TRIESTE PROPOSAL AND COMMUNIST MOVES

Grey River Argus, 31 March 1948, Page 5

TRIESTE PROPOSAL AND COMMUNIST MOVES

LONDON, March 29

The Giornaie di Trieste says that 300 U now Yugoslav troops have arrived' in the Yugoslav zone of the Free Territory. z Rome newspapers say that 300 Russian-made tanks have been brought into the Yugoslav zone and are concentrated near the border* between the Yugoslav and the British and American zones. “Communist anxiety less the threePower proposal for the return of Trieste to Italy may adversely affect the election prospects of the Popular Democratic Front was clearly apparent in a defensive speech delivered by the Italian Communist leader Signor Togliatti') in the Piazza del Popolso,” says the Rome correspondent of The Times. Togliatti declared that Marshal Tito aimed at eliminating an frontier dissensions between Italy and Yugoslavia. The Western Powers on the other hand, had always worked to prevent an Italian-Yugoslav approachment, which explained why they had now omitted Yugoslavia from the proposed talks on Trieste. Signor Togliatti added that the ultimate aim of the Western Powers was to keep the frontier conflict alive until Italy could be dragged into a new imperialist war against Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union. The Italian people must, he said, show the Western Powers by their vote in the elections that Italy would never support this bellicose policy.”