question, and was willing to give Trieste to Italy if Yugoslavia could retain the town of Gorizia."

25/3/48.—"An Italian Foreign Mininstry spokesman announced that in no circumstances will the Italian Government consent to barter Trieste against Gorizia."

In language that had obviously been inspired by a higher authority, the spokesman said: "Clearly Italy cannot accept a solution of the Trieste problem which barters one piece of Italy's flesh against another."

"The 'New York Times' Paris correspondent declares that Britain is preparing to take the initiative (in asking for Italy's admittance to UN) adding that the move is being timed to coincide with the Italian election campaign."

27/3/48.—"Mr. Bevin stated in the House of Commons that the proposal to return Trieste to Italy had nothing to do with the Italian elections."

30/3/48.—"Signor Togliatti declared that Tito aimed at eliminating all frontier dissensions between Italy and Yugoslavia. The Western Powers on the other hand, had always worked to prevent an Italian-Yugoslav rapprochement, which explained why they had now omitted Yugoslavia from the proposed talks on Trieste."

United Nations Charter.

Article 1. Paragraph 2.

"To develop friendly relations among nations based on respect for the principle of equal rights and to take other appropriate measures to strengthen universal peace.