ENTHUSIASM IN ITALY

Chronicle (Levin), 22 March 1948, Page 5

ENTHUSIASM IN ITALY

Received Sunday, Midnight. LONDON, MaiPh 21. Reuter's correspondent at Trxeste says Italian fiag's tvaved trom baleonies and crotvds surged tlirough the streets.singing patriotic- Italian songs after the announcement that Britain, France and tbe United Atates favoured giving back THcste to Italy. In Turin the Foreign Minister (Count Sforza) . said no* other statement could hav'e moved Italy so deeply. The R'ight Wing Romc newspaper Giornale'dTtalia said; "Italians ean never- sufficiently apprcciatc this gesture." The Prague radib .^eclared that the Western Powep.'s decision to hand Trieste back to Italy was intended to violate one of the Italian Peace Trcaty's most important . a rticles. Th e pro vocation Was intended to give Ameriea a pretext to land trodps iii Italy before the Italian election. The Belgrade radio announced the proposal briefly for the first timo in its late night news broadJast 011 Saturday. With in tlie next fortnight thei Western Powers will follow up the proposal that Trieste be returtied to Itaiy with a statement favour-

ing Italian ti'nsteeship over some of Italy 's former African colonies, reports the New Yorlt- Times' foreign correspondent (Mr. O. J. Sulzberger) in a dispatch from Paris. Quoting "Teliable diplomatic sources" usually • well-in-l'ormed, Mr. Sulzbergcr says it is believed an agreement in principlc. has already been reached that such awourse will he acceptable to the west for thc colonies of Lritrea and Italian SonialilancL Britain is refusing such an agreement in the case of Libya because of her promise to the Benussi tribes of that region that never again will they' bc under Italian control.