ESTRANGEMENT OF SDU AND SCSU

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R002600630002-6
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 26, 2001
• Sequence Number: 2
• Publication Date: April 25, 1949
• Content Type: REPORT

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the Slovenska Yrecaneka Socialna Zveza (Slovene
Christian Socialist Union) sent a letter to the Slovene Democratic Union,
signed by Father Peter Sorli, a Slovene priest-
2. The letter stated that%
an The SCSU is an autonomous organization and that the SDU has not re-
presented its interests(i.e, SCSU)j
b0 it is, therefore, necessary now to create a committee composed of
members of the SDU and SCSU, with equal representation. This com-
mittee., alone, would be competent to decide on political questions
and to issue directives;
c. The SDU would select candidates for the Free Territory of Trieste
adMd.nistrative elections only from among its own members, providing
they were honest, correct and untainted by anti-Clericalism. The
SCSU, however, would not propose any candidates from among its
membersl
The SDU is responsible for having spread rumors that the SCSU had
sold out to the Italians and had actually received funds from them.
The Political Committee of the SD1J regards this letter as a provocation.
SDU officials have long held the opinion that a complete break with the
SCSU will be necessary prior to the administrative elections. Such a
break, it is assumed, will continue after the administrative elections.
Prominent patrons of the SCSU in Trieste include Father Harnett, National
Catholic Welfare Representative, the Office of the British Political
Adviser and Bishop Santin.. All of the aforementioned, however, are opposed
to a rupture of relations between the SCSU and the SDU.
The SCSU, meanwhile, continues to develop its political and cultural
activities, independent of the SW, in its headquarters at Via Risorta
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