Problem of Italy-Yugoslav Frontier

Chronicle (Levin), 6 May 1946, Page 5

Problem of Italy-Yugoslav Frontier

Press Assn.

RUSSIAN ATTITUDE '

By Telegraph

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Reeeived Sundav 8.40 p.m. LONDON, May 4. The Foreign Ministers spent nearly three hours today discussing the ltalo- j Yugoslav frontier but failed to reaeh ! aori't'inent, says Rcuter's Paris eorre- 1 ppitndent. llr. Molotov stated the Rus- 1 sians eonsidered the Yugoslav ciaims ; . wil-founded and just. He critieised j Hisli, American and Freneh sug- j W»J pis for a frontier line whieh he j | ™:%1 would "punish" the Yugoslavs j i wliii were allies. Mr. Ylolotov, admit- [ ting Trieste was ethnieally Italian, de- | | iiiainlcd that the eity should he tnrned . ; o\cr to Yugoslavia hecause it was neces- J | pa r v to and dependent on the surround- i | iiiti eountrvside which was ethnieally i i Yugoslav. | The Associated Press correspondent, j : quoting British sourees, says Jlr. Levin I ; and llr. Byrnes hotly denied AT r. Molo- \ tov 's suggostions that the proposed , British, American and Freneh border lincs would constitute "punishment" ; to Yugoslavia. They pointed out that Yugosla via, under the British, Amerirau and Freneh proposals, would ob- i tain Fiume, 189.000 square iniles of new \ tcnitorv and .'575,000 inhahitants. After ! ti. 1'idault pointed out that the Boun- j iIh : \* 'ommission was instructed to ' iha-.v border lines on ethnie grounds, ! . tli. .Molotov suggested that the rouncil j plimdd take a deeision on the general ; prim-iple and allow experts to study ' tln- details later. M !. Bevin said the British delegation lia.i not yet made up their minds which oi' the three suggested lines — British, Aic.-rican and Freneh — was the best but tlu.nght the Freneh line probablv ran cln-i*st to the ethnie frontier. i