SUMMARIES OF THE YUGOSLAV PRESS

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PRIMCI.Sla DiZ4V1JIK Slovono Communist (pro-eito), January 23rd, 1952
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STATI NTL
Articlos and. 1-worts:
.04Statomont by Yugoslav delegate Ninth at TJN Political Commi.ttoo
Yugoslavia realizes that some countries do not care ?srory much for
peace nevertheless she does net oppose their acceptance since this
would contribute towards noro;a3. relations and help .causo of
peace .4. By his statements be fort) his doparturo from Paris Vietlinsky.
'proved that Rosea still mioots Policy of intornational collaboration
(Fa)
"Details of Italian budget Criticism of ncm taxes - /428 billion
deficit (Fa)
.-Anothor Yugoslav frontior guard wounded by Hungarians 250 motors
from frontier line (+ near Subotioa) (Fa). ?
-Japan's rearmament October ? japan will have 5 armoured and 5
iit'antry dividoos (To.) -
-Meeting of UN ?spoci:1Political Comittoo - Protest by Israel
dologation on hang,ino of liwo jOWS in Ba8dad 2.50 million dollars
allocotod for Arabs vloo emigrated from Palestine (Fa)
?-MaoArthur cancels his 4..:r.1.1(14.diAttaro (n)
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..Roinan:: in Trtooto (roprint of a letter, publis hod in "Sloven*/
Poro6o-valoo" affirming that Italianfl caro nothing and know little
about tho Tr-Jo)st? problom which is only oxploitod by politicians to
turn -attention from important problems like unemployment, industrial; .
? difficulties etc. Collaboration bot000n Yugoslavia and. Italyowould
bo profitoblo to Loth countries) -
-Mooting of 'Tamers' Union Exocotive COmmittoo - Strengthening of
Farmers Union bonoficial to farmers 4- Creation of local economic
.. councils and memorandum (on situation and proposals) to .AMG (Ba)
...not will second inouiry commission discover at Tobacco Factory?
'27orkors . net receive their wages - VIi1AMG intervene
vIth.mnagonent? (La)
This Bullotin consists of translations of headlines and summaries of
editoriolo, ortiolos and news reports of interest to AM,? 301(3o-boa
from tho local and, occasionally, foreign press. Text in 'brackets and,
pi ceded "hy the rlign 4. consists of oxplanations by the editor of this
Bulletin. Foroign nows is or rkod "F", local "B", if foaturod it is in
addition marked "a.",, if of secondary import once "b". 3,1 translations
are summarized; unless oti2Jrw4so stated.
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-In Skedcuj (Servola) they also 7,vant unity - New Freedom Front Committee
iU fi lint for equality and unity of Slovenes in the FTT (Lb)
-0"CO" (short editorial note, referring to fact that local Finance
Guards grout passengers at ?pane (Opicina) with "Italian customs"
inat gad of' juot "customs" or "PTT customs")
CIOLAILE Di Tam= - Pro-Italy, non-party daily, January 23rd, 1952
Artiolos-and reports:
rearmament (editorial - + Italy's military- reorganisation must
be completed before the problem of Trieste can be satisfactorily solved)
(Pa) .
7-Excitomont inThllais Bourbon over reports of further clashes (+ in
Tunisia) - French colonol lynched at Sousa by crowd, 10 dead and 25
wounded in shooting - Chief of nationalists Bourguiba wants to resume
negotiations with Prance ori footing of absolute equality (Fa)
rulers will probably decide not to "take the risk", is Eisen-
hower's Opinion (Pr;)
-De C,osneri explains programa against onesployment - Investments connected
wf..th defence exigencies (Fa)
-Erskine Comoioni sue unconf irsind (+ about murder of nun) - Investigation
rosulta eagcrly awaited in London (Fa)
-Stat o workers' salaries discussed in Italian parliament - Majority
spoloisl,Tan stresses urgonoy of the matter - Do Nicola resumes presidential
scat (F0)
-T3lobit presents credentials to Einaudi (Fb)
-Gousos of poisoning in tobacco factory still a mystery - Work to be
graduallY resumed in next few days but another quality of tebacco will
be processed (La) ?
-Coont Rossetti de Scsrder, president of thinerva, and local com2ittee
of thaio)ing comvanios' personnel send messages' of appreval to Mayor
-nartoli in matter of coonunal flag (Lb)
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Will recent rent_incpsosnin It/A be extended to Trieste? - geasure expected
to be in force by Febru.:ry 1st (La
;:)7 its temporary regulation (Law-decreo of December 21st 1951), the
Italian Goverillent decided to block evictions but, at the same ti, to allow
1 further increase in runts. ,loonwhile AEG limited itself to a simple
extension of leases. IRywover, we are informed that the extension of the
Italian low on incxeased runts to Trieste (from February 1st onwards) is now
being studiod by AUG.
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This measure will certainly give rise- to polemics and -opposition. The
Association of tenants of Trieste and Venezia Giulia have already submitted
memorondum to AMC- containing two very-interesting questions. The first
concerns the houseowners' risht to double the rent in cases where he himself
only OCCUP?-qiii one 'flat; the second proposes that all controversies
should be brought beforo a 1.:agistrote. The above-mentioned Association protests
against the proposed eXtension of'thesc measures to Tricto,1 stressing that
(in the first case) it would cause hardship to poorer people and (in the
second case) that the present method of mediation by thc Rent Claims Office
( instituted in 1 950 by Ai K1-1 a Order 175) is quite satisfactory.
Vio shall return to those interesting questions in a later edition.
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For full observt-tnco of Italian leAplation in Triesto - A motion voted by
49.0.1,11 rukor .Ir
Tri..istof s Bar (X,b)
The Order of lawyers and attorneys of Trit.3sto held its gonoml mooting
t.
yesterday morning which was attonded by a la.rgo number of its members,
After a ruport on the activity of the past yoar, the chairman of the local
Bar, Atty, Harabaglia, proposed the follecring motion (which was unanimously
approvod):
"The mooting emphasized the gum ral no od for r omoval of any obstacle
to full slosorvance of tho Italian legislation, vrhich observanoo should be
guaranteed as a continuation of its development and without any gap in its
application?.
"Awaiting the clay when the unquostionablo Italianity of these rogions
will not be impeded by curtain juridical impositions, which arc contrary
to (democratic) principles and tho dusiro of the majority of the populations,
the Executive Counoil is entrusted to continue its offorts towards
attainment of Jds aim".
Istrian settlernontat the foot of ,ScrVola hill (Lb)
Thu lost group of 211. newly built .flats for Istrian refugees in via
Balamontipwero handed over to thom yesterday in the presence of Prefect
Palutan and :;Pragiacomo, president of the OLN for Istria,
President Fragiacomo eyhortod the, now Istrian tenants always to be
mindful of their civil and patriotic duties.
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IL CORRIERE DI TRIESTE - Loft-wing, pro-PT, January 23rd, 1952
Articles and resorts:
-De Gasperi explains to :Journalists measures adopted by Ministers'
council, 1 ?luting out Italy's economic difficulties and Government's
fiscal policy - :cono,flic and social aspects of oxtra-contribution
made by private enterprise - TJ;f2ects of a rise in cost of production
Minister ',r'nonils viewpoint and the opinions of economio circles (Ea)
-Paura obtains majority vote in Bourbon Palace - Owing to two
adjournments nia ministry has for the moment compact majority at
its disposd (Pa)
-Prance and the world between 19)3 and 1945 - German drive backed by
fifth columns in all fureign countries - Cagoule activity and short...
sightudness of French. government -4 Nazi strategy in ideological
propaganda Espionage by glamour girls a thing of the past(seventh
instalment) (Fa)
-2ourteen states apply for UN membership - Delegations not in complete
agreement - Aid to Arab refugees 4- Israel abstains as sign of protest
VishLnoky loves for Moscow (Pa)
...Di Vittorio takes virt in Italian Parliament's debate about civil
servants salaries - Government project sharply criticised by CGIL
secretary - Bill on repression of fascist activities discussed by
Senate (-.90
...Atlantic pact substitutes study possible reformation of NATO (Pb)
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Letter by "Inc elen -3eont" to Genera). Whiteley for return of Trieste flag
Cit:e a3.l-tLa)
On 3enueecy iCth the Executive Committee of the Independence Front sent a
letter to Genere1 1.4hitelew in which, after quoting the Mayor's reply to their
euestien at the City Council in connection with the withdrawal of the Trieste
flag fro; l ehe City Hall balcony, the following points were stressed:
1) ''Le 1\;eeeer de) iberately ignores the provisions and the articles of the
Peeee Trceely .?eleth.Italy which c:nstitute the PTT and define the State flag;
2) ho vje4etes .;'iMG Orders and Proclamations Which, in
ciilection vriti the above reentiened provisions, defined the Trieste flag as the
tAntx.. one;
3) In orti,./.? to pr,?ve the laws, articles,. and treaties to be groundless
Exid non-ceeistelit or nereenforceable, -the hayor gives the opinions of private
persens, which isr ebeurd and cannot be taken into account by sensible people
or fenlyi rtie 1 e,;eee reedent r4;
4.) the Meyer i.efere to the Tripartite Note, but here he only expresses
his personal via v does not conferm with reality. In fact, it does not
fellow., even -in the 7f.einion of the most fanatic Italian irredentist, that the
Tripartite :Prep: elal his :iuridicully annulled the PTT;
ei in ore.er t eus,eify the withdatewal of the flag the Mayor affirms that
in this eeee he sefee:uerds the flag of the Cormune from "usurpation". ',Is a
nntt ex. of fel et, an]. acc,_rding to his own statements, he withdrew the flag from
the on:1_,..7 place where it should 'De flown, i.e. the City Hall;
6') the rrovecetive and attitude of the Mayor which was caused
by the i)rc:3eni regulation against flying the Italian national flag, is clearly
shown in his cuiclueing re 'LlEI r k 3 ;
7) there is no r.i.eter to stress the use made of the word "verboten" in
referrine to LM. which is thus tacitly conparad to those Germans and Nazis
who pleeii.ered,I.id lauraorcd in b!Trope.
The :exocetive Coefeittee of the Independence Front has therefore decided.
and
?I) sneuld enereetically intervene on the basis of the duties
entrusted to it ey the UN and seecified. in Gener4 Airy's Proclamation No.1
of 6epte, G 1" 1 6t.! 1 1 947 ;
tie CeeiLaur:1 UOO1C1l1; ens of the Independence Front left the City
Council as a sio;yi of ..:f.-'etest at the affront to the State flag and the
provocation to. the foolings Triestine population. They will maintain
this attitude so ion 5 as there :.s no guarantee that the State, its institutions,
and citizens, are given thLeb respect due to them and which is law in every
civilized country;
c) it is nocessery that th11, in its -bum, should establish by a. -proper
lawsregulations whi,:a will clearly and without ambiguity, settle the use of ?
the fiac; of the ute aLkl. of the Communes so that no political intrigues may
cause diserder orv: cotton among the population.
f.103uraltlo
Trie.F.;te Padua sup:plie a us with quilam products (La)
ies is well knetin Trieste has one of the most modern oil refineries in
Europe, tbo "Lertile", whose production far exceeds the local demand, so that
;-.:1 large proportiun of it prod uets is oeeport6d..
Natexally the, locel ceneemer expects to benefit from the proximity of
this since transport rates from Zaule to Trieste are obviously less
than thoSo from Zaule to th1irie, Padua , or Milan. But for practical and
adiniecistleltive.
roe *Lie m is only one price.
The Trio et ine .set ofeeen ee.r) wishes to purchase tLquilan lubricants, is
.net able te buy direct, free' th, refinery or from a local agent. He is compelled
to apply few to Pedurt:
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This because the SAP company for the Sale of the refinery products
has been established in Padua. Furthermore the Aquila products are not
delivered here on the spot, but they must be shipped from Padua to Trieste,
so thlet their price is increased by the extra transport costs. It seems ,
inereitibl 'hut it is . a facts. ?
d.o not deny the "AquiLri.." management its. right to appoint a Padua
fim as its local agent,but it ie ridiculous that this agent should reside
in'4i'adua,. thus p'lyincj, his taxes to the Italian treasury. And it 's simply
scandalous that the "Agella" products sold in Trieste are shipped twice, ?
from and to Trieste, thereby raising the price to the Triestine cornumer..
The cairn centaiing the lubricant are manufactured in Trieste, -then
they are shipped to Padua, from where they are once more sent to Trieste.
And that is zuppee.ed to be economies.", Fortunately the International Bank
or Era) has granted four and a half million Dollars to "Aquila" for the-
enlargement or its plants. The creditors must rejoice at such mal-
a dminis tra tion4
Finally we feel obliged to call the attention of AMG's Department of.
Finance and, Neonomy to anottx)r fact. The former has credited the Italian
Goverment with 5 billion lire. for each half year, on account "of
manufacturing -taxes and custom duties cellected by the "ITT on goods consumed
by pereons restlent in Italy." .
Does .1111G. take into account that this pmduct, for which taxes arc ix.id
in the FTT, when leaving fbr Italy is considereden exported good, and
therefore as a product S'consumed in Italy"? -When those goods leave the FTT
the Itoijan treasury is croditod id VI the - respective manufacturing tax. .
But when these Ilelfse.me.px-oduets /.e-entor the I'T`.T.'? is that duly taken into
consideration?
it would be much simpler to collect taxes only for the goods sold in
the :ri.T? cihi,l custom dutieS, equal to the amount of manufacturing taxes,
should be laid on similar products entering the FTT.
So we are faced 'by this absurd situation: t hs manufacturing taxes on-,
mineral oils s.o collected in the n'T and crodited to Italy. In reality
that mons 1,11A they were not cello oted. and the products are Sold to Italy
d.ty-frue. ni when those products manufactured in Trieste a nd thio. to
Italy come back to TrieLte, they are burdened with the a dditicma I cost
ofthe manu pi; tiring taecoll collected by the Italian treasury thiough the
famous 5 'billion lire.
This 'lakes too much confusion. 40 do not 1616VJ Whtithar AmG .intends,,to
foster the recovery of loc..."4.:1 finance or to destroy it. If there is a ?_ customs
agreem t in force between the PTT and Italy, then the taxes and. customs
duties collected in the 'Ti must zona in in Trieste, OT else there is. no
agrees:Ant: in this case the TT musf; 'be able to purchase its goods wherever
it chooses. Today we are ceMpelled to reimburse Italy t he taxes dolleoted
on mineral ens awl to buy from Italy_ the selfsame oils we supplied duty-
free burdened with the Italian manufacturing taxes,*
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Unfair mime titien? rr.rainst Trieste 21.9st (edit cr. la 1)
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? In connection with the forthcoming intormtional railway conference in
Trieste (scheduled, for the next February or March), the paper recalls the
wel12-knovm arguments wneerning the competition 'by the Northern 'ports, - and
recoranends that the appropriate local authorities _prepare all?pecessary data
and proeosals for the defence of Trieste' :3 port to be submitted eat this -
conference..
The writer recalls the neatly-a results gained for .our port at the
Regoneburg railway-tariff conference last year, results whi ob. the German
repro sontatives-at the recent eonfarence at Hamburg attempted to ohango to
our detriment (ria*Oaining that the previous agreement in favour of Trieste
only concerns Hanburg? 'but not other German ports)* Th) paper-Com lodes
that our ropresentativ:::s must 'be very careful in negotiating with such people,
and should prepare their plan well in advance.
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MESS;iGGERO VENETO - Udine (Trieste edition), Ital,right-wing, Jan.23rd, 1952
srticles and reytartp:
-:.nagnitude of Italian government programme illustrated by De Gasperi
and his colleagues -Maximum effort for reducing unemploynent and
increase of productive investments (Fa)
-Gravity of situation in Tunis causes even socialists to vete for.
Faure - New government plans to set up mixed cemisission to study
Bey's demands (Fa)
-Eisenhower an European unification - SiiiiEE commander proposes
e-nvocation of constituent assembly (Fa)
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Cold terTorism and inept doctrinaires (editorial by Mario Pella)
Having had the geed ,fortune to capture favourable positions, the
Independentist intelligentsia veiny -call it a "social novement", entirely
subservient, according to "Corriere di Triesto"'s theery, to financial
interests.
In point of fact Triestine inrodentism sprang from the bourthaisie
t the time of the Risorgimento when this beurgodgo was the only bulwark
ainst Habsburg-controlled finance and big business. The cry "Italy" which
snald.be heard everywhere in Venezia Giulia after the bleak May days of 1945
was something more than the desire of the nepulation for reunion with the
motherland it was a desperate cry for freedom dictated by the instinct for
physical survival. The exodus from POIa and the ether Istrian towns as the-
result of a dire necessity: one does net decide to roam the world Unless.
driven by deadly danger.
Just as absurd as its definition of irredentism are "Corriere's remarks
about la and Italian capitalism. Fascism or no fascism, Italian industry,
in the throes of 'a huge economic crisis, had to be saved at all costs, even
by state help, and, if need bp, by the expropriation of private capitalists.
Esd IRS not taken in hand Trieste's:disorganised and impoverished
industries and Shipping in 1933, their- collapse would have been inevitable.
Trieste's ships and shipyards could not be sold under the hammer, they had
to continue work in order to provide occupation and bread for thousands. So
the shareholders lost their meneyvbut the public nterest was saved, and
by. fitting our merehant marine into thenntianal-framework, its efficiency
was greatly and effectively increased. .
It is a deliberate exaggeration to say thatTrieste's shipping interests
were sacrificed to those of otherItalian ports, as a comparison of Trieste's
and Genoa's sailing lists of 1938 clearly shows.
Our shipyards and furnaces became part of the newly- Created FTT.. But
how could they axist without Italian =missions and the vast Italian market?
It is a significant fact thnt when the recanversion of the IRI enterprises
into private firms was suggested, the Italian heavy and engineering industries
Showed not the slightest eagerness to embank upon the venture.
It is easy to fabricate Belgrade-inspired propaganda arguments but ir.
the long run truth will /rove stronger than all these fallacies.
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L 'UNITA - Milan (Trio sto edition Italian COMMA st Party, Jan, 23rd? 1952
Articles and reports:
-Obstinacy of employers universally condemnor' - After resumption of
negotiations with MIA., S. Marco workers resume their jobs - Bonetti
proadses solution of garbage removal problan - Agitation at jute
Factory (La)
-Steady xdse in cost of living index vibia, salaries r emain unnhangt3d -
Food -prices sh LAI biggest increase (La)
-Ina.m" in' the hands of a group of tycoons - Besides "federal" inspector
gensral Ralli a nult)or of fascists nose as rulers, with connivance or
the Domochristian Potrilli (La)
..0..
Trieste in the (editorial)
The non-constitution of the FTT has gradually turned into an international
sere. VThat i he; good of treaties and siglod pledges if -states can take it
upon thenv:iolvos to simply disregard them at their own convenience?.
Recently the neiCe..SEilty for linking the .peace treaty 'with A u s tri a to the
? issue of Trieste. has emerged. The Americans? British, and French show a
surpxising eagerness to. conclude a treaty With ,Austria although this country
has, by its. very incomplete- de-nazification and its repent decision to restore
all his property to the ox-fascist loader Prince Starhemberg, shown that its
internal situation leaves 'much to be desired. 4ustria must first dismantle
the s.ritar preparations wh eh With Anglo-American help it had ma do in the American -
British-French zones and must be freed from the ca- 008 QM' ? exorcised by Eisen-,
hewer' s troops south of th.-.) Carinthian-Styrian-Yugeglav borderline and, above
all, in Trioste.
The convorsion of Trieste into .a military base violates the provisions'
of the .p eace treaty and, far from being an internal affair of the FM affects
Austria and in a broader souse line vihole of Central Europe.
The Soviet demand for the linkage of the twt..) issues has greatly irritated
? both the Itaiisn.and Slav c uvini sts. The 1t ter are strongly opposed to
the reunion of .Zones A and B., a rd their demi li tar isa t ion,. and instead want
the maintenance of the status quo or a tri- or quaarii?artito achinistration
or a diroct,Italian-Yugoslav 4[:-yeeme.r.lt. They accuse the Seviot of sabotaging
the Austrian- treat:Jo- Lnd of dragging in the Tr:testc issue only as a pretext for
their delaying tactics,. The. Italian nationalists say the same., No wonder,
since the microphone usod by'both -varieties of c.Akauvinists are; in the hands
of the samc.,i:waster.- .
By contrast what the -residents ?Of- this territory ardently desire is the
withdrawal of the .Military forces now occupying the two zones, and ;the
declaration that Trieste is-an open - city, _with no Marshall plan entanglrrme nts
which in this capacity will contribute, to world? teaen and also facilitate the
Austrian. treaty. ?. -
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- Republican Party weekly, January 19th,1952
Irtio,les and reports:
-Loca 1.1-floating of PRI (Italion Republican Party) suggests solution of
Julian problem - Ruturn of the ontire FTT to Italy a logical
com-oclounce 1,.;uropean unification - Expendiency of a plebiscite
rc
L'hi
othor flag, too, shoold be laworod since the communal flag has
bue.0 rx.floved from the City ic.s.11 - That on tho Prefecture should also
ho.u).od down accoiopanidd by the tricolour, AMC should be
urE- ;d -to authorizo one or tho other measure
-ho pro-PL,411 of i'oroign rw.'ugues Doubtful activity of certain
rt from J10 genuine refugees tho ro are many self
co.1 mostly Yugoslays, overcrowding Trieste,
who are. iliviocr, oomfortably ao ra.oketoors- - They have their head-
LC:C 3 :I nii and restb.urants, when) they make every kind of
dot The pUblic authorities and the communo take more notice of
th?.,se poople, who could prove to be more dangerous than the poor
deyb llvincr in canps) -
-..CJG and the orgnisation of port labour Order No. 62. illog,ai
authoritios.h?oxe not rosooctod. the r,.gulations in three (This
lonOthy article deals with the organisation of port labour and port
foe:3, roprouching iiG for not having kept in .force the forner
relations ruling tt-e activities! of the Triesto port vorkors. First
of ll o non-political port worrsI labour office should be ro-?
extaVtiothod., as in the rout of Italy for safeguarding discipline
-gill r.Criesto be e:?eloded. .??7270M television network?
140.011.1.TOLE 71TT Cor:runist :?arty ominfor Pa) weekly, Jan. 21st, 1952
A...-Lici.es ? ()ports:
s work live in th; noziing classes of all cc) untriee
:Tufo ?tion. held in T1..ostc.1 in presence of Italian Senator
Pa I c 1)71-at01:10
-Meetinp? of Contral Comii,toe of 'Fri"' s .Communist Party concluded -
Llo adpcpiosiu about the Party ond its struggle -lbr poac and
.,.-Jori(ers I unity - Vidt,.1ils conclusions ( stressing t ED co nt Indict iorx3
vo,'.ong vani.ouk; poi:Li:lc-al. parties, the citizens' profound discontent
t he i. iLrn cbloni sot ion of t L FTT y and the olo se co op orat ion
th0 -Italian and Slav natiorfaists, the so-called Indepordentists,
;ho,r_pitoist.,s, and ADTG, on the .c.onpaon basis of an Anti-Ooirmunist and, -
Ant i.r.T.t s ian : y, promoted by ti??? Anglo-American warmongers)
:77Shot ,eye (oritioising recent editions of the various local
.pal?irs, fur example -"Corriere di Trieste" ? - which "with the pretext
of the flag withdrawn from the City Hall, wants .:";MG to set up a
issionar regirro fox the Commuml A dmini str-.,tion and "Prove."
which with its porsistbnt reminders about the tripartite note forgets
that .the Belgrade) thosis on th o tomixrary postponement of the Triosto
prb lam is shared by -De Gasporio, ? "Both parties arc nto st ed in
shelving this reblem, and therefore they did not want the adminis-
"? tre.tivo L:1?44et ions to bo hold In'. Trio stet)
-Oomounists should unite to u rgo revision ofrents
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Communal elections (editorial by Giuseppe Pogassi)
The problem of comMunel elections has again become a subject of great
interest since it was raised at the -City Council by our Party, -which ifloi
dentally al.a-): sent a letter to General :Winterton (see PS 160, page 6)*
The twofold postponement of these elections last your was welc;..mte to
the.. litlant peIiaj Which aims .at a .partition uf the L, apart 'from beizz
eift for De Geeperi, who otherwise vou1d have -returned.. from iimerica cempletely
? eoty-hended. .
? e The elections would have seriously interfered with the secret intrigues
of the various foreign policies. Not only woad electoral poleei OS deneuncc3.
as unbearable the "status sio" and. attempts at an etebe.::.c solution, but e.
strong vote for our Party wilich. insists on the peace treaty be:3.np:, reet)octed,
was very much feared. The citizens were to be prevented-from disturbine these
intrigues by voting against the -status quo, and for the rut-mien of the two
zones, thereby putting an end. to -Titoto terrorism and ,i.ingle-J:enericen domination.
Yet thee() intrigues still continue and the arrival of the now Yugoslav
ambassador Velebit Rome has given them a fresh impulse. his statement.
that he has come t o settle all p =Ong accounts between the two c.-.nntrie
indicates that all obstacles standing in the way ef anti-Soviet aggression
are now to bo removed.
Statements to about the same effect were made by the raajority of the
Trieste city council which moreover revealed is intention to hold elections
only after the settlement of the PT .problee i.e. to c...enti rale indoitfl.Lto ly
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the life of the city ceuncil- whoSce mendate .heS. long. expired.. In eur opinion
the. matter of elections in Zone A., should be kept entireley apart from .the
? Anglo ..Areerican imperialist lc- intrigee s; the SamO, holds go rd f i the e lect ions
in Zone B which the Tito gang should. not be taller:Ai to falsify -by. eggreeeive
violence,
UNITA OPERAIA - SU weekly, January 23rd, 1952
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Scandelous treatment of workers - Protective measures abolished in Zone B-
,
.yetemetic dismissal of apprentices (Lu)
In Zone B a. systematic destriwtion of all the positive atteinments of
the war of lib erala on, is being ca. /Tied. out. In the years I 9;47-1 948 regulations
protecting aI.prontiooswere made which provided. against exploitation and
employment in trades other than that to which they had been apprenticed.
Also they were eeployed inthe proportion of one apprentice to ever,y
three qualified. workers, and wore er anted regular contracts which were valid
for three years, after which the: apprentices became -qualified workers, -
After 1 943, when .all hone.st. labour representatives and manngars were
persecuted, the. above-mentioned regulations and. contracts were abolished .
ar apprentims wore dismissed or _traneforred to other work or oven replaced
by older workers.
In this manner the -youth of Zone B was thrown into the streets, in
- spite of labour contracts, and lefb to its own. fate.
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The_ nk-.1- standard _1. s 60,000 and not 20,000 lire monthly Van oni
law aril small farmers - Sam: demands to 1.)MC- (Lb)
Lecording to the Varrni law, which N145 CatCrld0 to our Zone, all those
earning mon. than 2i0,000 lire a year must declare their income. The new
law has bran criticisod,as the minimum amount necessary for a reasonable
standard c_:f liv auy.:ents to at least 60-0000 lire monthly and npt ,to 20/000.
The quostionaires Wore distrftbuted 1...nly ono .,-Ionth ago tirld lasny protests were
nuOessany be fore S`j no Lis L:2-uct ions were a ddc: d, Thar cf ore -the .6 ssoci tion
of Small farmers sub7aittd -.13.-.1? following denandsto that thu Order which
dearnds the incore doclr,r-at7' a by January 31st be annslIed: that :the divot
taxes be reduced; that the miaimum living-stanitard be ihcreased to 480,000 lire
a year; that the tho declarTtions be postponed Jun 3.".th..
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LE "Ulf 111F, NOTIZIE - Demochrist inn Party, January 23rd, 1952
rt-ii cies end rm.? r t s:
-PcIla has ytL - s policy of ",a0countancy" to be lloro active
;trd -provide w:-.1-3( for 500,000 ummoloyod (Fa)
-31 killed in Elizabeth (TJSA) air crush, includinp; fl.:Tmer war minister
Patter:3On (Fa)
-Ecyrt nay recoi,!P arms from Russia - Foreign miniater
asked Vishinski in Paris for supply ?:if auturaatio weapons srld tanks rh)
-Churchill loft how York this morning, .bound for iL,onden -
fipdat with Labour on his return (Pa) -
-Gen. Ridgway again warns fiiino-iierth Koreans (Pb)
-)Ao re press opinions n Italianbdgut ( o t aria 1 )
-Com-lAttou constituted or crcation. of porimrnont theatre in Trieste (La)
-Tcbacco women workers hold three meetings today - sent
Prefecture, dd, and Labour Office - o far no results (La)
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PRIMOR3K1 DNEVNIK - Slovene Communist (pro-Tito), January 201h 1952
Articles -and. r_e_a_l_*ts:
-.Russia's "peace pact" aims at dividing worla into apheroa of
influence Economic CommItteo acoopts Yugoslav proposa.l.
improvement of standara of living and against -inflation .(Fa)
4-1il1 "substitutes" meet tomorrow? .- husaia again ' hinders nogotiations
for .AuStriln treaty.- Trieste problem r...4ated to that of Austria (Fa)
-Fronch. Socialists not in Government - Soalalits stross necd of
dirct.rogotiion3 n 'rench-Tunisian controversy (Fa)
.-Arab- world. s upports- Tunis..population Mdra incidents yesterday -
,.8 dead .and several injUred (Fa)
??iIllogal,ocoupation?of island on.Mur river -- HUD gary rejects Yugoslav
, . .
oompromise' (1ila) ?.
?...German Social!-Domocrats against German collaboration in West's
dufense (n) "
loavors 7Tashington (Pb)-.
...Dismissal,s. at San Marco - Yesterday's' fivo hour nopptiations at
Lb our Office unr,,ccessful.-. Now -meting tomorrow (La) - ? .
??COTII-iii3Si011 qf Lnauiry giveSunsatisfactory report about causos of
'collective .poisoning - What about lvorkers.': poor wages and small
milk ration? (ta)
-,32.1. million lire for ropair of roads connecting Trio:Ate with suburbs
Trieste-Bazovica road to be repaired.- What abont ?attic! -,rough at
Ba-zoviaa? - What about Svo. Krih (St -Croce) --road and those linking
coast with 3tradadc.11 Friuli? (La..) -
-Ono radio sot for evory two families - in relation to its population
the ?TT is probably sccon only to. :Denmark .?(La)
-Coordination Committee for Uayday celobration Local oorumittoos will
shortly be appointed whilk.) socrotariat Will draw up pro,!7.rram (La)
...Ignoranco or 3:>:cossive "zeal"?. (reprinting letter -from reader who
reports .uase of a post-card nv.ilod in Trieste and addressed to
Barkovlje (Baroola) WhiCh V/8.8 ..SOIlt to -.Yugoslavia)
--Zono Presidency has new internal teloOhone exchange (Li))
4-.Incroased allowenoos iD illogitimoto and abandonod childron (Lb)
This Btftletin consists of transla:tions of headlines and summario.6 of
editorials, articles. and . news reports of interest to AMG,.. selectod
from the local and, occasionally, foreign lores. Text in brackets and
precedo,d by the sign + consists of explanations by the edi'tor of this
Bulletin. Foreign news is marked "F", local "L", if .Peatured- it is in
addition marked. "a", if of secondary importance "b", AU translations
are summarized unless otherwise stated.
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w dinar exch.ansee rate in FTT' s Ytegeselav Zone (Fa)
Followine the devaluation of the dinar, which is legal tender in the
Yugoslav Zone of the YTT, the YMG has issued an Order about the new rate
of exchange and the amount at which golic coins Can be bought and sold.
The "Istrskn Banka"(Istrien Bank) is autharized to change foreign currency
at the fined rate. In this way the econoeke of the Zone will be strengthened
and an opportunity given for the establishment of commercial relation e with
foreign, countries, thus stabilizing and improving the Zone's internal market.
Here ern some rates of exchange: 1 British pound Sterling - 840 diners; 100
French francs - 85.715 diners; 100 Italian lire - 48 dinars; 1 USA dollar -
300 dinars.
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pi quEsas_ - Pro-Italy, non-party daily, January 20th 1952
Articles antrepents:
-Crisis in Tunisia approadhing danger point - Attempt at rebellion by
National-Coekeunist Arabs firmly 'repreeSed - 8 dead and 27 injured in
clash at Mateur - Problem threatens stability of new Frendh Cabinet (Fa)
-No fixed aNemittments for Allied strategy in Asia (Fa)
-Radio speech by Defense Comnissioner in Bonn - Recon.stitution of German
Army announced withoUtnrhetoric - 300-400,000 youngsters to be
conscripted (Ia)
-4xditeennt among monarchists about forthcoming elections in Southern
Italy - The Hon. Consiglio resigns as a sign of protest against alliance
with neo-Fascists (Fa)
s journey to Munsan - Towards solution of Korean, negotiations? -
Long talk by Sunreme Commander with delegates and with General Van
Fleet (Fa)
-investigation of secret papers of lotteghe Oscura"- Togliatti appeals
to Moscow in order to tame internal "revolutionaries" e. His journey
to Rusein avoided succausion by Longo and Secdhia - Underground battle
between Di Vittorio and Novella within (IL (second of series)
-Militany airplane crashed in Lazio (Italy) - Body of only one of the
two pilots recovered (Pb)
-White strike tomorrow at San Marco (La)
-7?,arcole 's niate rnity and Child Welfare" Institute already in operation =
`efficiel inaeguration- this morning - Prof. Costantinides replaced by
Prof. Donini as Head of Psychiatric Hospital (La)
-live houses built by IACP in Ponziana now under roof - They comprise
75 flats which will be ready in April (La)
-Mesees and diabetics (editorial note referring to transformation of
present cammunal mess in Viale XX Settembrc into a diabetic 111025,
swIgesting that it would be sufficient if only part of the mess wore to be
for diabetics)
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Use of AUSA funds .E.g.,anted to hosEital s (Lb)
In April 1948 the local American AUSA mission transferred to Mr. Palutan,
' then president of h. provincial deputation, the sum of 81 million lire to
improve and oquip the provincial hospitals.
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.This amount has boon distributed as follows: the provincial lunatic
asylum 30 millions; the illedical school 1 million; the school for the
mentally defective 2 millions; the deaf-mute school. 1- million; the
provincial school "Sergio Lag;hi" 2 millions.; thc Irovincial consumptive
assistance 25 millions; the open-air school ("Petitti. di Poroto") 2 millions;
stroptomycin troatmont .12 millions.
The largos allocations of 50 and 25 millions respectively wore for
tho lunatic asylum and for assistance to consumptive? particularly
for the purchase of modern equipmf..mt, which only arrived recently.
Since the American Aid came to an end, the use of the grants is
supervised by the American Political Advisor at AMG Mr. Leonard Unger.
Torporrow at 15.30 at Via Pondaros 23, the Zone President and Dr. Clova
will officially submit to Miro Unger the final accouut:s for the 81 million
lire.
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IL GORR:flail DI TilLiZTE - pro-FTT? Janupxy 20th, 1952
Articles and roportst
...Italian parliament will be asked to inquiro into .2olico methods -
Justice badly soryed 8tato must protect citizens (-1- in connection
with "Egidi case") - Mooting between Poila and 15 Airerican oconomists
Cabinc,t moot tomorrow (pa)
-.Moscow refuses to sign-Austrian Treaty if FIT is not first constituted -
Russia -,-.?onews demand to tie up the two problems (pa)
-Huge copper deposits discovered at Majdampek. (Yugoslavia) Modern-
isation of Yugoslavia's industries - Belgrade rejects Hungarian note
on Mur river island (pa)
...Drama of France and of the world botwoon 1933 and. 19)15 - How attack
on Czechoslovakia was preparod at Borchtesgadon Goebbale! "we
? fear nobody" Mussolini's echo - Chambolaists move .and. Munich
Da:Ladder' s mistake (5th of series)
-.British Ambassador in Teheran (Shepherd) replaced (Pb)
-4 million dollars1yMA to aTIBIDAR (Italian ironworks industries)
(Fb)
-.Various factors causing disturbance in radio receptions - Too army.
broadcasting stations in radios of few miles - Corfmon agreement
among managers of various transmi-Aers v,ould. help to coordinate
various frequencies (La)
-Maladministration at Triosto Joint Hospitals - 1Thy does AMG lol/V in
appointing a capable manager who knows the moods of the population (La)
4.404.?
Cold terrorism (editorial)
A &Alice at Trkstois political and economic history of the past
fifty years reveals the roasons why this port has for the time being lost
its original function which it so brilliantly performed under the Austrian
regimo. At one time all comm;mcial inerests is Trios-to were resolutely
opposed to annexation by Italy; but din'etly aftor the collapse of the
Austrian empire they changed sides with the agility of smart businossmen,
and took an active part in the finauoing and support of fascism.
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In 1933 Mussolini founded the ira (Institute for Industrial Reoonstruotioi.
which on the pretext of nationalising the major Italian industries made them
subservient to the fascist interests. The industrial leaders then in power
were not eliminated but assigned to posts of command inside the new structure.
Soon the deep contrast between Trieste's natural function and Italian
capitalist .policy became painfully clear. Genoa, Naples, and Venice claimed
and obtained economic priority over Trieste. Spozndic meek attempts DTI de by
Triestine merchants and shippers to oppose this trend were of no avail; they
had no choice but to follow suit. It was a process which step by step
turned :the exponents of Trieste's economy . into adversaries of Trieste, bent
on dismantling the economic armoury of their own city, with the result ? that
all our representetive industnial plants gradually passed into the ownership
of the IRI and its affiliations. At present the Fiadder which controls
nearly all Italian metal worte 'possesses 75 per cent of the sham capital
of the Ilva Couroany. The Vinmare entirely owns Lloyd Triestine and does
its best to switch Trieste's traditional shipping lines to -America and the
Levant over to the large Italian ports. There is not one big banking
institute in Italy, the Bence Commerciale Italiana included, that is not
under direct IR' control.
These larvelopments, backed, either voluntarily or under compulsion,
the industrial loaders of Trieste, find their political expression in
rrodontista as the only means by which these people can, hope to retain
their dominant position and influence. Of eoursc, they cannot afford to state
plainly and crudely the motives underlying their longing for reincorporation;
so they make a great fuss about ideological and national arguments, flags,
and s entiment e, invoking racial incompatibility, shedding tears and fabricat-
ing myths. Those who refuse to be impreseed by those histrionic tricks, are
boycotted and subjected to a system of morel isolation and persecution in the
form of press attacks, cartoons in comic papers, libel and politicel smear
which can best be described as "cold terrorism".
There . era:, however, forces in Trieste able and determined to resist
this drive. They are rallied around the banner of the Independentist Mavement
which not only aspires to act as a mouthpiece for the universal diacontent over
the present state of affairs but is engaged in coebating it also in the
economic field which is the all-important background against which ti-p present
etruggle is being waged. Indepandontism is, in this some, a social movement
as it strives to restore Trieste 's. rateral economic functions., to wrench its
productive potentlel from the claws of selfish monopolists and to denonstrate
the perfect viability of an economically independent F.T.T. At the same time
it endeavours to warn the governing powers in Trieste against the dangers in-
volved:. by their protection of industrial irredentism and the consequent
attraction exorcised on the local political forces by the extremist right-and-
left-wing currents* .Independentism is a political middle-way. movement, averse
to fanaticisn and biassed against no one. It is neither anti-Italian nor
enti-Slav and, least of all, arti-Triestine and coapletely inmene. to "cold
eerrorism".
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Citizen's defence (editorial)
This editorial is written in connection with the so-called "Egidi case".
neidi is an Italian who was accused of murdering a young girl in the outskirts
,..47 Rome. The accusation was based on his confession totho wine during the
investigation by the home Police. But once in front of the Magistrate, he
re tracted everything, declaring that he admitted the crime only be Call so badly
tortured during the first police interrogation. Iie was discharged by the
Court because of insufficient proof, and his case, subsequently brought to
the attention of the Italian Parliament, is becoming a public scandal in Italy.
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Commenting on the "Egi.di case", the "Corriere" criticises the modicval
mothods of the Italian Police and proposes certain r..?forms and innovationt.3
concerning preliminary proceedinf2p 3n investigation of criminal cp.50;7,,
order t J.init the present poor of the Italian Police in this respect
and, to avoid similar 'a-buses of its aothority.
MMSAGGMO V-S.1\1143TO - Udine Trieste edition),Ital.right-wing, Jan. 20th,1952
Articles and or to:.
...Islam causes concern to London and Paris - Eden reports to King
George on urgent British problems - British Anfbassndor who inspired
Morrisonls policy sacked - Russia still wants to tie Trio ste problem
to Austrian p3ace but Substitutes say "No" (Fa)
-Groat Britain will not receive steel until end of year (Fa)
-Pope Pius XII encourages Chinese Catholics to resist persecutions (Fa)
-"jackals" in flood area They hoard food destined for victims (Fb)
.-Monarehist party protests against suspension of film "Trieste Elia"
(Lb)
PJ.E../sz (editorial note)
Those people who only care for thortelves have no ripiit be speak about
the Motherland, the nation, principles and moral rights. The flag has no
Moaning for them unless, perhaps to used it as a napkin* Therefore they
should not so easily take offence about the colour and significance of the
flag particularly in view of the fact that in May and Juno 1945 their
feelings wore revealed in quite a different way.
Now the support for the rod halberd flag is unanimous. Some gentlemen
write that 'just as the lion of San Marco is the flag of Venice, Triesto.
should have the White halberd on the rod field. They 7,0 uld lile the days
of San Marco to return, when Italy was divided into various snail states* -
But times have changed* Italy is unin,ed and the flag of San Liorco remains
that of Venice but not of the entire notion. Now when Bump? is alJou to
imite, the patriots of the halberd, attempt to constitute a miall state
which ,:lvon London, Washington, and Paris declared impossible and fly the
flog of San Sergio as the flag of Anti-Italic.
The Germans wished to replace the Mamoli hymn by the San Giusto one,
as the Indepondentists would 1112 to replace the tricolour by the red
halberd* But the ,San Giusto hymn will remain the hymn of Trieste and the
Mameli that of Italy, including Trieste*
(continued on page 11)
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L'UNIT4 - Milan (Trieste edition),Itahan Communist Party, Jan* 20th 1952
Articles and reports:
-In defence of the Party's property - One million subscribed - Ever
wider and firmer approval of fight against Titoist band, - Crowd at
Jacksetich's lecture at San Giacomo People t 5 dome (La)
-Confronted, with ?RDA's brutal attitude - New strike at,lan Marco
tomorrow morning from 7 A.M. to 10 A.M. (La)
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The Communist Party demands eluctions - Open letter to General Winterton (full)
To the Commander of the Br./TS Zone of the FTT, General Winterton:
The FTT s Communist Party chooses this way of addressing 7,04 instead of
onPlying, as it would prefer, for an interviewsin' order to overcose the .
ifficulties you have lately put in the way of such encounters.
Last autunn, when all Parties had submitted the lists of their candidates
d incurred considernble expenses on account of the electoral campaign which
ans due to ? start on September 7th, you postponed the elections a few hours
before that date, and on October 7th you postponed them again to 1952.
However unconvincing to the majority of the population were the re sons
adopted by you and by the leaders of some parties for this postponement, they
are now completely overcome.
Thi census of the population was completed some months ago; the Communal
budget estilaates have been drewn up by the Communal Councils which terminated
their iwat(:; the Minter season is not so rigorous as to endanger in any way
the flow of electors to the polls, ere, besides, is nearly over.
The present state of the Communal administrations in this Zone occupiod
by the troops under your commend is generally recognized as extremely anti-
democratic. besides being detrimental to the interests of the population of
some Communes, it offends entire populetion of the Zone by the condf,.tion
of humiliating inferiority. in whidh it lives in comparison with that of other
people,
Therefore, the trustees:nip military Administration under your supremo
comard should immediately announce the dete on which the electoral campaign
will start, allowing eufficient notice for the elections to be held in a demo-
cratic manner.
The Communist Party EV aits a prompt reply by Your Excellency to this
.:.cmLand, with the ? conviction that it oorrectly interprets the desires:of the ?
citizens, end remains, General, Yours faithfully: for the Executive Committee
of the FTT's . Communist Party, Secretary Vit orio Vidall,
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/In evasive communlone released by the special commission about the poisoning
of the women at the Tobacco Factory - Installations leave much to be desired
- A message of sympathy with the unfortunate women from the OGIL (comment)
Apart from the strange fact that the esteemed experts could not discover
enat caused the serious collective poisoning last Thursday, the fact that
they have approved the fitness of the premises does not impress us at all.
Had the commission heeded experts in the matter, they would have realized that
the old Tobacco Factory was better equipped and that greater precautions
against accidents were in force there than is now the case at the ATI.
The ATI personnel demands 'that an end be put to the unbearable and
even dangerous conditions. A message was sent yesterday by the National
Committee of the Tobacco workers "expressing its indignation againstthoee
responsible, and sympathy with the workers".
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GIORNALE DI TRIESTE, Monday edition - Pro -I ta ly, January 21 st 3 1952
Articles and reports:
-Towards concrete fact of united Europe - Progress of Federalism illustrated
by Gonella and Paociardi - Next Cabinet meeting will probably discuss
"Egidi case" (Fe)
-New French Government similar to former (Pa)
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will endeavour to overcome dead4ockin Korea (Fa)
-Russia and Austrian Treaty - Mooting of Substitutes expected today
West stresses fact that Trieste problem has nothing to do with that
of Austria (Fa)
.-Neither suspension nor postponement for income-tax returns in Italy
(Fa)
-Mossadegh accepts US aid - 23 million dollars (Fa)
-36 American soldiers killed in air crash (Fa)
-Cold war between Tito and Hungary - Yugoslav spies and. parachutists
arc a nightmare to Hungary - 'Units of Russian Army along southern
frontier - "Honved" not trusted - pcca crisis: senior officials
search country-side for food (Fa)
-Senator Taft optimistic about agreement in Korea (Pb)
.-American basesin Japanese islands (Ph)
s-lfter many years of military requietion happy mothers and children
return to Barcola Institute (La)
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The Mayor's Radio speech in defence of Trie stet flag "Vie shall never -
renoOnce our Mother:La n0." (1.ra-).
Yesterday morning"Mayor Bartell read the following message to be
transmitted over the Italian Radio:
"Those who ender the rod halberd flag of San Giusto want to conceal
another flag which is not that of Italy, lost their tempers because on
December 31st 1951 I ordered that the fIng of Trieste should be withdrawn
from the City Hall, and only be flown on important national and local holi-
days. For this I am accused of breaking My oath of fidelity to the FTI".
"Tob truthful I never considered I had sworn an oath to the PTT, a
territory which was never juridically constituted., and not entitled
permanently to fly the sacred flag of San Giusto from the City Hall".
I did swear to respect the Italian laws which are still in force in
this territory, as well as the emergency trorisions issued by the authorities
of occupation, but I challenge anyone to prove that on the basis of those.
laws and regulations the Mayor of Trieste is obliged continuously to fly the
flag from the balconies of the City Hall".
"I was right to pro, est against the illegal use of the City's flag
by certain bodies and private offices, which expropriated this flag and
transformed, it into a coat-of*-arms of a never constituted lilree Territory.
Considering that this territory was never constituted, it is not entitled,
to a flag, and especially not this of the City of Trieste. Therefore my
order is quite legitimate, and in conformity with the moral and political
interests of our population".
"1 pannot repeat now all juridical arguments against the illegal use
of Trieste's flag by private bodies, nor recall the thesis according to
which the Italian flag should. be flown from all public and state offices.
want only to *ress that para V of General Alexander's Proclamation No. 3,.
concerning the use of the Anglo-American flags and the prohibition of all
foreign flags, was finally repealed by Gen. Airoy's Proclamation No. 2. In
our opinion it means that the official use of the Italian tricolor, which
was respected oven by the Cerrfans, was re-established. However, when it
was hoisted on November 3rd, the Mayor was ordssrod (by the Allies) to
remove it".
one should doubt our love for the flag of Son Giusto, which was
awarded the (Italian) gold modal. 17e hope that on the occasion ce the
presentation of this medal, the glorious flag of San Giusto may share the
honours with the flag of our Motherland, which we aht.:11.no Tor ronouneen?
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GIORNALE DFT, LUNEDI Proa-Italy? January 21st # 1952
Articlos and 1'912E12:
-Military situation in Eg,spt developing dangerously - Protest by US to
(biro about murder of American nun - More serious clashes tonight at
Ismailia - British tanks in action - Bloodshed in Cairo battle between
police and ? students (Fa)
-London appoints new Athassador (Robert Sengey) to Teheran -
Government hands note to Great Britain belittling closing of consulates
on 1,vhich it. stands fire (Pa)
-Now Commander of Italian Navy (Admiral Manfrx-idi) (Pb)
-wo British civilians and one soldier return from Russian Zone of
Germany (Pb)
-Picard's on in Trieste - He will build his new metal sphere at the
CRD A already submitted to AMG - Shipyards would like to build
it (La)
-Phnsicians thought ho was just drunk but, he died yesterday - A mistaken
diagnosis (La)'
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What is Titoism? (editorial by Diego de Castro)
Last week. Dc Gasperi received the new Yugoslav ambassador Velebit who
presented his credentials. The ovill was a strictly formal one and no
rofer(zice to the problem of Trieste is likely to have been made at that
interview. ? Therefore the general interest at the moment focusses on the
person 'of ambassador Velobit hitself who is one of the most outstanding figures
in Yugoslav public life. In the recent war ha was charged by Tito with the
very delicate task of acting as liaison officer, as it were, between the
Germans and the partisans. Residing in Zagreb during the German occupation,
he conCerned himself with the xchange of prisoners of war and by order of
Stalin and on behalf of Tito, offered the German enerei Glaise not only a
truce but also partisan help for an attack on the Anglo-Americans should
they at t enT t a landing in Istria.
Th c story o: tot i abrupt switch-over. re inind s me of a re cent pamphlet
published jointly by Christopher Mayhew, and secretary Zor Foreim
Affair under Bevin, and his wife ? Coolly who was one of the first women
omployod in the British diplomatic service. This pamphlet is entitled:
nhat is Titoism?" In perusing it the Italian reader feels inclined to
?::)eoulate on whether the passing of government from Labour into Conservative
hands should be ntad as a good or evil event.
Pamphlets of this kind. are terribly dangerous as they serve the purpose
of making the Lain points of Yugoslav propaganda, collected at. their source
in Belgrade, palatable toWestern mentality. It was in Belgrade that Mrs,
Cecily Mayhew was for some turn employed as a staff member of the British
Embassy soon after 194.9 vihen the Anglo-Saxons has already begun to view Tito
and his regime through the rose-coloured lenses of optimism.
The way in which the Mayhew pamphlet is written, is perfectly suited
to influence the ;judgement of the average British or American reader as it
openly, although in the mildest of terms, criticises the Yugoslav government;
hinting, for example, at jails in full operation and at press and political
freedom as aims yet to be achieved, but it takes good care to add that this
lack of freedom is a great. deal more human and tolerable than in any other
communist-ruled country.
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These criticisms are intended to allay the suspicions of the reader
and to no.ko him amenable to tho positive assertions contained in thoporkohlot,
Ho gains the impression that a handful of noble stalwarts, whose enmity
against Moscow dates from. the end of the partisan struggle, are as morn
Davids with primitive slings fighting a heroic dual against tho cominformist
Goliath. This touch of romanticism and solf-sacrificing horoism raisos
Yugoslavia's resistance to Moscow almost to the glories of a myth,
comparablo to our Risorgimonto, only that the Balkan jails are a good deal
11102."J torriblo than Silvio Pellico's priSonlond cominformist executions much
moro cruel and. cynical than thio -,Ihich disgraced the name of Radotzky.
Thoro.lios the rub: that this pamphlot idoalisos for the benefit of 1..7ostorn
mentality ?the infomy inherent in all communist tyrannies beyond the iron
curtain. And the+ cas is furthor ageecavated by the fact that a British
foreign secretary and a woman who belonged. to the diplomatic corps are its
anthors.
Tho pamphlet reflocte faithfully the Labour mentality in regard to
Tito. 17o are far from suspecting Mr. and Mrs. Mayhew of had faith, but
we cannot help- seeing in their work the area) naive and fallacious confidence
with which the past Labour regime hoped to convert a communist dictator of
the Balkan variety to the icieftls of honest and lo.yel. socialism. It is
rumourod: that it was- the British who oncouragod Tito to continue his idoo-
logical campaign against Moscow. Tito, unwilling woutonly to provoke his
groat enemy, hesitated to obey. But from the Mayhew pamphlet omoogos
unmistakably the dosixo of its authors for the ideological triumph of
Titoist socialism and its gradual approach to tho Western socialist doctrine.
They try to domonstrate with a welter of. arguments that Tito's and Stalin's
communist theorios are entirely different in essence. These oxortions
are as sterile and preposterous as in the middle ages were the heatod
discussions about the sex of the angels. Hard and merciless facts have
nothing to dd with lofty theories and ideological daydreams:
The now Conservative Government, headed by the ingenious sceptic
Churchill, should resolutely drop all pretence of supporting Tito for
ideological motives, and confess frankly that it does no for reasons of
military and political convopience. It is an open question, however, whe-
ther Churchill will not try to take., his rovengo on Stalin for the loss of
British erostigo in Yug)slavia during the war by attempting to enhance: this
prestige through concessions to the Yugoslav government. This possibility
makes ,rryJ fear thot, if we h:ve not fallen from the frying paninto the
fire, we are, to say the least, still in the frying pan.
The revision of electoral lists -'Electibns before the month of May not
practicabloT17nDoro Rinaldini -?almost full)
Order No. 190 of ZMG dated /9-9-194_9 concerning the roguln -Lions for
keeping and revising the oloctoral lists is almost idontical with the
corresponding Italian law.
As for the annual revision the procedure is rather complex and can be
summarized as follows;
I) By October of ea?year 4.-he an yor provides for the compilation of
a list, based on the register, soparatoly for men and women, of all those)
who have the necessary olootoral qualificationn and are rogietord as
permanent rosid.onts. Al]. those who will be 21 years old by April 30th of
the year following that when the annual revisions aro commenced., any also
be included in the electoral lists.
2) By October thei mayor requests documents from the compdtent tribunals
giving proof of any conyietions?
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list of -all citizens who have a restricted liberty as well as a list of those
who keep brothels and gambling clubs.
if) On November 1st the mayor supra= all those with the no
eealifications to apply by November 15th for rej.stration in the electoral
liats.
Not later than December 1 5th the electoral ceranunal conmission compiles
three _separate lists. the purpose of revision.
On the first list are those who have been previously emitted, including
those who will be 21 years eld 1)y April of the following year. Thu second
Lot ,provides for the exclusion of electors n; per para No. 3.
3) By Docembe:-.. 31st the eriyor invites all those who wiSh to object
Le the three lists, to submit their objections to the electoral commission
of the zone before January 15th?
ey December 31st the cemntrial 'commission provides for the revision
of the division of the commune into electoral sections as well as for
assiegling the electors to the different sections. Electors will be assigned
to the section of the Oommune nearest to their dwelling.
7) ]:;' January 25th the mayor ,must submit to the electoral commission:
a) the three lists of the annual revisions; b) the objections. lodged against
those lists; c) the minutes of the revisional operations; d.) the decisions ?
regarding the modification of the sections. ?
8) By ni,larch 3 i st the doctoral conlaissi on. returns to the Commune all
the lists concerning the annue 1 revisions. 1ithin the following fortnight the
Commune brings the lists Up to date, informing the persons concerned about the
decisions of the eleciteral commission.
9) The corrected. lists, together with the lists of the annual revisions
approved, must be publicly displayed fro:a the 15th to the 30th of .April. Any
objection which all citizens are entitled to make before the Court of Appeal,
must be submitted ithin 20 days after the notification or within 30 days
after the publication of the corrected lists.
Taking all this into account the most convenient date for the elections
to be hold would be after May 31st of any year in order to give everyone an
opportunity to lodge their claims or protests against exclusion from the
,Aectoral lists. .If, on the other hand, the elections were held at an earlier
dAe, e.g. on the 10th or 20th of April, the Pro-electoral tasks would coincide
1,vith the annual revisions of the cacatoral lists, thus causing tremendous
onf us ion.
(+Ed. - The paragraph nurabers are exactly as tven in the paper.)
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'tape at Radio Trieste? (editorial not
Yesterday morning Mayor "lArtoli visited the Radio Trieste station and
although the policeman, who recognised hire, let him pa ss,an unknown man
:eretended to examine his docusents. This epiSode reminded the Mayor of the
'i?criod. 1943-45 when the Director of the TELVE had to show various documents
to the German Gestapo before entering his, office in Pjazza Oberdan.
Kole at the Savoie
If we are correct, the Excelsior Hotel belongs to IN which has an
entirely Italian peaket-book. Why then, have they allowed a Slav organization
0;hite Slays and Titoists) to organize a dance there? Perhaps because it is
so long since Slav songs were heard here? Or maybe because -they thought it
necessary to give the impression to the tourists in the Hotel that Trieste is
a bilingual city?
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Haapy opening ceremo,tly_at now hotelNolly Hotol") in Corse Cavour - Senior
civil and military authorities at official luncheon given by Coun:6-Gaetano -
Marzotto, creator of new building (La) .
The inauguration of the new "Jolly Hotel" in Corso Cavour was
celebrated yesterday with a sumptuous luncheon given by Count Marzotto to
the senior civil and military authorities of t he Province. The groat
Venotian industrialist was accompanied by his sons, Counts Vittorio, Umberto,
and. Mannino, and by Countess 7,Crura.. The ,ceremony was attended by GorDral
Winterton, the Mayer, the Prefoct? Vitanza and Oonsalvo, General IThitelaw,
Col. 7oden, Messrs, Haraldson? Stant], SaLon, Smith, Battensby, 'Ungar, and
representatives of other local bodies. Luncheon lasted until 3 P.M. in an
intimate and,. cheerful atmosphere. Count Marzotto expressed his satisfaction
at the completion of this work, thanking all those who contributed to the
success of the undertaking, General Winterton, soaking in Italian, Elttids
"I am glad to open this beautiful hotel and drink to the health of 0Ount
Marzotto and, his fine enterprise. Good wishes". After a few words by the
Prefect and by the Mayor, Count Marzotto !Jokingly said,: "I hope this- hotel
will always bo full, and this not only for my benefit or for that of CIASTA
(? the owner of the hotel) but f cir- the ,city.
TJLTIN2 NOTIZIE Demochristian Party, January 21st, 1952
Articles and reports:
..Aftor bloody events of yesterday Nahas Pasha loses control ovor
situation which bo comes serious - Egyptian :Auden Ls will not Ow to
his orders and prefer to form hemsolvos into guerrilla units *-
British paratroopers returned to Ismailia this morning - Britons and
Egyptians accuse each other o:' doath of Catholic nun (Fa)
...Korean Reda say: "You must give way on airfields otherwise war will
continue" (Fa)
-.Six time-bombs explode at Saigon (Pa)
of Popular Front proposed by Togliatti during his electoral
speech at Naples yesterdly (Fa)
--!.lossadegh threatened by organization of Moslem fanatics (Pb)
(-1- a partisan chief responsiblo for Mussolini's
execution) taken to hospital in serious condition Doctors r yfused
to give any explanation about his illness (Pb)
.-1-Tork starts and then stops again at Tobacco Factory - Now cases of
asphyxia among woman-workers this morning - Inquiry commission and
authorities were present - Lnothor 20 women brought to hospital
There is somothing wrong in organization of Italian Tobacco Factory
The trouble :Ls not only the fumes etc, but also the wor1a3rs' bad,
health and low wages (La)
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:31t_uation Llt_ he CTiDA sti1ravo - The Sit-down strike followed at 10 A.M.
?a total strike CLri.)
The sit-down strilm proclaimed last Saturday at the ODA shipyards was
c.:rriod out today between 7 and 10 J.M. when, owing to a further ag4,ravation
or' the situation, the labour organizations decided to make a total strike
follow unt il 7 . tomorrow,in order to nrevbnt the M/S "A ugus t us" and a
group of workors from departing for Venice where the ship was to be fitted
out.
Ae-nwhil, a merting should have been held at the Labour Office whore
the workers' rLpresePtaLivcs were awaiting a reply to their earlier proposals
a*th a view to findinfr, a way out of the controversy. To justify their absence,
the all, delefy_stes sL ict word that they still could not consult representatives
of the firaz emcerni2u. in the 1:katter. At 1 P.M. the labour delegates were
still waiting for an answer.
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PRIMORSKI DNEVNIK - Slow ne Communist (pro-Tito), January 18th,, 1952
Art i.c1 es and reports:
-Russia's "peaceful" propt.sal rejected. - Political Committee forwarded
Vishiaisky's p :sop os al on control over /Item weapons to Disarmament
Committee and. rejects-a all other proposals regarding Korea and Five
Power Pact - 00uri ty Council discusses Kashmir problem - Question
of new UN members agpin in foreground, (Fa) ?
-ttvo authoriz,ed to few 'now French Government - 401 "against 101 -
Victims in Tunis -(23t)?
-In his speech to Arserialn Con6ress Churchill supported closer
collf.,boration b twocri USA and Commonwealth while Europe should unite,
in Federatien Careful words on British policy in Far East (Fa)
-Sudan's CionStitution draft submitted to State Assel-sbly (Fa)
-Comsoxraealthls :anancl diff ult. 0 s ?Ono and a half billion dollar
deficit in six months - Efforts to increase exports - Istsert rostrictio.J.?
mean more austerity (Fa)
-Truce in Korers by and of next March? - Russians intend to cling to
Prosont dennnds. until Spring and then give in and, conclude truce (Ala)
-.Arac ries stops Military aid to Iran (Pb)
-Velebit received by Dc Ga,spori (Fb)
-New picture "Trieste Isis" is a foul attack on LLS and our struggle
(+ repni.nt from yesterday's comment I'Corricre di Trieste", which
defined the film as very had and on which 1-11G. should not have allowed
to be shown since, owing to its political distortionit endangers
public ponce snd gives an entirely false ides of Trieste)
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This Bulletin consists of translations of headlines and sum:aeries of
editorials, articles and news reports of interest to ' MG selected
from the local and, occasionally, foreign press. Text in bra cla:ts and.
preceded by the sign + consists of explanations by the editor of this
Forcigi news is ms.rked "F", local "L", if featured it is in
addition marked "a", if of secondary importance "b". translations
? are suirtaarized? unless otherwise stated..
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-0-- aeasants will not give one square foot of their land for
donationalioation of outlying districts - Lots at "Oreh" (Noghere)
examined without knowledge of a/ners (La)
-7hat MO the reason for changing the name of Zaule's Industrial Port
Authority into Trieste's Industrial Pert Authority? (Perhaps
because "Trieste" is a ,loro Italian name than "Zaulo") (editorial
note)
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Clarification of rumours about elections in Zone B (Lb) (full)
With rofLoo)nce to the statements published by somo Trieste papers,
Kopur (Capodistria) reports t..: t there is no talk of any administrative
elections. Howevor, elections for the committeos of youth organizations
are taking place, ani elections for the Italo-Slav Anti-Fascist Union will
also be held.
JIORIIALJJ; TRITISTE - Pro...Italy, non-party daily, January 18th, 1952
Articles and reports:
-4bhurchi11 stresses main points of Anglo-American policy - No
surrender in Asia to Comunist throats European Union and London's
isolationism - Talk wita Truman on Atom control oxpooted (Fa)
-Parliarunt (Italian) facing problei of civil servants - Governmont's
position appears rathur diffioult Project criticised oven by
m abors of majority narty All sectors demand groater extension -
Publication of now Domoohristian review Do Nicola will reply
today (Fa)
?Dioarmamant plans discussed by UN - Russian plan postponed until
Fobroary Vishinsky's now attack against West (:la)
-.;7 11 Germany be allowed to produce weapons? - Problem being studied
in Allied capitals (Pa)
-Results of Churchill's mission - Tons of steal but many dis-
appointments too - Eden's report to Cabinet - Japanese move in favor
of Chiang Kai-shok cond-mnod by Great Britain (Fa)
-After proclamation of Libya's independence) - Senoussils Kingdom
looks solid basis - Problem of forthcoming elections (Fa)
?Soocossful operation by Venice Road Police - Smuggling of American
cigarettes stopped Cigarettes arrived from Trio sto Inspector
of FTT's Finance Guard among thoso arrested (4- Rs 'faoie Guido who
had previously boon dismissed from C.G.F. for other offonces) (Pa)
Talal invited to dinner by Einaudi (Pb)
-After .:(31 1 Kubir clashos senior officers detained at heascar (Pb.)
-Northerners rofuse discussion with Rod Cross delegation (Pb)
-Fire damage to Austrian Commercial Office not very great - No
interruption of aork
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Commencoment of street repairs (La)
The inauguration of the new trolley-bus service to Roiano and the
immia nt roplacoment of trams on lino No. 911" by trolley-buses have brought
the ea n dit ion of the city's s roots into the limelight..
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The. sewerage repairs between?Viale XX Settembre-Via.Carducei end. Piaz''- ?
Perugino-Via ]?,evroltella, and the laying ef the new aqueduct to Mentebellop.
are virtually ,completed.
Allocations have boon made for repairs to the sidewalks and the paving
of many streets in the center. Some streets will be given an asphalt layer,
which is more suitable for modern traffic. The following streets are
included in this Program: Torrebianca and Valdirivo, Corso Garibaldi., Piazza
Garibaldi; the first sector of Vitae D'Axinunzio, Viola Min,mare. Since all
those streets .are located in the city center, their adaptation is evidently
very important. Passo Goldoni will also shortly be open to traffic.
We should like to have soon the Via Dante and mix ottobre included in
this program, thus allowing a better distribution of traffic in this sector.
In Piazza Liberbaf an illuminated fountain will be built, which will
greatly improve the square, but it needs much better street lighting. as
does rase Corso Oavour.
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New elections inZono3for en_forcipL2 decision in Trieste? - The opinion
of the MN of Istria about this new Yugoslav move TrisT-
Rumour has it that the XMG intends to hold elections in Zone B within
the ne:t half year, thus anticipating tbem by one year.
A cc ording to-the Ist CU. this ant ic ipati.)n of the elections is
due to political reasons, viz. to 0,Aspel AND to hold electi xis also in
Zone At the same time, these elections would be considered as a
plebiscite for Yugoslavia, thus preparing the fambus partition of the FTT.
A spokesman of the Istrian OLIT has declared. that if elections are held
in Zone B. the italitAn government Should no longer delay a free plebiscite,
for the entire 'PTT.
RecOliecti,n4- of the 1950 clectiona, whon people were beaten .up and
compelled by force ti.g)o to the polls, are st.L11 fresh in their minds.
witnesses, and many personal statements in the hands of As/1G, testify to the
real meaning of "elections" in' Zone 33.
Zone B5 atmosphere grows increasingly unbearable. Belgrade circles.
are doing all they can to hamstring the w-.)/Izers cMployed in Zone .4$ whose
families live in Zone B. The Istrian population is at the end of its tether..
and cannot endure 'another election.
T312....104.2!strike at an Marco shard's - Meetingtomorrow at the Labour.
Office (Lb T ?
fter examining the situation at the San More(.,) shipyards the Cali, in
agreement -with- the SU, decided .to organize a two days' strike from, Saturday,
Despite various diScussions and the complete success of the suspension of.
over-time work which proved the unity of the workers, the CICA Directorate
still refused to compromise and therefore strong action was needed. Those
workers who should be transferred. to Venice on the departure ti Venice of
the "Lugustus"? will not leave, owing to the strike. Siv)uld..tho mooting'
at the labour Office be unsuccessful, the CU will take further action.
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Only Austria benefits from the Trieste-Hamburg "duel" - Agreement with
Hamburg is Considered, a vital necessity - Princi7S-of "geographical
dietance" regarded as inapplicrblo to traffic ?issues - Hamburg's position
reinforced by a vast network of shipping linos (by :7erio iTerdie)
Hemberg justifies its keen competition for tho lareest passible share
of Austrian :overseas traffic by denying emphatioally the decisiveness of
geog.aphical distance. in international traffic, and by stating that Hamburg
has always held a prominent olio() in Austrian import and export trade with-
out prejudice to the Adriatic ports. Hamburg further contends that it has
lost roughly 5C),-/o-' of its 'hitrtor]anfl' so that to obtain now 'sources of traffic
has be00rra3 a matter of life. area death for it. We must admit. that there is
a measere .of truth in this argument The Elbe, rightly considered the main
artery of.Baet Gorman -traffic.. has ceased to be a Voetern river 's.i/1.-30 the
end of the war and the detritent caused by Hamburg 'by this important change
is inuttrated by the drop of .7abe traffic from 4..5 million tons in 1936
to 0733 million tons in 1949. Moreover, the port of Bremen has emerged as
a new competitor for Austria's overseas traffic, in-creasingly used by her
for :her ee,porte of iron to England and her imports of coal from the US.
:Lt-rue that Hamburg has retained a portion of its former Czechca-
Laovalciv?n traffio bdt it derives little ?befit from it as ..this trade
current is entirely in the hands of the Soviet state authorities .and
consequently neither profitable nor capable of being increased by any
efforts 1:Tamburg may make.:
r..)v.rds Hanburg's policy in regard to Austrian trade it must be
noted tit the most 'uncoMpromising factor in German competition is the
administration of the .German state railways which have ? proved fax' more
intractable that the northern chambers of commerce Or even the port autho-
rities there.. On the other- hand, the weakest .spot in the Adriatic armoury
is not pert installations, which are admittedly excellent, but the paucity
of shipping services. What are Tricatolts and Venice's shipping facilities
compared with Bremen's 130 lime with 230 sailings, not to mention Hamburg's
186 lines with -436 sailings? It? is a notorious feat that Central European
cargoes -shipped through Adriatie ports often have to it a long time for
sailings.?while no such handicap exists in the northern porta. And the.
situation will certainly. not change in 'favour ef the Adriatic ports when
the reconstructiOn of the German mx;rchant fleet, now under way, is completed
and so naked possible an 'all-round reduction of Hanseatic freight rates.
An important el.enent, although difficult to judge and on the whole
uncontrollable, is the role played in Austrian overseas traffic by the
forwarding.a,gente. Next to the port authorities it is they who detormim
tho Orientation Of traffic, for rib one can say.what extra incentives they
may offer "under the counter", to importers and exporters 's? as to make
them prof:Jr ono route to another.: do not blame. them for this. Competition
is Osefdl and, from a broader economic viewpoint, oven necessary. At the
sari() time., however, we can understand the scepticism with which many
obeervers View the possible practical 'effect of agreenents between the
rat -thorn and the Adriatic ports. No one can be expected to act against his
own interests in buSinesspend things it is .feared,will remain much as they
t.170. now. .
.The Austrians who are the bone of contest in this case, have never
concealed their dislike of traffic conventions which are regarded by them as
"cartels" noxious to their trade. Used to profit by the rivalry between the
Adriatic and northern ports, they rejoice in any breakdown of negotiations
for an understanding between them, while competent economic circles in ?
Trieste a nd Hamburg become Jr.ore and more convinced that a Hamburg-Trieste
understauding is a vital necessity and should be reached before the losses
on either side have become too heavy.
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The competition of Venice is not considered by Hamburg as very disturb-.
tug. 'Venice serves minly as a transit port for Southern Bavaria, Tyroloand
Vorarlberg which, at least for the time being, are not included in Hamburg' s
expansion prograrrmo.
It is a gratifying fact that after a long break a regular Italianshipp:
line, run by GENS (the successor of the "Tyrrhenia") is calling again at tt-r.
port of Hamburg. Probably the"Tyrrhonit"will resume this service itself as
soon as its now ships now under construction are completed. Despite its
belated appearance this Italian line is working with fair xv sults. It is
to be hoped also that Italy's largest shipping concern, "Fix-mare, will befo.
long sot up an agency in Hamburg which has never ceased to be the largest
shipping centre for our dried and fresh fruitS, citrus products and wines.
Unlike Trieste, Cr o Oa is not a riwl of Hamburg, but rather of Rotterdam
and lIntvierp, In addition to the direct railway comamications existing
between lifutburg and. the Ittlinn cities of Rome, Genoa, Milan and Venice a
now into r,--ctional express train, the express, connecting Frankfurt,
minajoh, Verona, Florence, and Rome will run as from May 18th of this year.
The German state railways have shown much good will in the field of inter -
national agreements for passenger service and we h ,po that they will shn
simiar comprehension 41; the iuminont tariff conference in Trieste.
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COMIEEE DI TRS TE - Left-wing, pro-FTT Ofttnuaryl 8th, '1952
Articles and reports:
-Churchill 'stresses nature of relations between Great Britain and-USA r.
"I am not. asking for money, ? but steel 'and rat materials" !- Four power.,
- 'control for Suez Canal - Role of third force between USA and Europe -
Great Britain remains center of Commonwealth (Fa) ,
rather confused. organization NATO's reform --Reorganization will
be decided by next Atlantic Conference at Lisbon (Fa)
-London' a. irri tat ion over Yoshida ' s announcement - American pressure =-
Japan openly denounced - British concern for political and comaercial
rePereuesions of irromediabIe bron. between .?o1 trig rind '.Tost'
-American military assistance- to Iran withhold - hiesbadegh-.succoods -
senarating military from economic question '(B's)
-Drama of France and. of the world between 1933 and 1945 - Spanish Confli(...
as told. by Blum and Boncour -.Reasons why France and Great Britain ?,did
n,ot support Republicane.., Groat Britain regarded 'Franco as a. "good - ?
patriot". (3r1 of series)'
-Will Truman's fourth -point be applie el to Southern Italy? (Pb)
:-Changed denomination of Industrial Port (+ AWL- Order 194 changed name
from "Zaulo Industrial Port Authority". into "Trieste Industrial Port -
A uthority") (Lb)
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Trieste in a panic for several hours - Asphyxiation at Tobacco Factory -
100 woman-werh.-ors brought to hospital - HelP, given by Italian Red Cross, FL
Brigade, Civil Police, and private citizens - 22 women kept in hospital -
Various suppositions on causes of incident - Dangerous conditions in promisec,
low wages and insufficient meals - Appointment of an inquiry commission
(with three photos.)' (La)
In this lengthy article the paper gives details of yesterday' s incident
at the Tobacco Factory and makes various suppositions on its causes, praises
the prompt first-aid orgmized by the Italian Red Cross, Fire Brigade, Civil
Police, and the sanitary personnel of the General Hospital and lists the name
of all persons treated at the first-aid station or admitted to hospital.
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It announce than that, paneling the results of an inquiry ordered by the
authorities, all work at the Tobacco Factory will cease for the time being.
Mentioning the labour conditions at the Tobacco Factory, vary low
wages (3,600 lire a week), inadoquato safety a nd sanitary measures and
inoufficiont heals served in the personnel =as during the very short
break of talf an hour, the raper recalls the recent agitation among the
toff about the lack of heating and non distribution of the necessary milk
rations, The Bishop vias told all this when he visited the hospital to zoo
the sick women, but apart from his remarks about gratitude to God, he was
iinablo to 4.vo any consolation.
The promises of the Tobacco Factory are temporarily closed and
' uardad by the Civil Polico..4 commission composed of Dr. Lovenati, chief
of the City's Health Office, end representatives of the "LL'olL" and the
Labour 0qco, will inspect the prentises this morning. Some exports of
the Oommonal lloalth Office think thet t Iv trouble might Lava boon caused by
'umos from cyanide gas used for the processing of fresh tobacco.
The howling: "Much ado about nothing (or almost)", printed by the
clarion' evening put nor in connection with this unhappy occurrence, dcx3s
not ro'OLoot much Christian feeling. Obviously its editors have no relatives
,?ho work, or to bo morea accorato, who r ot at the local Italian Tobacco
'ilaotnry.
.After tho dia^p erronce of the Triostia, firt from the Cit Hall 4- A letterr
to--ra-nryor by ho Counot lor of the Ilanlovcno 1.1-673Fr Front -
Dr. Ginsope Doklar-, a iv.)rove s docioions, by representatives of the independence
Front and of the Slovone Democratic League (Lb) (full)
Dr. ci'iuseppo Dekleva, Goomunal Councillor. of the Italian ani Slovone
Popular Toront, sent the following letter to the Mayor yesterday:
"Dear Mayor,
I an very sorry that I could not attend the Cornual counoil
meeting on the 15th of this month, at ohich the removal of the flag from
the City Hall was cliocussod, since I was unwell.
I therefore take Thu liborty of expressing my opinion on this nattor
in writing.
On the 6th. of thio month the Trio stino flag, the pride of all citizens,
which (according to r clo 8 of the 4.th. Bnclosuro of the Peace Treaty
with ItaLy) also becomo the symbol of the independence and sovereignty
of this r2orrit or y, was withdrawn, I think thr t this withdrawal gravely
offends the sontinunts not only rf the Triosto citizens but of the entire
popuk-tion of this Territory ohich absolutely opi2osos the return to Italy.
Thoreforo, dear Mayor, I protest against the withdrawal of the flag from
the City Hall and approve the statements mado by the Communal Counc illors
of tOu Independence Front and or the SlovLno Domooratio League,
Respectfully
Dr. G. Doklova
Remarks and comonnts Advica from the Gospel (oditorial note)
Sinoo the satirical weekly "Citt,adolla" wont over to "Giornale di
Triesto dol Lonodi", the "Gicrralo del Lunedi" has remained in the hands of
exclusiveLy Demochristian editors who belong to a vanguard of right-wing
youths forning at present th. majority of the provincial directorate ice
the Tries-Lu Domochristian party.
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It would take too long to go into the details of this change. 'ffe just ;
wish to cell attention to some phrases printed in the last edition a "Giornt-t- ?
dclLune7ii", whore the transfer of "Cittodelle" is sharply criticised by the
demechristi M. editors. They say: "If, as well as iLe .Voce Libero? and
*Lilt:41480.1-11ot our woolray were also to be .absorbed, the local Italian. news-
pope rs would then become a monopoly, and you -cannot pass ibly have a demo ei
pros1..lro th.oro is a nonopoly". .
? Of course there would only be on "editorial monopoly of the Irredent-
pre s s" since -there are tinny Italian papers which, faithful to domooxntio
principles, will never become the -mouthpieces of any group.
We arc surprised at the. naivet?f the se -editors, since the feet that
"Cittadella" changed its 0 Valor does not imply any substantial modification-.
4* of the entire. Irredentist press. . It is no secret, that the so-called demo-
cratic Irredentist Dress is under the aontrol of the Hon. Andreotti- and
his plenipotentiary Dr. D'Arcais, who is the chief-editor of the Rome branch
of "Giorxl,aie ai Trieste". The Demochristian youth still remebor that Ing.
Bortali and Dr.. Amedini, 'former editors of "Ultimissime", did not protest
when the lattor was replaced by "Ultimo Notizie". We do not -think that the
Do mochrist tan circles in Rome nd Trio ste oppo od RIM Ale OS s coino ,back.
The Demochrithtian youth should ?therefore first c:-,nsider the beam in
their awn aye before looking for the mote in that of others, as we are
advisod in the Gospel. .
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Artio?es_end reports:
-Nato en "orders" (editorial, illustrating .problem of _orders for the.
armai,iont program which have not yet matoria3ixed)
-Peace end- not. war ( e di to ria l) . ?
-Solation of :[..ronchrreisir.3. sp.eed,s up work for European Array - Within
fortnight "Conference - of. Six" to approve first draft of Continental
Community - Creation of a "political Eisenhower"- for new Atlantic.
or,gani;-:ation (Pa) -
-Subtle. s-?o-eoch by Churchill - He insists on US-Ore at Britain-!Europe -
Avoid third world war by creating intermtional-f ?roe with Germany's
participation (Fa)
? -New grouping within majority party - Around new DeMochristion review
a currant of the - center- tants to continue traditions of Italian Popular
Party (Fa)
-Agreement- between Catholics and Protestants in sight (Fa).
-"O sservat ore Romany". says: that Spellman did not mention "Clerk's case"
to Pope - Today Cardinal' will be Eisenhower' s guest (Fa) -
-French-Tunis controversy - Three dead and several injured in Bizerte
and ? Fe ryville 7 TtliaiS mixiis tars in Paris maintain legitimacy of appeal
to the UN .and accuse France of compromising relations between the two?
count ries (Fa)
-heasons for arrest of Egyptian policemen at Tel el Kebir unknown ?
Among them there are a. general, --SeiliOr officers, officers, and non .
commissi one d officers (Pa) )-
-British Consuls in Iron; :burn their archives (Pb)
-Port of Duke of Aosta paralyzed for three hours - City in state of
emoricency about collective poisoning - About 110 womon-workers of
Italian _Tobacco factory seized by mysterious sickness (La)
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LIUNITA - Milan (Trieste edition),Itallan Communist Party, Jan. 18th,1952
rticle s and roper ta:-
-General strike tomorrow and day after at .Sa Marco (La)
"IT rie :Aim Socialists :suoport our party in defence of workers,
property- (La)
? tuation at Workers' Cooneratnves Titoists -and Conessiorors have
ineetical viein (La)
(11:; hints to Lcegat - Do net destroy installations worth hundreds
on millions - Old route of trarn-line No. "1" should be restcred (La)
vinsuevry dieeri.TAnetion (editorial by Ernesto P.adich)
To the "Ciornalu dcl Ionedi" denoencement of the arbitrary policy
brut 1 Ly practiced by nMG, anrtinst persone of "definite Italian feelinp"
the "Unita" was right in reirerking that democracy is defended by uniting
in tee etrungle "e.-ininut t U politior.1 ti )ne" .')11nered by LinG" and.
not on y against those of personal concern.
Let us quote one recent exemple in order to show how bed.azzled. by
political hintr3d. are those circles of "pure Italian feelings" which hay?
proved that they are not intenested in the protection of democracy in
natters concerning our city. During November and December when LMG
aneouneed its intention to transform the "Tork Relief Division, the SU
strained all its efforts in vain to induce LNG to discuss the matter demecra,
ticelly vith the labour organizations. From beginninn to end, however,1,111G
negotiat:d exclusively with Cal which kept its participation a secret until
it publicly boasted of having succeeded, after lengthy discussions, in
amending the original project of the Governmemt.
The political discrimination dinected so for against our organization
has already made itself felt upon oeoplo "of definite Italian feelings".
inti-democracy is supported and introduced by .1.'airG in all labour fields?
and undisputed "Orders" are issued as they wore under the role of "believe"
obey, and fight". By ignoring SU and flattering CdL, conflicts between
thorn are encouraged by LMG in order to realize its objectives: Instead of
laughing %-fe invite you to reflect on the situation which LMG 15 creating
here.
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Voiees ere being raised in support of our -campaign to donandnthe
announcement of a date for the a clninistrative elections.
7:ite his usual jusuitic mentality, the Mayor announced tir t the City
rlouneil will diacues this ratter more exhaustively next time.
Mearrnhile ? the iv=enrupino Communal Council passed a decision in which,
it announces its resignation unless elections are held within six months.
.ntty. Steeca walked out of the Trieste City Council at its first meeting
antc_Ir the postponement of the eleetions. Thu Sporer-Giampiccoli groep took
the opportunity of the flag incident to walk: out. -?
L7.though the prolongation of the Councils' activity i absolutely
illegal" the communists renrin there because they do not want the Communes
to be adrrinistered by LMG coomissioners, or to be left to the mercy of a
oamorra installed there by 111G. The Communists are not aceustorned to
deserting their battle-fields. They know that theatrical displays are of
no avail, and that struggles arc not settled with one stroke.
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although the Tito-pendentist paper until a short tins ago considered
commissionor ships tho only solution, it now says that "it is not opportune
to talk of comnissionors% It nevor was s.dvisablo to talk of commissioners*
To domand elections and to strive for ttani is a right of the citizens who
will not bo decolved any moro, ane who increasingly realise the intention
to doprivo them ? avon of such rights as that of choosing their own communal
administrations*
"fl-iat the "Indepandontist" alpaca and Giampiccoll did is due to their
isolation, and to what they consider to bo a botrayal by LEG.
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GOSPORSTVO - Economic prop.TitoP ? January 13th, 1952
Yuooslavia do ad n
t exoloit Triesto as a marice.or hor books
Many economic measures in Yugoslavia aro aimed. at increasing oxports
but the _sale of books in Triesto has not yet bean taken into consideration*
Numerous cultural and political advantages rosult from a frequent exch.angre
of hooka and kapors, while a sparse exchango of them preatly reduces the
mural a.pport given to Yugoslavia by the many Slovonas and Croats living
abroa.d.
It is true, however, that local booksollers would hardly dare to
display -a Slovena;book in their windows since in the vory contro of
"democratic" Triosto any student, excited. by nationalist propaganda, could
smash the windows with impunity.
Importation of books is still controlled by AIM but this would not
hinder tho import: custom duties are not hid-i and should be abolished
according to the Peace Tr zty as they are liar books from Italy; finally
the recant monetary reform in Yugoslavia should favourably influence such
trader
LE ULTIME NOTIZIE - Domachristian Party
Lrticlos and ilejports:
January 18th? 1952
,-Next Sunday Italian Communist party will open campaign for forthcoming
elections. (Fa)
Do Nioola 'remains, it is. officially stated this morning (Fa)
-Washington's Lnglo-Amcrican agree= n ts London will recognize Chia
Kai-shok - Recognition limited to Formosa however Two ways open to
China - Japan will again he Big Power (Pa)
warn China - Should eventual truce be violated they have agreed
to bomb Chinese Continent - No progress at Panmunjom (Fa)
.44.9 cadets in danger on German training sailing Olin "Pamir" caught
by storm near Dutch coast (Fa)
-Earthquake at Sacile (near Udine) nobody hurt (Pb)
work at Tobacco Factory be resumed? - Communique by Committee of
In4uiry expected tonight - Results reported to Zone Presidency (La)
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pendentists, thesis) (La)
According to "Corriere di Trieste" Rome's financial help to Trieste is
more than compensated by the Rats cession of foreign exchange to the Italian
Government. Art* I of Annex III to the Financial Agreern nts of liarch 9th
19/4.8, on the oentrary, says that Italy undertakes to moot the requirements
for foreign exchange of the PTT at conditions similar to that in force in
Italy. Blacianail and counterpart are out of the question: Italy undertook
to supply not only the necessary lire to ewer the defieits but elso. the
necessary foreign exchangel In ott-Lr words Italy allows T-!:?iestels economy ?
to share her foreign exchange, and the amount at its disposal is determined
evex7 year in accordance with the reasonable demands made by MG, regardless
of thc foreign exchange Trieste earns locally and which must, df course,
'be oeded to the Italian Government. Just to give an example of the benefits
to r.t.'riesto of ouch agreement.% let "Corriere' consider for a moment how
-eould feel should menobody (if that has not yet been done) assure the
financing of its activity no nutter what the proceeds of the sale _mitt 'be*
Apart from this availability of Italian foreign exchange, -Trieste also
ehares in all trade and financial ageoements signed by Italy, particularly
the "cle.,:xirees" which. our Zone could not contract for owing to its size.
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PRIMORSKI DNB= , Slovene Coninnnist (Pre-.Tito), January 19th, 1952
Articles and reports:
.-Anglo-.American agreement on raw materials siglerl - Churchill's last ?
talk with, Truman in Washington, -. Churchill- agrees that American
Admina:be appointed Supreme Atlantq Naval Commander (Pa).
-:problem
?
-:problem of new UN menib?irs ;again' .on agenda - Peru delegation 'proposes..
$ that Security Council re-discuss applications on the ground that ? ,
applicants satisfy UN Charter (Fa) ,
...Situation in Tunisia more serious...- Mediation of Arab countries with .
President of UN Assembly'- New 'cla,shos and victims in .Tunis -. Communist
and Nationalist loaders confined (ii14) . . . . .. , ' ' -
...Rome pretends' to ignore ttio fact that Pula (Pola) and Roka (Fiume)
are in Yugoslavia (pa) . . _... , . .
-Do Nicola again Pnosident of the donate (Fa) , ?
.490 billion you for Japanese rearmament - 15 divisions, 1,000 air-
planes and 100,000 tons of ships within throe years - Nationalist
China rody for peace negotiations With. Japan (Fa) .
-Our example (editorial, expressing satisfaction about cultural
competition between ' loc al Italians and Slovenes in theatrical field) ?
-"Trieste mia" no longer featured (editorial .notel expressing hope ?
that NO. will never again allow publio show. of film which so .grossly
hurts t [c feelings of the entire Trio stine population) .
-Coml.& ornis ts approve Irredentist provocations., To Cominformist
Councillors oil-pump in front of Dock Workers Home is more important
than question of validity of peace treaty with Italy "La
-.Trade botvreon Istria, Tricsto, and foreign ,countries La . . .?
...New OF (Freedom Front) Committee for Zgoni% (Sgenico) camiam0 which
must solve problems affecting the entiro commune (La)
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This Bulletin consists of tran:31ati ono of headlinos and sanmaries of
articles and news re?orts Of interest to AID, selected
from the local and, occasionally., for.rign press e Text in brackets and
preceded by the sign + consists of oxplanations by the editor of this
Foreign news is morkod ?"2", local "Ti" if featured it is in
addition marked, "a"r if of suoonelery "b"t. ;ill translations
are summarized, unaubs otherwise rtz,..ted.
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GIDalLE DI TRIESTE - Pro-Italy, non-party daily, January 19th, 1952
Articles and re ports:
-Chine so Q nignn (editorial.)
s farewell, visit to Truman Agroemont on Naval Command
cone ludo s talks at Thitc House Brit ish Premier ceded to Amori a-Ans
high comand in Atlantic Pact - First US iaid iii war materials to
London - No break of diplomatic relations fore scen between Great
Britain and Mao Tse-tung (Fa)
-apposition :leaders arrestedMea arcs adoited by french
Residet - about incidents has fabilitatea ak-weer,:en on Faure
investiture (Fa)
-Sta to of ern rgency proclaimed in Errypt. - Measure dictated by need to
5t o) disturb once s by"t errorists"in capital . (Pa)
-Problem of Scrlate'a Presidency settled - De Nicola withdraws his
re sigm tion once more - Deficit for 1952-53 estimated at about
/00 billion lire (Pa)
-Senators ( I ta lian) tackJ.c law against re o-FasCiSia (Pa)
-After request for Alne7.'ican intervention in Egypt London tries to
nvod ratcp reaction to Churchill's speech Cautious -interpretations
by Voreip. Office Nnd theTimes" of commitments anneunced :by-Premier
for Par East (Fa)
.,-Unekeected decl.si on by Allied. Coral-x...1nd Thousands of prisoners to be
released in Kona (Pa).
Carney -insPects. "Ariete' units Manoeuvres attended by
Atlantic Commander (Fa).
-Exports to the US - s protest to p.t.t,J Dapartment on recent
restrictions (Ft))
-.0..-.nost 500 houses collapsed in Po area owing to needs (Fb)
-.Halberd .flag symbol - of Italian Trieste Messages of support to
11,:.,yor on his firm 'stand
-The ?hut in the Palace (editorial note, complaining- about the 'Works
being carried out at the Palace of justice for the Police Offices)
-Big inVostigaticin by Inquiry Commission. at Tobacbc.)?FaCtory - Reasons
for poisoning still -unknown? Presence. of Cyanide gas ekcluded -
Icrk will b raduliy rosumed_under sanitary control of promises -
Only four women. still in hospital .(La)
-T.VS "Enotria"? leave s on her maiden voyage ? New Motor-ship joins
"Esperia" on Egypt route (La)
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The "economic -notentL,11 of the 17.12" IVIagican's wand for Trieste waved in
sence of 115 -persons Lar
Referring to the lecture on "the economic potential of the ITT", given
yesterday by Mr. Bruno Come, editor of the "Corriere di Trieste", the
"Caornale"prints a len- -Wiy report, fu21 of ironical observations, which can
be s Lirara ad up as follows:
Mr. Bruno Genie, in hi s attempt to Unina sic the weakness of the Irredenti-
ebonomic propaganda, was compelled to US e pill() very st ange economic theories
and to adapt them in quite an original manner. He stated that the geonomic
se lf -suffici enoy of Trieste was already proved and that Trie ate s final
recovery could only be accomplished by its complete detachment from Italian
national capitalism. As to Triestine industry, he stated that it must be
freed from the "sabotage" of Italian competitors.
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After mentioning the usefulness of the Allies" presence in Trieste '-
considering that the British and American troops -epond their money here
Th. Corm affeireed thet the cause of tai our troubles originated from the -
economic e.grooment concluded beteecn leIG and the' Italian Goverri:ent in
1948,0 which "will not allow us to .buy and sell abroad., to create our own
bank, or to build industries competing with tilos? in Italy".
But Mr. Cerne's most ingenious theory is with regard to labour -
problems* He stated that the "economic potential of a region is in direct
proportion with the Will to worb, of its inhabitants". In this simple
manner Mr, Corm attempts to solve the problem of 17,673 unemployed in
Trieste*
During the ensuing discussion a vary clever labourer explained the
reasons why "we cannot trust Italy", and. the Director of the Indepondentist
daily, sitting with. Councillors Dekleva and Giampiccoli, stressed the neecl
"to act politically since the Italian Government ia doing its utmost to
suffocate'Trieste", The latter asked. for some explanations on the alleged
underhand practices at the Zaule Industrial Port Authority and the Center
for Trieste's Economic Development* With perfoot coolness, Mr0 Corm)
replied that there is not sufficient proof to condemn the managers of the
above-Triontioned coneerns. The famous economist doncludod his lecture by
affirming that he will .continue to insist on the establishment of a customs
barrier at Duinoo
"Trieste miefilth Withdrawn Is this duo: Titoist pressure? (Lb)
For throe days the picturci "Trieste ride, was shown in the cinema
"Alabarda." and. was such a soccees? ?thet the cinema was always overcrowded*
This picture has: gerrally been more ,criticized. than praised., but ,owing to
the sudden death of the actor Randi it; had a particular attraction. There
were no outstanding incidents although this picture touches on some
sensitive point's, such es the role of the Slovene partisans during the
struggle of the Italian martyrs in our region.
The indopendentist mouthpiece, followed by the Slovene daily staged
a campaign againSt this 'picture, asking AMG to have it suppressed since
it "slighted a Slovene partisan" and ?threatc:)nee: "the a.ppeaeoment between
the two rations", Yeeterday afternoon AMG suddenly ordered the suspension
of this picture, ,Wittadrawing the permit for Trieste, Apart from other
considerations; we would_ like to .keeet whether there is any connection betwoen
the Ti taint preSs campaign, and AV s =dor.
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IL CORRILIZE DI TRIESTE - Left-wing, pro-FTT January 19th, 1952
Artic1ei
...Important police measuree taken by French authorities - Revolt
spreads in Tunisia - Strike follows az-rest of opposition leaders -
One dead and three injured in clashes - Chiefs. of Arab delegations
to the UN meet Padillo Norvo (Fa)
I-Ono of the fundamental causes in Egypt-Groat Britain conflict
Control of Nile main political argument in Sudan (Fa)
oru dceettedel, ;Itly.' s a.dmiesion New procedure S upportori" by Latin-
Amoriee coneisees has fovi chences of outflanking Soviet opposition (Pa)
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-Drama of France and of the World. from 1933 to 1945 - Change of French
Cabinets on tragic eve of Munich - lanschluss - When Hitler's troops
entered Vienna, Paris was agiot ted by artificial Government crisis -
How Blum' s elans to safeguard Czechoslovakia's independence were upset
by Daindier (4th of series, by M. (hrrillo)
usual: Nothing- new at Panmunjom (Fb)
-Departure of WS "Lueustus" postponed - Strike at San Marco temporarily
sus Pe need - Mooting at Lab our Office this morning (La)
-Split in Trieste Post-senatorial Lssociation must be avoided - Intbrests
of former tuberoular patients dismissed from hospital most be safe-
guarded (La)
-"Trieste LILO' withd_ravai (editorial note, expressin.,g the hope that the
authorities will ba more careful in future s.,nd. that an official communique
giving the reasons for the withdrawal bo issued in order to avoid mis-
understandings)
Discords in the Italo-Yusroslav politiCaI concert .- Racial discrimination
again - Conditions on which -axi tuiderstanding. cot-ad-be reached' Problem
of Trieste ? set aside (?-a) ?
Belgrade, 18th Recently the fanrJus Italian quartet-was due to hold
a concert in Belgrade but as one of the. merit ort 'Was unwell the concert has
not yet taken place. Instead another con.cort on I-tele-Yugoslav relations
and on the national minorities in Italy is being played. Both countries
agree that mutual relations arc not good, however, they -could:easily be.
-improved since the obstacle Which Italy put forward. stating that she has
already made enough sacrifices has rio foundationi, In fact she has
lost nothing which was really hers, while ',recent maps _publithed.. in Italy .
showing the. Italian Eastern frontier along. the Postumia? and. the Quarter .
are based 6/1..1940; Yugoslavia . de stand's same sacrifices from -Italy and is
willing to make them in her torn. Tito stated,. some mon.ths ago that the
problem of the Yugoslav minorities in Italy it again urgent while that
of Trieste was. once more -oostpOned.? ?
The problem of the .minorities is, without .doubt,- a. difficult one but
it could be solved if instead of publishing 'articles, criticising each ?
other and influencing public. _opinion which is always ready to b?oved over
the fate of its fellow-citizens _ablead, more cultura and sports events were
to be exchanged. . Mr. V;lcbit departed for Rome in order to roach economic
agreements.- katually about thirty agreements have already been settled and
it is hoped that this will help to relax the tenslon.
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The -nort of Trieste and Russia's satellIt22 (editorial).
The present political situation compelling Trieste's hinterland to
cenfane its trade predominantly to the Soviet Union is the main obstacle
standing in the way of Trieste' s economic recovery. Venice, Fiume, and -
the hastern Adriatic ports, labour under the same handicap, and. even
Hamburg has to struggle against difficulties of a similar kind as the
enormous decrease of its HunprLan traffic - 100-200 thousand tons a month
before the war and a miserable few hundred tons now - clearly shows. Hamburg's
traffic relatims vtith Czechoslovakia were not quite se much disturbed,as
the effect of the 5 year commercial treaty recently ConClUded by her with
the soviet Union,has not yet -ssade itself felt. Under this treaty, Czecho-
slovakia is. to import from Russia about twenty million tons of goods, mostly
raw nnterialo, for which she will pay with her own manufactured articles.
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Czechoslovakia's ovorsoas exports via Hamburg during the past year
amounted to roughly 600.-700 thousand tons, besides other considorablo
shipmonts made by her via Triusto and thu other Adriatic ports.
It must be noted in this connection that Czochoslovald.an goods pay
particularly high freight ratos so that, evon a partial loss of this trado
is more sharply felt than the enliinutior of any.other trr.,.ffic4 All the
othcr Russian satellite states ore in a similar position, as they too
aro obliged to give Russia largo proforenoo in all their sales and?purchasos.
'Their trado with 17ustorn Europo? tho US, the Middle East and Africa is
dwind.ling. A good example of this artificial diVorsion of traffic is the
recently concluded Chinoso-Czechosiovakinn trade agroorrent; all the traffic
from this is sent by.the usual Russian-Chinese trade routos,avoiding
Trioste and the Baltic ports with comploto disrogard for economic convoniotice?
Czechoslovakia's rail communications wore built at thu time (;,:cf the Austrian
Empire of which Trioato was thu only port of international importance and
tho.7 wore so constrUctod as to reduce both the cost and duration of
? transport to a minimum.
On the other hand a substantial increase of ll2 is recorded in
Czechoslovakia's trade with Eastern Germany, for the first nine months
of the past year as against the samo period of 1950.. A large proportion
of the East German output of heavy machinery, fortislisors etc., is absorbed
by Czechoslovakia which in compensation, exports to East Germany colej,
metals, and other. industrial products. A commoraial agruorrent botwoon the
two states signed in the- first half of last Docombor providos for the
exchano of East G-orman mining machinory (an article of which Czcchoslovakia
stands in groat need)'? optical and onginooring instruments against Czecho-
slovakian rubber good.s, principally tires.
In. the prevailing aircurnstances Triostola hinterland is practically
confined to Austria and a part of, YugosikAvia, although soMo of the Amwican
shipments directed to the north-oastorn Yugoslav proVincos may tako the
route of Trio stc. Thu present situation clearly illustrates the vast
extont tbvihich Trio sto's pert ?aptivity is affected by political ideologies.
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Conferonce on PTV s economy by Bruno Corm (La
The problem of Triostots economic survival was expounded yesterday
by our editor on ocionomics Mr. Bruno Corn?.
After mentioning thu psychological causes of the Irrodontist campaign
against.tho FIT and its oconomic self-sufficiency, the lecturer analysed
the positive arid negativo aspects of. our economy. Mr. Coma pointed out
that under the pressure of the Italian Govornment's financial and. customs
control, resulting from the detrimental agreements of March 9th 1948, our
industry-is condomnod to a secondary role, with no opportunity for final
recovery. The only way out of this dead-lock is to free our oconomy
from the yoke of the Italian bureaucracy, to find other outlets and
markets, and to re-establish Triesto's traditional role in the European
and. international trade.
Mr. Como outlined the main aspects of the sabotage by Italian
bureaucracy and capitalists against the free devolopmnt of our traffic
with the hinterland countries, aria laid particular stress on the restrictive
clauses, imposod by the Italian Govornmunt, of our trade agreement with
Czochoslovakia.
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Speaking about the question of our merchant..marine, .he stressed ths
nogative..pelicy of Rome and. enumerated the inconveniences resulting from
the lack Of an adequate number of ships registered in our port. ?
He concluded his lecture by inviting all these present to do their
best to support the revival of our city and its future indeperldent
life.
it the conclusion of the conference, the audience loudly applauded
Mr. ?Cerne for his clever and. objective lecture. ? ?
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LESSAGGERO VieNETO - Udine (Trieste ed.i ti. on) Jan.1 9th, 1952
Lrticle s and reports:
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-Isla and Italy (editozial)
-eng.10-.iimericen Conference conclude - Greeter mutual collaboration but
-various points of contrast - Notwithstanding Loudon's opposition Supreme
I:Al:Int:to Navel Coriander will .be Lmerican - Disappointment about lack
of agreement on closer British participation in European unification (Fa)
ranch rosi t ion s in. Indochina strong - Infiltra ti ens by 'Vietminh elements
do not worry Hamel. Coureand, (Fa)
-Cairo's 'reply. to Ibn Saud offer for mediation brings no change - Protee
to General Erskine on detention of EaPtian prisoners - Methodist parson
et-backed at Port Said (Fa)
-Activity at Palais Chaillot RLISSia will probably veto Libya's admittance
to the UN - This was stated by Syrian delegate after talks with Soviet
delegates (Fa)
-Spollmen received. by Eisenhower (Fa)
-Earthquake, snow, and floods or western hemisphere - Twe thousand
Californian farailie s compelled to evacuate owing to hurricane (Fa)
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Radio sensibilitv (editorialnote)
The day llefore. yesterday., between 10 J.M. and, 1- BM, Trieste was in a state of
greet excitement. iimbulancea of the itaIiele. American, and British Red Cross,
the Fire IA?'igade, and. private cars..rushed .through the city with howling
sirens making a deafening din. The people ireagined the most tragic and
incredible news about exploded boilers, -escape of gas, etc., with scores of
irejuee:i'd and dead.. The news. quickly reached every house spreading alarm and
anxiety. ?
'Then at ii L.M. Radio Trieste went on the air, everybody expected some
explanation. Imperturbably, the radio stetion followed its regular program
with such a. serene and calmness that many listeners thought they were
not listening to Radio Trieste). Liter three hours of waiting, an announcement
was eiade about. an accident at the "Tebateco Factory which had had no serious
consequences, The tranquillity which finally returned to the city could have
been restered three hours earlier had. soieebod,y at the Radio Station realized
the necessity of relieving the public anxiety. -
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- Milan (Trieste edition), Ital.Communist Party, Jan.1 9th, 1 952
Articles and re_
ports:
-Zama ry 31 st ( editorial, referring to term for pre canting income-
tax declaration which should be postponed)
-Uhl) e ea 1 e wrking conditions at Italian Tobacco Factory - Outcome
of inquiry awaited (1..n)
-Postponed departure of WS "Augustus",workers suspend strike - Further
developments connected with outcome of today's meeting with CRDA at
Labour Offi(xi (La)
-Protected by Potrilli former "federale" (+ Fascist secretary) Giovanni
Rein returns as inspector of Sick Insurance Dffice in Trieste (La)
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"Trieste min" --datum withdrawn (editorial note)
? ? The "Trieste mica" film ha a been vti.thdrawn by an .AMG order, ovidently
because Of an increasing public .dislike for chauviniam.-
.Some. movie. stars have not as yet grasped- the fact that when performing
or actinE they assutho 4 certain'.responsibility towards the spoptcrtor; the
same 1.1.nd of ropponsibilit,y, a journalist has when writing an article -
perhaps :.:an oven a greater one.. It often happens that the less gifted cinema
stars and producere make pi'qt ure s who re thosa chali ties are badly ? needed.
,Such is ;the oaso o f "T rio st e MIA ",. ?T he b 3d tis a nd ? ignorance wi t h 7thich
.'" this picture, shoWing Trieste in -the years 490-45, has boon 'undo, 'are.
si ply bncrodlblc, The most 0 'tat (la t et contionralce, S of -ohs lxv i ni sm. .and
sentimentalism are lavisho.t OA tin
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Moreover, to put it bluntly, tisis picture is racial ono, Thera aro
only two Slovene characters, Karl, and his lady friend who does
t count. The former is represent; d as wicked, false, and cruel.
Mario Costa seems to have followed the example of Veit Harlan, whose
picture "The Jew Suess" is 'N;Veri. l'0171C rabcrod.
LA PRORA Demochristian Party, weekly January 18th, 1 952
Velebit And ktal.,,y
In a statement to the , press, maTh. be fere. his ? departure from Belgrade
? Mr. Vclobit said that it was his (and we presume also his Govermnutls)
intention to "settle all pending accounts with Italy". Undoubtedly the
most vital of these is the FITT problo m and therefore we desire that the
Yugoslav delegate sh-)uld entert,.tin no illusion or mistaken idea about it,
He should have a clear vision c)f. the huge moral and financial sacrifices
? which It xlj has made already, ha should .think of the many farailies separated,
all the lives destroyed an the cruel rufferings inflicted on the people of
Zone B, while those in Zone A are still c,..trapelled to .live under a military
'? administration and to remain.ign.orant, so many years after the war, of their
final destiny. ..?
The vastness of the Itasn sacrifices has been 'Imre than once recognised
by the Allied .powers, particeaarly by the tripartite declaration of March
20th 1 943. Despite the polemics which arose about this declaration through
the far.3t that it cannot become operative without Russian assent, it remains
a document of first rate importance and no "settlement" deservingithis no=
? .
can afford, to disregard it.
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With what intentions exactly does Velebit come to us? Whatever they .
ere, he must be mindful that Italy is no longer the defeated country she
was, forced to make the best of any bed largein, but a =oh needed, right-
ful member of the Atlantic pact and. playing a leading role .in the. attempt
to unify this continent. By contrast, YUgoslavia's position shighly
confused and uncertain. Unable to exist without focrerign economic and
military help, she w oul d find herself in the most terrible plight if
Italy, whose military potential and. strategic importance are rapidly
La-owing, decided not to budge in the event of a Russian attack on Yugo-
slav territory. ?? Besides, Yugoslavia's economy is hit by a crisis of un-
precedented magniturie. - ?
It is from the angle of Italy's fundamentally changed international
Position that tho. problem of FIT must be envisaged. I.taly has a right to
expect that the Allied rowers will use their influence in Belgrade. To
Italy the issue is one of vital, moral and rational significance, whereas. .
to Yugoslavia it means only the renunciation of unreal dreams.of dernimtion
devoid of all inoml and juridical justification.
Italy's claim, made by her as an ally, holds good in either case,
whether Yugoslavia is regarded a5 adhering to the Atlantic pact or not.
If Yugoslevia is considered as a member of the pact, our claim is justified
by reesore of' dignity artl justice And as a-necessary prek3ondition to.
fruitful cooperation. If, howeV6r,' her role is that of a mere sphere of
influence serving, the political and military needs of. the West, it would bo.
unfair and _absurd to saddle one 41,1lied -Country with the entire cost. From
whichever viewpoint the matter is Considered, e .solutieln :in accordance with
the sacred rights of Italy is. imperetive whatever Mr. Velebit may .think or
says
Italian law must be applied to the elections
At the last meeting of the Communal. council the communists demanded
with their usual vehemence the prompt holding .of elections, lavishing
insults on the majority ,parties. A few well-chosen and determined words
by the mayor repulsed the attack and restored calm.. ?.
We
on our part have never ceased to .stress- the necessity for, applying
to the elections in this territory the law by which this matter is regulated'
in Italy and to -point out the serious gaps and deficiencies of' OrderNo.33 .
of February 21th 194.9 by which, with arbitrary modifications, this law was
exteleded to the FriT. We also repeatedly criticised the electoral system
originally introduced in Italy which in our view failed to provide one very
important requisite to any efficient administration; the stability of the
administrative body elected.
The-present democratic majority has not the slightest reason to fear e
the coming- elections, hence arv interpretation given to its wish for the
extension Of the Italian electoral law to this zone would-be completely
mistaken. Only totalitarian parties such as the ? communists have cause to
dread the .polls.- , -
We have on various occasions expressed our conviction that the extension
en bloc .to.the FTT of Italian legislation is not an act of courtesy or -
generosity on the Dart of AMG but the fulfilment of an incontestable jur4.4i cal
obligation. Order 38 of February 20th 1951 only perpetuates the mistake_ -
contained in the .erevieus order 33 and is completely inadequate to the .present
political and social cenditions in this zone. In Italy, following the law .
No. 34 of .February 21st 1951, the presidential decree No. 703 of April 5th
1951 was issued conteining,. the unified norms for the eleotion of communal
administretions, and coordinating harmoniously the rulings of the law-decree
No, 1 of 3.-ar4try'1st 1946 with. the more recent law No. 84 of February 1951.
Theee..unified. norms must in their totality b applied to the elections in
Trieste. ?
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Conmuni st propaganda clamorously denounces them as "hurabug". In realit,
they are not only strictly democratic in that they enable every citizen to
cast its vote according to his political conviction but also offer the
groat advsntage of enabling, the formation of a strong, sure, and stable
majority fit to be charged with the conduct of nablic affairs.
The FIT 3 S:7,0 rtOrS plaz_with billions Some observations on Zone's
budget and miracle-making ability of Independentist wiseacres
The main goal of the Indepenr3entists' polemical technique is to prove
that Zone of the FTU has a balanced budget. To succeed in this aim the
wiseacres of the Contrada del Corso (the HQ of the Indepondentist Movement)
are not particular about their- methods: from changing the figure s, meddling,
with the various items, to creating a confusion between expenditures and
receipts, just to satisfy the stupidity of certain short-sighted persons
who believe that Rome and Italy are the greatest horrors in the Universe.
.A balanced state bl..tdget, is a vital basis of this nonsensical political
party which wants to e ?ate a new Triestine nation. In order to become a
nation, Trieste should, at:I:et:xi:ling to these notifm-builders, get rid of
Italy and her economic aids. They completely overlook the fact that Yugo-
slavia, although having a thoroughly balanced budget, is actually compelled
to beg for I ariP mt aid fro al th0 7-0 stern POtlOrS in order to come out from
her economic ciisis.
.4,balanced budget estimate is -only an addition of various figures and
it does not express the real ecinom:,,c (And social situation of a nation or
zone. The clean ate which sh:w the reality of stich a situation are:. consumption,
export, technical ability, accumulation cf capitals, managerial
re serves of raw materials and manufactured goods, geographicposit ion, own
currenT area and so forth. Many of these elements do not appear in a state
budget, but they are very important.
.4 few days ago the "Corriere di Trieste" assorted that Italian industry
makes a very good profit on goods in Trieste, and therefore the famous 10
billions re-oresont onl,y a counterpart item. Leaving thia vs) stiomble
matter, we would point out that, on the other hand, Trieste exports to Italy
a considerable quantity of coffee, rcocoa,'spices wood, oil, cigarette
? paper, beer, liquor and so forth.. t the same time it receives all rnw
material .through s clearing componsati ens. ?
Instead of making, thoir dubious investigations on single items of
Trieste 's budget, the wiseacres of the Con trade del Coro should examine
the entire system of payments, the port compensintions with CZeoboawakia,
Italy' s a0tion to counter the C01111)CItiton by'horthorn ports, Austria's
overseas ox-ports, ort s and the index p2 the Y ago a lax and. Hunip rian foreign trade.
They should ask themselves the reasons for the Yugoslav, Austrian,?
NungarirAny OzochosloVakian 'etc. , lack of concern ,for the Zaule Industrial
Zone, the investments in which are opened to all countries.
reply to these questions will be never given by the Independentists
because it would be ,.couelotely contrary to their anti-Italian propaganda.
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&fa= of re s id nt 1 repulations needed (by PQ r0 Rinaldini)
Recentay "Ultimg Notizie" printed an incorrect answer to a reader whe
asked for information about the pOssibility of being registered as a
permanent resident of the Trieste Commune. Since the regulations seem to
be frequently misiiiterpreted, this is a good opportunity to clarify them
particularly as .A.MG'?has issued various Orders in this mr.tt ter which have
created a certain amount of confusion in th pu1Uo. X444
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According to Art. 16 of the Ceinstitution of the Italian Republic, a
citizen may reside wherever he desires in the Italian territory. There
arc still some deubts, however, as to whether the law of -July 1939, No.
1092,against the overcrowding of towns is still valid. In my opinion it
should not be voJid. -
The most outstanding fact, however, is that by its Order No.64,
issued some regulations restricting the registration of pernenent residents
in the cols :Imes ef our zone without making any sta terse nt regarding the
general regulations contained in the various laws ruling that matter.
lifter many protests, Orders No. 222 and 156 were issued, which showed a
better underStanding of the position of those who ?sad not be deprived of
the right to re gist or a s permanent residents.
lifter May 31st, 1951, it was no longer possible for temporary residents
t be registered as permanent residents unless they belonged to one of the
fallowing categories; a) children of residents; l's) wives, of residents;
c) orphansewhosc guardians are -residents; cl.) widows and legally separated
wives whose :perents were nsidents on June 10th1 1940; e) Italian citizens
resident in our zone on June 10th, 1940; f) Italian citizens born in our
Z 01-1C permeeent officials of public e dmini s't rations transferred to our
zone.
AIM Orders never stated whether the previous regulations of 1 929 and
1 939 were cancelled or only suspended bY the new provisions. The 00111T111110
and the Prefecture held that they were only suspended..
Does this present state of affairs f..1,00 with general principles of
law end justice? We feel it does not.
ea'r seems to have had two motives in issuing these restrictive regu-
lations. Firstly, the intention was to avoid increasing the population
of Trieste .d taring the trusteeship administration of this zone; secondly,
to safeguard the local labour market. ?
esperiende has: showe that these regulations failed to reach them aims
and hey only created confusion and discontent, with the exception of those
employers who benefited from the regulations in farce by illegally employ-
ing nen-resident workers et lower wages. Thus many persons duly registered
as permenent resiaents and vho could be employed, burlen our public finance
or the ERP funds instead of contributing to our prosperity.
The present regulations should therefore be modified particularly as
-the reeir.,..tr,y office will be compelled to revise the present data in con-
formity with the census results.
Two considaretions should be taken into account; Firstly the final
settlement of controversial cases of the past, according to the census
returns,by the tacit acmptanco of declarations of pernanrnt residence;
secendly the norms for -Lae future provided for by Regulation No. 2132 of
Dec. 2nd,1929.
LD-cp
IL PROGRESSO - Pro-Tito, ?Neekly, Januar/ 19th,1952
Trieste end. the iiISA aid_s
Last week the local Demochristiens felt obliged to call M.'s attention
to the foot that Mutual Security Agency's aids to the FTT should be supplied
through Rome only.
After all kinds of scandalous embezzlements by the Italian bourgeoisie
of ERP funds, causing the Americans to declare that they will not pay another
cent if the Italians arc not willing to shoulder at less.t part of the general
burden in the interest of peace, the local agents of the Italian bourgeoisie
have the ispudence to demand further allocations.
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The Trio st Ines arc the first to claim that the aids for the Anglo-
American zone of the FIT should be allocated to Trieste itself and not
to Roma. They hove stripped us of half a million tons of shipping and
of the big insurance companies, Lre they not yet satisfied?
We rflust not forget that to each ship built in Trieste, EP contributed
a third of the total exuenditure. Italy h-d, the ships built in Trieste
with our money and then sailed thorn away to Italy. They du not even allow
them to call at Trieste,
If they, contrived all that with our MP funds separated from those of
Rome, Lhen imagine what they would do if both funds were united. In that
case Zeno B could also be conveniently ox.,ploited.
? It would be the first time in hintcaythab a crooked administrator,
after defrauding those under his oaro,would be raiNtlac.d by an increase
of capitol, That is the case of the Italian bourgeoisie, which has
squandered the funds entrustc.d to thorn. This has been openly acknowledged
by the chief of the ECA mission in Rome.
Hence the necessity for the continued separation of the Triestine and
the Italian =, funds. If itnly carmot be prevented from squandering her
ERP funds, then at least give Trieste an opportunity conscientiously to
administer the aid funds allocated to her,
To this end n commisslon of genuine Triestines should bo appointed.
people who really have the prosperity of Trieste at heart and can be
expected to administer these funds adequately. in. should then listen to
thelr advi co.
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LE ULTI1F NOTIZIE - Demochristian Party, January 19th, 1952
Articles and relorts: -
-Three intorpellations in Italian parliament demanding investigation
of the "Egidi -case" vtich raises gave qaestions about scope and.
limits of -police power - Police may nonduct invostigations on their
own account -(Fa)
-Now it's Tunis' turn - Arrests of flat:Um-list and extremist leaders
may set Tunis afire, not Tavy,iously involved in unrest of Arab world.
(Fa)
--Unconfirmed runyurs of Stalin's death in New York's, Blaming papers .(Fa)
-Uncxpooted events expected in Korea n.Ridgway confers secretly
with UN truce ?omission - Allies reported ready to yield on all
points but communist frustration of no may mean war against
China (Fn)
-Italian budget will conclude with 3-400 billion deficit (Fa)
-Vishinski again presents his "peace. plan" at today's UN meeting (Fa)
-Y-ounEest French premier begins task of forming cabinet (Fe) -
-Hungarian government rejects Yugoslav note in contest about Mur-
island (Pb)
-No solution of CZDA workk.rs .dispute in sight at .1 P.M. (Lb)
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Articles and xnports:
-Lenin and Soviets (: r. els reprinting lecture by Corrado
B. Erak on 28th.anniversary of Lunin'S death) ?
-Truman submits budget estimates for next financial year ,--Highest
peace-time budget r- Three fourths of expenditure for defense -
Deficit will proba-bly be covc.red by increasing public debt since
Congress opposes noW faxation (Fa)
!-Throo dead and 20 injured in Tunisia - Aspirations of Tunisia's
? population exploited by Russia for her own rrops,ganda pUrposes :-
Faure will present new C,overnment to National Assembly today -
Four questiono. in col-motion with Tunisia problem - EgyPtian
Foraign Minister postpones departure from Paris in. order to attend
discussion on situation in North ?Africa at the UN (Fa)
-Opposition to Britons in. Canal Zone increases - Violent 'clashes at
Isaeilia whore British scddiers searched. houses Anti-British'
- demonstrations in Cairo and Alexandria-(Fa) ,
-Russia sabotaged discussion on Austria - Russian delegate did not
attend today's conference of Substitutes for Austria - belaying
tactics by Russia and linking of Austrian problem. to that of Trieste
(pa)
-qorban condemns film "Tristo mist' (Fa),
-Italian budget deficit estimated at 428 billion lire (Pb)
.-Group of British Labgritcs (extreme left-wing) demands annulment of
peace treaty with japan (Pb) .
-Dr.' Jbo ViiSan in Trieste ,on his way to India (Pb)
-Only unity can ensure attainnent of our rights - Dolina ? (S.Dorligo
della Valle) appoints new Central Committee of Freedom Front of 32
members which Will. settle all politica] cultural., and economic
? problems (Lu).
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This Bulletin consists of translations of headlines and swanaries of
editorials, articles and news reports of interest to AL, selected
from the local end, occasionally, foreign press. Text in brackets and
preceded by the sip, + consists of explanations by the editor of this
Foreigi news is marked '111", local "L", if featured it is in
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-lnd of strike at shisyards 4- Partial strike could not prevent
sonartsfe "!iugustus" (La)
-Irsparat'ons for March 3th ('Iomen's Day) (La)
-ore ,JoLsoning at Tobacco "actory wacksrs again in hospital -
Ilia Gornisalon now insuirs more thoroughly into causes of poisoning/
orig.3r01 :s.J1;ation recsived by Mayor (La)
-irofossiaml classes at Dolina (S. Dorligo 114, Valle) and Sy. Kril
(Ssnta (roce) nsud work-shops (Lb)
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The Mr.:.vor jurit;.fi 1 hielf (editorial 110.0)
%,e4d.???by
Our ilayor Barton has felt the need to .explain his recent statements
troc.s.rt the Trieste flog. He said that, as a matter .of fact, ,he did take
the oath, although 1:ipparentl7 not iiy-the sense that others supposed.
Since Italy is foremost in his thoughts?it is natural, according to his '-
ionic, Vivi:: he took the oath for Italy .4.. especially sines the FT does not
oven exist.
His explanlAions are foended on a weak basis. Noisritbst*Wding
Cammaratais legal philosophy asd Bartolils pious wishes, the PTT is a
reality end it is high time for AMG to teach Barton his duty as a sworn-
in mayor. and not ailow anyone to violate its Orders with impunity.
C=FUMI:J:E DI Ti-f.DSTE - Pro-Italy, non-party daily, January 22nd, 1952
illsticies and roots:
-;Zestorday's meotin,,,4 of Italian Cabimt - New budget aims at caufbating
snomplo-yLcut -.,601000 -.,vorkers will be employed in Italian shipyards -
JAggost ii_ipsort wild berV0 to building of popular houses - Long
tor, :,i)r,-J,f:..ram for l'ovetopmont of aglculturo Credits to medium and
smaj_lL isd.ustric.)s Fisancing of new naval constructions - 250 billions
for ext oo inar: ads of Italy's defence - A temporary contribution
to be made by private sntorpris C (Fa)
-tibcP:indj.t!,?ros. amount to 85 billion dollars, roceipts to 71'billions -
That is new "gooss" Ai urban budo:ot which will be sharply- opposed by
Congress - President Ciecides to opposo global cuts in foreign aid (Pa)
-Austrian Poace Treaty again. postponsa - After Allies' refusal to
link this question with that of TricSte, Russia tries to gain time
(Fa)
.-11Oiree dead and twonty injured in a Tunis -village - Timis Ministers
send a protest telegram to UN (Fa)
-British public cpinion deilands more energetic action in Egypt, (Fa)
-Korean nog ?tic. tions dead-looked - Communists aigtin ref use compromise
(Fa)
-Now :,1'ronch Government facing Tunis question - Edgar Faure between
two fires - Loft-wing parties demand appeaserront? while those of the
right demand strong action - Government's fate depends on Socialists
(pa)
Consulates in Persia closed (A)
-Now cases of poisoning at Tobacco :Factory - Many questions Isr-+- no
replies -4 19 more women affected - Quality of tobacco and defective
air-
conditioning probable causes of incident - Efficient aid by Italian
Med Cross - All patients released, from hospital (La)
-.for ssnouncoLont of general.strikc, agitation at San Marco ship-
yard txdpcxurily swlon&d (La)
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a'alLis in an intervicav_lia .Belgrade-ex resses disappointrlent..r-All his hopes
are pinned on Independentism editoria7
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Branko Babic, the well-krimm champion of appeasement- and brotherhood,
has confided to an editor of the "1.:el&ade weekly "Settimana. d'Informazione",
his hopes and aisQ.ppointincrut with Just touch of optimism here and thore.
Jftor the usual attack against "comiteormist trochory" he assured
his Titoist conn.v..de that the party has redeployed to strong positions,
meaning probably. those in Santa Croce or Bagnoli. - Ho further roiarIzd that
every day he receives visits from workers who desire to visit Yugoslavia
(obviously in order to Study the conditions of life therei. but have we not
sufficient reports from the many refugees who constantly escape across the
border?) -
His statement "We are against the annexation of Trio-sto by Italy".
has the true ring of a credo and -he -added that his party coeporates 'with
"all the independentists, both with 6tocca'a group and the Sperer -wine*
Yet whenever we 'stated this fact ourselves, we Were attacked and insulted.
The editor of Sottimema. d'Informasione then asked whether the rumours that
the majority of the Italians are opposed to annexation by Italy correspond.
to facts. Surprisingly enough, this majority is loompletely unaware of the
feelings attributed to them by these "rumours". Asked about his ?programe,
Branko Babic repeated all the denands.:(abolition. of -tVo zone. -board tO be
replaced by a. more democratic "Komando Mesta" bilinguality,. surrender of
all Italian state property, introduction of workers' councils etc..) ? .
already proclaimed by him at the popular- assembly in the Rossetti theatre
in May 1945. -A question he was bard put to answer was how Triesto
oxist . as on economically independent state. He .could think. of no -better
reply than to point to the large. nutnba;r of hig,hly skilled Triestine
workers. As if the. muscles Of 'obi, workers were an asset by themselves
independent of raw materials, marints, financing and a few Other 'trifles
of this kindi
If workers' arms are the only vital requisite how. is it that Yugpslavia,
where they aboundois so entirely dependent On foreign help that she -owes.
several billion lire in her- clearing accounts with Italy and that she -
finds herself compelled to .request Germany .for special terms for t ho
extension of 4- h0 present. coratercial treaty which- shows a large deficit
unfavorable' td -.Yugoslavia?
-In Babic's VI.OLI the assertion that an autonomous Trieste Would be.
unable to exist is an Irredentist invention. - Are the 10 billion lire
a year with which Italy np,kes good our deficits also an invention? How-
ever, any furthr discu ss ion of this point is superfluous -i- the. experience
of the forty days in 19145 and the example we have before our Oyes in Zone B
are more eloquent than any words.
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AUSA" s aid to holatita (La)
Yesterday Mr. Palutan accompanied Mr. Unger, the American Political
Adviser, on a tour of the various hospitals and institutes which have
benefited fruit the funds von by AUS.A.
A report on the expenditure of' the al million lire pyant was handed
to Mr. Unger.
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IL C0RP1T4RE TillES17 - Left-wing, pro-PTT, January 22nd, 1952
Articics and aluerts:
-French and world events, from 1933 to 1945 ? Litvinov replaced by
Molotov on eve ,D-C world cenflict importence of this substitution -
Russo-C,ermen e,Teeement - Eloquent See-sew of French Communists as it
apreert,4 from Tire's writings How aggression to Poland came about
( 6th instiltunt)
-8 billion dellers for "Mutual Assistance" - Aid to foreign countries -
urope wi.fl receieve 6i- billions, of which 5,300 millions will be for
militery aid (Fe)
-Discussion on .Austria again postponed - No meeting of Substitutes
yesterday - Problem of Trieste blocks resumption of conference (Fa)
-Chiang Kea-slit-4k' s troops massed on North Burma border (Pb)
,,:further ceeos of collective poisoning at Warehouse No. 70 yesterday
Unjustifiable attitude of managers - AMG should appoint inquiry
? commission ef its own, owing, to negative results of previous one -
Factory Closed by order of Allied Authorities - Labour organisations
rightly demend that workers be Paid for lost days of work (La)
-improvement in Strada di Longera 20 - Another house soon available for
evicted persons (La)
-Compromise Possible on dismissal of "outside" workers Strike at San
Marco shipyards ends - Agitation at Triestine Jute Factory - AMG will
reply to 4.ELIO today (La)
-The 81 millions of AUSA aid used to inprove Trieste institutions -
? Local authorities visit hetepitals (La)
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An offer (editoriel by-line by Eruno Cerne)
A public lecture ab out the most important principles on which Trieste s
economic activity is based has caused the "Ultimo Notizie" and the communal
coincillor Dense to lose their tempers., Since their remarks concerned me
personally, I wish to smotr them directly.
First of I feel g roatly honoured at belonging to the family of
the "Corriere di Trieste" since it is a democratic ? family, each member of
which assume s full responsibility for his writings. He must only comply with
the rules of -b7uth and good, taste expected of any well bred. person.
As for Dr. Delise, it is not Christian behavi-ur to tell people that
they are "corn late inierents". I never considered that I was infallible, but
400orcling to fir. Delis' s article ? began to think, that I should -still be
smarting under the rebuke I got from ii-e2G.
Everyone clearly understood that Alvil compelled the Irredentist press
to admit that the balance deficit refers to one administrative year and not
to a hell year as they prstended. Thus others have been rebuked, as well as
oureelves.
If the irredentists tried to save their faces by misrepresenting the
facts, that is quite understandable since at times one must do anything to
keep up appearances. But it is quite urtelievable that Dr. Delis?
lid not perceive the trickery. Could that be bed faith?'
I have never held that the "aid (of the Italian treasury) is compensated
with usury by the foreign currency 'receipts, which the so-called ITT hands
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I simply stated ti-at the allocations supplied by the Rome Governmnt
aro not an act of "generosity", but are an obliotion under the peace
treaty. Furth xmore I declared the t these sums are not non.-repayable ? but
that thoy will be discussed later betdeon Italy and the Government ofi the
FTT. -3'inally I said that since the 711T has to hand ovor to Rom all
receipts in foreign mer., y, the local Government is unable to use them f
our own needs. In fact at every mooting of the mixed commission, AMG.
found itself compolled to demand :r'rom the Italian Troasury sums, in f roe
dollars, although to a steadily decreasing extent.
they__ still smile? (editorial *note)
? The Mayor's statement on the Trieste flag is a wastorpieee.ef
hypocrisy, impudence, and falsehood.
Since Septeliber 194.7 the halberd flag has flown from the -City Hall
balcony every day. Priviously it was flown only on Special occasions,but
that was after Triestels annexation by Italy in 1918 when the Trieste flag
was replaced by the Italian tricolour. 1.7ith the occupation of this territory
by the Allies, the city Hall .no longer flew the Italian flag because
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according to Art. 5 of Proclamation No. 3, only the British and the American
flags could be flown on public buildings.
In September 19117 General iray announced the ?constitution of the PTT
in his Proclamation No. 1 and the flag of the now State, as specifiod in
Art. B of the Annex VT to the ;Peace Treaty, was again hoisted*
while the Lliiod Nilitary Offices gave the place of -honour to our flag
by potting it botwoen theirs, the City Hall and the Zone Presidoney with-
drew the Allied flags, replacing them with the now State Di) g, i.e. the
halberd flag. The problem of the flag wa thus settled in accordance with
the now law, and. General Airey abrogated the above, =DUD-lied:wt. 5 of
General Alexander's Proclamation No. 3 published on Juno 24th 1945.
Tho statement that the Commune has a right to safeguard' its symbol
"a3Dinst political intrigues" is nonsense just like Cammlaratats discovery
of the continuance of Italian sovereignty over the PTT which amOsod
the jurists of the world.
Equally ridiculous is the Mayorts (and that of the lawyors? who advised
him) request .to prohibit to. (Ahura the use of the Triebto.-flag. It would be
very convenient to remove it from the ships which carry it around the world.
But this will not happen, lot our Mayor be assured of that, this Mayor of
ours who "swore to Observe the national laws still in. force here and those
emergency orders issued by the Military *Occupation Authorities".
17c are anxious to know the attitude of the "Military Occupation
Authorities" (as .11.1G. is milled). "Not even the Gerthans" - said the Mayor -
"had the courage to abolish the tricolour". From which one gathers that
ho classos the Anglo-Americans as even worse than the Germans. Of course,
in 194.3 there was the Stool Pact ?(between Italy, German and Japan), while
now we have the Peace Treaty of February 2nd. 1947.
4nyhow, let us see how I;MG safeguards the prestige of tt'a FTT flag and
their own prestige. Or will they still- smile?
MUSSAC*M0 VANETO Udir10 (Trieste edition) Ital.right-wing Jan.22nd,1952
Articles and reoorts:
4.11'he ghost of Abd ci Krim editorial about recent developments in
Tunisia)
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-Truman submits record budget - More than six and a half billions
destined for Europe - "Two ..-Torld ',Tars proved the impossibility of
issrloritv thrusts to free men", said the President (Fa)
-Peace Treaty with i?ustria Adjournament of the Substitutes' conference
caused by Russian refusal of participation - Westerners contend that
Trieste probissi has nothing to do with the albeat (Fa)
-Ilu;.sian manoeuvre to fktter Lrib countries ?Malik and Vistainsky
again in conversation with 3gyptes Foreign Minister (Pa)
.-Coni7erenee on::]uropean Jrnly postponed Benelux concerned about right
of veto (Fa)
..G.J.crilan rearmament policy - Adonauer's efforts to convince the
Socialists - Labour unions already agree :In observer wiil be sent
by the Bonn Goverment to the Atlantic meeting in Lisbon (Fa)
4lo7.,cico also for ttit: r?Jvi. Aon of the "Diktat" (17h)
-Stalin resppears in public to belie rumours (Fe)
*-Ceremony at ths dispensary of Via 7?ondares - A report on AUSA aid to
the Province - Now hygienic equipment inspected by the Political
Adviour (see 160, page 2.5) (La)
Situation at the shipyards still ,very grave Yesterday total .strike
at San -1.,..Lroo-isc_cause of departure of WS "Augustus" (La)
Trieste snd the Soviets (editorial note)
'Then the 1?.ussians seized. Port Arthur in 1945, Stalin eXalaimed: -"At
long Ltst4 10 have waited forty years for this moment". Those words
reveal in a flash ti4) true nature of the motives which aro at the root of
Russian Not comunism but panslavizm is the driving palor behind all
itsP.Cti0130.
Exnausion has at all, thila ;3 been RUssials'supromo aim which she of-
fotstively camouflaged by pretending to act on behalf of her proteges;
she tried to obtain for Serbia an outlet to the .Adriatic at the London
?onto:sense oft w the end, sf tAx3 first world war, and later in 1.945 she did
her best to secure a domitist position in the Adriatic for Yugoslavia. The
Allies, blinded by resentmist and rivalries, failed to I:3 00 that by ceding
part of tee Venezia Giulia to Tito they wore not revenging themselves on
Italy but opening the 4;sstes of vrestern Europe to connunist panslassism.
.ilthough separated by a side ideological and political rift both
Tito and Stalin 'desire, for different motives, an independent Trieste, and
the Russian attempt to link the issue of Trieste to the Austrian problem
Shows that the Soviets are dotermired not to lose Trieste as a pawn in their
imtrieate game. E.T.ron above conflic.ting, ideologies ranks the Slav lust
for couq_usst.
It is high time that the Postern pomrs became aware that by restoring
Trieste to its rf6therland thsy would be acting in the interests of both
Italy and the 'Test, interests which for centuries were parallel.
Defenders of the citizens? - The Egidi trisl has revealed police methods
which all Italians, ours7tes included, deeply deplore (editorial note)
This s only nature].. 't.That calls for some comment, however, is the
fervour with which "Corriere di Trieste" bewails the reprehensible excesses
of the Italian polies, without finding one word of blame for those misdeeds
committed by the Yugoslav police beyond the Morgan line.
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A year ago ,i78 1)r :1.ntud a full description of the Ma 8 sacre '.of Italian
prisoners of war at Lubiana in January 1946 but it has no more impressed
the Titoists in via Montocchi than the events in the Trieste jails during
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the -forty days of .":4-ngoslav "freedom"?
? The pro-Slav press acts as a- silencer in certain cases and as a
lbudspeaker tn others. Cala this 'be tormed "aufence of the citizens? We
knew such a defender by hearsay. is namo was Lang (the well-gcnown Austrian
ex.ocutioner) and in our opinion he was more respoctallo than tkx.i? present
self-styled "defenders el' the citizen". The point is. that he served ". hav..
ever cruelly only one justice.
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Milent.Triesto edition Ital. Communist Party, January 22nd,1952
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Lrticles and rePorts.
...Causes of mass poisoning. at should be definitely ascertained
Incidents prove physieal weakness of women werk.Drs Lot workdays
must-be paid - Meeting of tobacco workers today at 5 P.14 A.T.I.
temporarily closed by AMG crder (La)
WS "Augustus" sailed asiiid golleral gnation of v,or Twr;.,.1 AMC;
forgets Mr? HaraldSont promise ttr.t no dismissals viouia be made in
the shipyards in first La if of this year (La)
Intolerablo situation - Deplorable VA) X' king conditions in the garbage removal
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service- k.1.-41.)
Vo have repeatedly discussed the situation of the personnel em plo yea in
the garbage removal but so far in vain. The 'agreements concledod by t he
Commune with private con r-..,..;tors expired at the end of 1951 and no steps
were taken -to renew them. Now the garbage is again unloaded at the Noghere
where thu condi Lions of work are simply appalling. The workers have no
dressing-rooms, no chairs, no drinking water, and are not even able to
wash.
. This state of affairs f3bou1d be immediately remedied as it is a gravp
angor to the workers and f5:milies, the 'workers having to return home
without having oven superficially cleaned themselves.
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rticles and reports:
-Yugoslav Ambassador Velobit presents , credentials to Eine.Udi iittention
of .political circles. again focused 'en PTT and Rome-13e10'ide relations -
Civil and religious freedom4n Yugoslavia (Fa)
-Stalin, sound and N.A)11, yosterday.attended theatrical performance and
anniversary celebration. of Lenin's death - Ho is not onl.y alive but
has never undergone heart operation (Fa)- . '
....Mohamed Raouf, Egyptian general arraigned for surrender .to the British -
Minister of Interior accuses British of having killed. sister Antonia (Fa)
NoDocis ivt:3 di-ys for Mossadegh - Elections throughout Iran began today (Ea)
4-Vishinsky icavoo Paris (Pb)
-Compromise solution in MIX, workers dispute SJQIIIS possible - Nootiatiais
to be roomed this afternoon r Extra dismissal bonus ha Y be grantee,La)
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Lack of author:I. ty ( cdi teriel)
. Every vacialetine: policy will, in the, long- run, tangle itself in its
Own web. , , had an ekaeiele of this in the recent "heroic" action by
Trieste's .':,te-yor when. he reproached for unlawful infringiZent of the
Triestine --fleg, whidi he- could. no 'longer support' and therefore .had removed
from the 'City So we see the Triestine flog on the Palace of the Zone
PIK.:Elidency' and in the City H1l we see the stubboxiMayor appointed by AivD,'
who does not even spare Gert.Airey and cries that'Order No. 1 with Which the
General aperwed the flag established by the Peace Treaty, was unlawful and
terroristic.
This incident is a logical result ofA-.6.4- ts policy which we have
repeatedly criticized. In the DY.I2T Slovene schools are teeporarily approved
but the use of the Slovene-language in the courts is prohibited. - 'Many did
!Ltriestines NALO had to leave the territ oxy during ,21a8a3M are now treated as,
undesirables and are ecnied all statal and politiCal rights.- -
To now heve u etete of affairs.in which the Trieste Commune ?simply does
not approve Goverment order's and proclaim the government of the territory,
which has lasted for four years, to be, invalid, while- the -authorities themselves
say net a word. They should .ask themeeaves how such an important position Can
be entrusted to a man who se arbitrarily interpretes the, law. If, even after
the recant incident, the authorities do nothing against the l'oUdincuthed
Irredentist gang 'which was only saved by the noetponeMent of the. elections,
we will have no more fsith in lay.? and order. It is high time that those
rebp::,nsiblo took steps in the matter since ..it is a question of their own
honour eqad of re sre ct for the law.
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Trieste - International oity Considered opinion of a British scientist and
politiej;I a who was a meniLer of! the International Demarcation CommiSsion and
has a thorough knowledge of leo el e onditons
Thu "British Geographical Litgazinell publish:3a an article by kr. LoVott
P. Edwards, an ornin.int crlOn tin -I; -Rho for everal years acted as an envoy
iri .ar3tern Euro}*) and is a.Meeiber of the Interrr tional Demarcation Cornitis sign
buteeen Yuge....lavia and Italy.
.After giving a abort history of the various events loading to the
present sitthtion, the author believJs that, with the improvement of t
relations between the Anglo.i/Teericans and Yugoslavia; on the one side, a-nd.
beteoun Italy and Yugoslavia, on the other, the Trieste iroblom could be
solved on an international basis. Trioste is, in fact, not an Italian but
a Centro-European port, if one considers .lustria and Yugoslavia as Cerrtro-
European countries. He is -co:winded that any solution is better ttnn note.
The basis for the solution should be the ethnic Uric, i.e. tlt "status quo".
The Yugoslav politicians affirm ti-nt the annexation of Trieste and. its
territory by Yugoslavia would represent the final stage of t he unification
of Southern Slays, while for the Italians, Trio ate and Venezia
represent the last line of defence of Italia nity and a springboard for the
conquest of Dalmatia, Albania, end Greece, Os under Mussolini. Edwards
concludes his article stressing that the politicians have first of all, to
remove the various pre,Tiediees still deeply rooted among the peculation of
both countries.
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Humanenoss and hypocrisy ? The campaign against refu,geos is the ugliest product
of national hatred in 'Ix:testa
It is a month siuo "Giornale di Trieste" led an cruel campaign against
refugees who have feund eWLter in the 7:Pree Territory of Trio-ste?
By 1gLLO. H it '.31'naioua I Do 1:Ara ?Lton of Iiuw-In It recently
pledged her r :dins t uifi1 asks which. Italirm circles in Trieste are
also .1.;e respect. Should the.:,:le circles include rarsons who make an
artif!c::l uti Doti botaeon their boig Italian 3 and their ohiigtions -
to comply with do icc brin,ling the Itllian nation, they prove, by so doing,
that their Ttalitvnity is crely a mask: which, they use to attain certain
political airiS on .the .VTT. These people do great ?harm to the Italian
reputation in Trios te?
To na1c t ngci worcu 1,thor is the sad, roalk;ation that all these false
philanthropists be long:; to the most :Cervent catholic circles in Tricto.
Were they to live according to Chri.ritian principles, they certainly would not
write in a ma_ nn r o ta is altc.,gOther at varianco with national tolerance .
and with the interuntien4 good will. They do .not bottrr to write about us,
the native F3lovenes, and about those re::'uguer3 of othor nationalities who
took refuge with us after the second World Tar.
Ll though democraxy it3 110 1; 00/:Ipt1 t3:h lo with shch inhuman feeling:1 and
-nationA intole:IN)nce as ,shown in thi;,1 campaign againzt rof.'ugeeS, yet this
ladCwiLpaigfl is I by t hos a vpry poople who boast of being the most .lornocratic
factors in Tri,JAtets public UAL.
iourthonnerc, it is hypocritical to defend only .-.hoso re:':ugees who
voluntarily left Yugoamiltl, 7,7e consiaor they fully de:lervQ, protoctien, but
to say that they should berivon-.2u11.).71e,Kz and priority even .before the ?
native poptaatif,A1 has nothingin ommon wit h humanity, 113::'..9 ni. VIa nd ?
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ERIMOIIcI DNEVNIK SlOvcne Communist (pro-Tito), January 17th, 1952
STATI NTL
Articles and reports:
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"..Bebler illustrates Yugoslavia' e attitude regarding Vishinskyls
flpace,ful" resolution and declares he will vote against' it - When .
Nerthorners advanced. in Korea Vishinsky never talked of I true:; or.
38th parallel, 'while Bebler and Kardelj proposed truce On that
parallel in Juno. 1950 (Fa)
-American Congresal cold reception of Truman's economic report -Dissatisfaction with announced. inCrease of taxation. for 5 billion
dollars In his report Truman. stressed improvenent in American
economy but warned that next two years will be hard Increased.,
expenditure for defense (7a)
-Japan will sign peace treaty -with?Chiang Kai-shek - Joshid.als1c.or
to Dulles, expressing Japan's willingness to sign peace treaty
Nationalist China, was published today - Opposition in Japanese
economic circles (Fa)
7hy are results poor at Slavone Secondary School in Trieste? - Fbrei
and obsolete school roam.-P Insu:7ficient cooperation between schoc...
and. home - Result of war years - Too long vacation (La)
.-Home for needy teen-amrs -will help to. reduce juvenile delinqueney -
City Aid Fund prepares such a home in via Ma.nzoni (La)
.-Humourous highbrow observer - What "Giornale di Trieste" " s informant
saw at New Year's party in Koper (Capodistria) (La)
amOo?
What was Trieste Mayor's oath? (editorial)
When Tog. Gianni Bartoli, loader of the local Domochristians and,
Irrodentists, was appointed mayor of Trieste he swore he -v,ouJd be faiihful,
uphold the laws of the Anglo-American Zone of the .P.T.T? and cc rry out his
duty to the viblic interest, During the rest two years we often Proved
that he forgot that oath and his recent explanations about the Trieste as.,
are anothJr proof of his forgettliluess?
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editorials, articles and nes reports (.5f interest to AMG3 selected
from the local and., occasionally, foreign press. Text in brackets and.
preceded by the sign + consists of explanations by the editor of this
Bulletin. Foreign news is marked "*T", local "L", if featured it is in
addition marked. "a", if of secondary importance "b". All translations
are summarized, unless otherwise stated.,
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All our readers know how Gereral Airey supported the Tripartite Note
on the return of the ITT to Italy and how ha was liked by the Irrodontists.
So let us look at his ,Proclamation No.. 1. isoued_on September 16th. 1947;
"Since Article 21 of ths Peace Treaty between the Allied and Associated
Powers on one side, and Italy on the other, has come into force, the FTT
has bo on constituted.
"Asst.. 2 of Annex VI to the Peace Treaty entrusts to the Sc3curity
Council of the UN the independence of the ]TT.
"Art. 1 of Annex VII to the Peace Treaty ?provides that until the
arrivs:i. of the Governor, the Territory will be administrated. by the Allied
Militsry Cormands in their rasps ctivs Zones..
thsially tlposinted Governor of the PIT takes office, the
whole s-svernment-3.1 'and administrative authority in that 7,ono of the 71-..rT
oeouoisA by the .Ain7lo-,,Asericsn troops, together with the ,jusisdicati on over
its posoll;stion, 1i con-time to belong to me as Cesmander of the said
Anslo-lonoriosn ns,_litary forces. By this I order thc,t all adrinistrative
and ju/S'osial employees and 911 other governmental and communal functionaries
anj ci,-.)Lo?331 as well as Otl officials and employees of public, corrmunal,
and other institutions, continue to do thsir duty according to the Orders I
will from time to time issue or which will be issued by officers entrusted
by me with this 1-sic,?"
Is Lortoli hinzelf said, among Airey's Orders there is also the Ordas
pro-v:1411r that to flag of the Trieste Commune with the halberd, be at the
same tiss:: the flag the i.e. of its Zone A. The Mayor swore Vat he
would faithfully uphold the legal orders of the Anglo-American Military
Administration. Tiow he "faithfully upholds" them was shown in his recent
explanations. Ho not only opposes Orders but calls others not to
observe thesmi Vie would very much like to know what General Airoyi
successor, the pcosent Zone I Commander, General Wirrturtun, has to say about
this.
GIORFAIA DI TRIESTE - Pro-Italy, non-party daily,. Jo. nuary 17th, 1952
Articles and ronorts:
.-TOlesion-spoosored ,:ton control hardly feasible,. says Acheson How-
ever, Vishinsky's plan was not rejected.- ijoed for access to "sources"
ut isobar energy s Whst is Moscow's aim? (Pa).
-King, of Jordsn visits Rme - King Talal paid -gisit to Moms:pent of
.i-,11...nt.srn Ztalian Soldier (Fa)
_sir to Egyptian throne born yesterday at 7,30 A.IT. - :Baptism of
i:od orKing Farok's son - Five :-Is7yptions killed doring,s, skirmish
sith -ristish troops, while the nation celebrated happy event at.
Court (ps)
- Gas s atutc3r.:1171; to. journalists - No crisis and n?ontroversy
on economic questions - Date of elections still unknown (Pa)
-ltolicn Senste unanimously s.polnudos De Nicola A delegation will.
call on Th3 Niccia todny in order to make him change his decision (Fa)
Gcr-orrnh, rt crisis nearing SC) lilt i011 - Edgar .2Paure already
csrtain ts obtain neoessary ms,jority - Military parade in honour of
the late De Tass igny
-ilruth about Russian iavy - Obsolete warships but very modern sub-
rs:..rinos - The biggest warship is the former "Giul:ie Cesare" (Pa)
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41vidonoo given by two Italian optees. from Yugoslavia - Italian
prisoners in Mitrovica jail ... There is also -a Triestino, who was -
deported in 194.5 (Fa)
-and of Korean conflict depends on CPMMUnis ts, said. cardinal Spollnan
in Rome - Clarification on rolations botweenTashington and Vatican
(17a)
??11.1....itish Cabinet oonVoked by Triden - A protest to Teheran - Uncasinoss
1.bout Japanese intention to conclude an agreement with Chiang Kai-
.shek (213) -
-Itale-Yugoslav agroorent on fish ratified by Commission for oreign,
jfairs of Italian Par1iaT110 (73%)
V/Or13 compollOd, to TflOve from Zeno B - Disputes among
Titoist big-wigs-- over key-positions (La)
sipn:cant motion anProvod at meotin7 of Italian Repliblican :?artZ
Alropcan unity violated without integral restitution of the
:(11`T to Italy (La)
The annual meeting of the Trio stina section of the Italian Republican
Party ooncluded its ;or% two days .ago. T3)sidos several decisions of puro.
adyilnistrative character and the eLoction?of a now Exect.I.A.vo, tho moot..
unanimously pl wow a the f ollowing motion:
"The 1-orer21. Meoting of the Triestine section of the IRP, considoZ.
the gradual p:L-ograss of the plan for federal unification. of tho 17pestorn
uropean nations, Erfinns thP,t tho inhabitants of the so-ca llod.:71r2, who-
undoubte'r'lly.bolon;y, to the regionS and populations' included in the Bun:veal
7odoration, should send their own r..)nrebontatives to the forthcoming into:k
parliamentary assembly of the 'European Union., This participation can 'be
carrie.d out only after a complete restitution of the :7TT to Italy. Such
a solution would be in conft,rmIty with the desiri: r:meatedly oxpressod
by the pdpOlatidn, the tripartite cleelaration, and para IV of
Article 21 of the Pecos Treaty. Moroovor., the Powors actually.admintstatinr:
this territory are not entitled to represent it at the above-montionod
inter-parliamentary assembly because: 1) they lack the necessary juridical
power; 2) ara?nt Isritain will not participate, in this a.E.Isayilly; and 3)
because the final constitution of t ho alliiropean TJ'oderation will :bo based
on the principle, of djreet rorcsentation of populations concerned."
Approving this motion, the Triestino soction of the IRP expresses
the hope that other Italian lands, actually under foreign domimitiOn, will
also be freed through the European-.:73',-glerstion and returned to Italy.*
Ei kiht hours' riaj for the wo rice rs of the SELAD - Nothing now about the San
J',.arce tation (La)
In the b)rosenoe of the director of tho Labour Office atty. Lovitus,
the secretaries of. the CZ, TsTovelli and Pinguentini had a' talk with ADD
in ordea to submit n ono comanris of the OM which wore not yet taken into
account in the 2 ramowork of the LLTZAT). The main question, the reduction o
working hours with consequontly lt.wor salaries has boon settlod. AnG has,
in fact, rippro vo d the deroa,nd of the 'JL by .establishing a. working day of ?
oight hours* As for: the other t.-lo resuosts, namely salaries for t ho
"skeleton" sta:?f, and in dorrl'Ati Cg3 for i?king hours unavoidably lost,
two soprot_r;iriLs3 promised .A11; they would. slibmit definite proposals as sc,
as possiblo., Tho7i71 in vi thing now in the San Marco question. No over-t..
work was done yestorday. Today VD work.rs belonging to the CdI, will hol.
a meeting in order to decide. on ? joint action*
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.4_.a..0.1:Llern of general interest - The forgotten Grign.ano (La)
Today at the public transport office (:Ispettorvto pen le motorizzazione)
the problem of comeunications with TvIL.--amare and Grignano -,.(111 be discussed.
Owing to public derna ndo maw prop? sa Is, including the institution of new public
services between Bore-01a ari Grig,na no be ex arid Ile d ? -
We would point out that it is not a question of insufficient transport
between Trieste and Grignano, which wore always able to cope with the exist-
ing traffic, but the need.et of GI'larlo itself must be tAlznn into actount in
view of its future dervelopment. G-rignano badly needs reiadsistreet
telephones, shops and other public services.
For insiance there. has 1:e en a request for the construction of -a road
Grignan.e -vvith..e=.urisina. Also a church should be built. The present
oondit ions a not encHuragin to private enterprise .
Th uitLon i t .=_!ic) at hozzol, for which we urged similar previsions.
ere, too, public f,dministettion should take the lead, in order to promote
cntor7-:,rise.
IL (XL.I, DI TILDI.L:riE - Loft-wing, pro-17T, January 17th, 1952
Articles %ridr7norts:
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-US confronted with difficult task - Truman's economic message foretells
period of austerity - Law for defense production prolonged, by two years -
Aid to fr.o countries to ciontinue ?- Increase of taxation to cover deficit
of 5 billion dollars - Cold reception by Congress (I'a):
-Faure :will ask for investiture today (Pa)
o-Amori can rel. ati ens about to be put in their right perspective -
Eden back in London, Churchill in Washington - Eden convokes ,Cabinet
meeting (ioa)
-Violent offensive by Viet Minh against French forces. in Indochina -
The battle of Hao-Binh - French Carl:land reports increased power of
enemy's arrti-airs.crft guns- - Encircled garrison supplied by air (Fa)
-While blood is shed at Ti el Kebir tension easing between London and
Cairo (Fa)
-Drama of l'rance ;Ind of the world bet:v.10(r 1 933 and 1943 - R5pon51bil1ty
for inaction about Nazis' aims - Paris and London well Imola Hitlerts
intention to force his troops into demilitarized Rhineland but. pretended
to r;:,c!arr.lt infrmoticin or this matter as false (2nd of series, by L,
Car tile)
-1-?ortOc:Iming clectil,ns in Zone B of the PTT? - Yugoslavia will participate
in the 1(1,2 Trieste Fair (4- it is thought in Belgrade that Zone. B
autholitios intend to hold now administrrative elections in the near
fotoo. The la at eections were held r n April 1 (th 1950, and the
;:v.nrilute is valid for two years. It seems that various political
pt:rtios will participate in next elections) (Fa) -
-1,1ove--mouts of foreign diplomats in. Moscow limited (113)
.11.1.ied prisoners in 1.rder te 'fabricate "proofs" about "guilt" of
th A.6fL,ndantS, Ehe agents of the Bulgarian State Security employed
also other dishonourable means. The accused Aedzepov and Gavrilevskil
prior te their arrest received letters and parcels with provocative
contents whith they immediately handed over to the authorities.
speci:q, role'in-the inhuman machination of the Bulgarian or;ans
was played by the Lent provocateur of the Bulgarian State Security
Service Nurcel Omerevic Mahmat, who was in pribpn since November 1950
because of theft and ether criminal acts. His trial for these acts
was t-strime-1 for the sole reason that he might play his dirty role -
in regard to the fact that he knew the rest of the accused. In c-m-
Pliance with the given instructions, Lurcel"cenfirmed"in a mnst
unconvincing way earl, item of the indictment, because he.
"was present"
at ,all these "espionage mgetings" -)f the ether accused with the
-rficials -f the YugesIav Embassy in 1341,2-yip and served in this we
as the sole "unchailengea nroor er t e'.anti-Bulgarian" activities
to the nrganisers of this trial. For his role, Niurcel Omerevic, in
spite of the fact that his formal cenfessien represents a serious
crime - he' was rewarded with the smallest sentence and with the Premise
of the Public Prosecutor that he will net even.
Besides this the very fact that 45 witnesses were heard in one
hour and a half clearly speak about the way in which this trial was
cc nducted. All these witnesses, with the excepti of one, boil down
their statements to a sievole declaration that they knew the accused as
Yfgood and_henest mew' witheut mentioning a single item of the indictment.
Only one witness, Jordan Kolev, wh- had to confirm that he gave to
/aril Redz.epov and JUija?Kazarova pion material of a military
nature refused before the curt to repeat his iHrmer statement,
declaring that pending trial he was"under Particular circumstances",
rind thus, this witness, instead mf c)nfirming the cerresp'nding item
,f the indictment in fact tonftmed the way in which were prepared the
statements -r the rest -r the qorenlants,
The above-mentionei facts prove n- deubt that the above trial nf
Yugoslav citizens represents an unsuccessful iulicial farce, which has%
the eblective of slandering the FPRY and her former liplematic represe-
tatives in Bulgaria ani to exert anther pressure nn the fugs.lev
citizens in Bulgaria. Such an nct ef the F,ulgarian Trgens represents
aneth F,h-stile act by the Government of ?Ft 3u1-;-aria a,?;ainst the F,PaY.
The' result of such a polity is that two inn-cent men have been
sentenced tedeath. that all human regards have been passed over and that
it was net taken into account ti-at these men have their tamilies.
The fact that the Bulgarian press and radio, centrary to the
hitherto practice - did not bring a single worl about this trial as
well as the fact that nresence at this trial was Permitted only
to one member of each of the families 'f the accused; rreves the fear
of the Bulgarian Government, that such inhuman and illegal acts ef the
Bul?arian ercrans sh-uld not met with the iustified and
iis g
tust -f Buiarian and intornetienal public opinion. I-waver,
there is'no' d-ubt that such relic- and acts 'of the Bul7nrian Tvernment
?anl its organs - the m-resn because they have been _Idle after the
United Nations Heseluti n of 14th December -f last year - by-which the
UN gave recommeniations f-r the stenuage of aggressive activities ?,f
the Bulgarian and other Eastern Eurepean Governments towards Yugoslavia
hove-not only experienced a sharp condemnation ef the Bulgarian people
but also that of international public opinion.
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The Government of the FPRY will be forced to inform the UN con-
Cerning this act against the citizens ef Yu4os1avia) which is 0)ntrary
to the obligations of the Peace Treaty and to the respect of human
rights and basic human fTeedom.
The Government of the FPRY protests m)st energetically against
the terror upon the above-mentioned innocent Yugoslav citizens breuht
before the court, as well as against insults and slanders mode at this
trial against the FPRY and its former diplomatic representatives in
Bulgaria and warns the Bulgarian Government of the seriousness of the
consequences which Might arise from such a policy and for which'the
Bulgarian Government will have to bear thu sole responsibility..'
In regard to the fact that the above-mentioned trial against
Yugoslav citizens represents a misuse, of jurisprudence for political
objectives as well as the fact that the statements of individual
defendants given before the court cannot be c)nsidered as meriterieus
because of the complete physical exhaustion and fear to which the
defendants were brought by several months of torture by the police,
the Government of the FPRY - in order to protect the innocent fu?4os1av
citizens and the defence of their basic rights - energetically iemenls:
1) That the Government of PR Bulgaria undertakes immediately the
necessary measures to prevent the execution of the death sentences of
the defendants Danilo Doncic and Tafil Reizepov;
2) That the Government of PR Bulgaria undertakes the necessary
measures for a new trial of the above-mentioned Yugoslav citizens, at
which, in the presence of the public and the representatives of the
Yugoslav Embassy in Sofia, the ,:ree defence of the accused would be
ensured based on the respect of human rights;
3) That representatives of the 'Yugoslav Embassy in Sofia sh ull
be given the immeiiate possibility of contacting the sentenced fugeslav
citizens.
it the same time, the FPRY Government lem[nds from the Bvlgarian
Government that it undertakes measures and prevent it organs n th
future from exerting Pressure unen fu;oslav-citizens in _Algeria ane.
secure for them all the rights, in compliance with undertaken obli-
gations from the Pence Treaty.
Belgrade, January 14th, 1952.
(BORBA 7 15th January, 192),
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PLENARY SESSION OF THE CENTRAL COMiqITTEE OF THE SYNDIC ATK OF
CIVIL SERVANTS.
Yesterday the Plenary Session of the Central Committee of
the Syndicate of Civil Servants was held A At the meeting Comrade
Marjan Vivoda, president of the Central uommittee,took the chair,
The meeting ? declared that some syndicate organisations
took no account of clerks, who,'becauF'e of the reductions in state
administration, found themselves tempory e-Lt In the
office of the Central Committee criticisms were made of certain
occurrences, whereby services were terminated'for incorrect reasons,
without the need for fewer jobs0 With regr'rd to 'clerks who found
themselves temporarily out of work, the 7yrri,ete organisations
neither kept records of then, nor gav-: them support, In those cases
where the organisations did take care of such clerks it was found
that work could, be obtained for them in economic administrative
concerns, In some places they replaced expert workers who until then
had done administrative work, The Meat Committee in Zagreb organised
.an.employment agency, end the Meat Committee in Belgrade has a .
commission which is specially concerned in looking after the protection
of employees;rights.
The meeting investigated questions of the promotion of clerks
in more occupations, since this had been suspended at the.,end of ?
September last year because of the new economic system, he President
of the Central 'ommittee, Marjan ivoda, declared that this decision
was no longer effective, and that, syndicate organisations ought to give
support to these clerks, who could be diverted into more occupations.
The meeting stated the need for syndicate organisations
to give more attention to the problem of the advancement of our
administration, Today this problem is chiefly the concern cbf the
state, Syndicate oranisations would 17)6 able to give a good deal of
help to the decrease, and the improvement of administration,
At the end of its work, the meeting declared that it would
hold a Second ongress of ivil Servants this year0
n A
S.eptember?
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DCISION ON RESUMPTION OF CENTRALIZATION OF LAND
The Council for -AgricUiture-and'ForeStry Of the Government of
the FPRY announced its decision on resumption of centralization-of-land
of agricultural estates and peasant working cooperatives?.
'First., in view,Of:the.completian of the autumn sowing and deep
plduthing_campaigns., the work on centralization of land Of agricultural
estates'and.peasantworking :cooperatives may now be resume.
Second, the transfer of land is to be effected on'the ground of
the legally valid decisions of centralization commisslons after col-
lection of crops.
Third, this decision is effective from the date it is published
in the SLUZBENI LIST (Official Gazette) of the FPRY.
From the date it is published, this Decision abrogates the
decision on discontinuation of work on centralization of land of
agricultural estates and peasant working cooperatives.published in
the SLUZBENI LIST # 50 of the FPRY.
,BORBA,.:January l5, 1952. '
OUR RIVERS AND LAKES ',ILL NOW BE ENRICHED 'ITH A MILLION OF TROUTS
About a Million trouts, or six times as many as in the past
year, will now be lot loose in rivers end lakes of Montenegro.' A
modern hatchery, erected at Mlinski Potok near Zabljak during the
past autumn, will now supply the Black Lake, near'Durmitor and
a dozen of smaller lakes in the vicinity of nurmitor ahd Sinjnjevina
with fish. Among these lakes, there is also a fish lake where fish
had been destroyed during the war. Another hatchery will be erected
for supplying end increasing the quantity of fish in rivers of Tara
and Piva..
Hatcheries of Vidrovan,'near Niksic, and that of the irrigation
canal'near 'Titograd supplted the Montenegreen,,rivers.with'the, Californian
?
trouts for the first time in 1951. .
BOPA, 'January 15., 1952.
SIGNING OF TRADE AGREEMENT BETWEEN .JUGOBLAVIA AND WESTERN GERhANY.
Bonn 14th. January
In Bonn an agreement has been machod concerning an eXchange
of goods between Jugoslavia and Westrn Germany for 1952.
According to the agreement goveehing these trade exchanges, Western
Germany will provide Jugoslavia with coke, coal, and raw materials
for the metallurgical and textile industries: In exchange Jugoslavia
will provide Western Germany with agricultural and food products,
wood minerals, metals, tobacco, and hemp
This trade agreement ,domes into force, at once, without
waiting for; the 4'inancia1 agreement betwepn Westurn Germany and
Jugoslavia, which j,s being neg6ciated'now. (Tanlug).
BORBA 15th, January.
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FIRST NUMBER OF THE MAGAZINE "SLOVENSKI JADRAN" PUBLISHED IN
CAPODISTRIA
The first number of the magazine '.?Slovenski.Jadran" has
just been published at Capodistria to replete the organ of
the Liberati.on Front called "Istarski Tednik". It is an illustrat-
ed paper. The paper contains articles on socialist reconstruction
of new YugasIavial brief reports on famous Slovene books and variom
? interesting news from the field of scientific research and progress
in technology. ? ?
(Y,A.VOCE DEL POPOLO, January 11, 1952)
DENATIONALIZATION OF SLOVENE SCHOOLS IN GORIZIA
There are numerous indicatiomthat the existence of Slovene'
schools in the province of Gori'zia does not suit the Rome Govern-
ment and its representatives in the prefecture of Gorizia affect-
ing the fulfilment of their policy of denationalization applied
in this region.. They would prefer to turn Gorizia into an Italian
province at the example of propaganda spread about by the Irreden-
tisV. For this reason exactly, they transferred approximately 4
thousand exiled Istrians to Gorizia and about 13 thousand in the
interior of the province. They all now seek bread from the local
population, although 11 per cent of the people in the province of
Gorizia. is unemployed.
As of September. 16, 1947, there were -numerous Slovene schools
in the. province'of GOrizia with'alarge number of students, so that
they represented a serious obstacle put in the way of the policy
of denationalization applied towards the Slovene population.. In
order to make this policy a suCCess, Itelv could' not avoid the
introduction of some measures aimed at the frustration of activity
by Slovene schoolsenolth&ir final removal. To this same effect,
on January 16, 1950 a decision was passed by. the Minister of
Education dated January 13,1950 saying that the sons and daughters
of persona who opted for Italy must stop attending the Slovene
schools , but join those where instruction is being held exclu-
sively in-the Italia-r1 language. Furthermore, even those children
whose parents were not of the same nationality but one of them
was a Slovene were also not allowed to attend any other schools
Although both of these problems were the responsibility of
local provincial authorities, they were dealt by the Rome authority
and in accordance with their aims. Nevertheless, Slovene secondary
and elementary schools couldnOt be closed down being attended
by over 150 children.
In the mean time an intensified pressure began to be exercised
upon the parents of those pupils who attended Slovene schools wish-
ing to tranfer them from Slovene into Italian schools. This pressu.
re was especially expressed towards various functionaries and '
employees in state agencies. Numerous Such cases were reported
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When Slovene people applied. to the authorities for the
opening of Slovene schools in places where there, wore none,
the signatories of these applications were threatened by
policemen whe'searChed-their houses. As .a result in the
district of Nocnik only. 4 children were enrolled at the local
Slovene school, althot*h'in the course of the previous years
there were-MorO2thp.n'22:-from the sam'f,,, district ?
1.)eepite, all hindrances.; the Slovene sectndary as well as
elementary.-achools centinue to exist and develop their activitt,,
This .ie' par* due to the contributiorDmade by-the membra of the.
Students t Club Of GOrizia.including from 80 to 100 members
attending SlOvene schools. The authorities do not at all ?
support this society, but even attempt to find an exouse for
its prohibition. This 'society is supported by the population.
Slovene kindergartens were also affected by'tho authorities.
They 'were all 'pit under the administration of ONAIR, an infamous
organizktion of 'Fascists founded in' 1919 under the auspices of
the DuChess of Adsta. This organization always played the role
of grebt:Italian supporters in this province and after.the'World
War: II its task remained the same. Most of thc personnel employed
by this Organization is now the same as under the fascist.regime.
Among other things they introduced the Italian language obliga.
torily. Therefore the representative of the Slovenes An the -
Municipal Council protested :against such n decision, but without
any success, The majority voted against' the Slovene complaint,
so that even the largert Slovene kindergarten at Standrez was put
under the administration of ONAIR. This same organization is also
carrying out the denationalization of thousands of children from
VeneziaGiulia
This, la the state of affairs which continuo7from month to ,
month Either operay?or disseMbled, the authoritiosand their
collaborators inflict serious.daMbges to the. Slovene edubatitn
and their schools in the' province of Gorizia leo!ing unable to
close. them down. They ObJect very much because?the Slovene,.
schools 1Tere. Covered with stars beforc'the Italian authority
returned to.this proVince.
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The Slovene DemOoratic.Front/hae regidtered 6 PrOtest at,
the pIontincial authOrities and UNESCO. On June 7, 1950 a memo
was sent to UNESCO with details and documentation on Slovene-
schools in Gorizia,
bedPite all pretests, the authorities: continUo with their
? :policy. They remain reluctant to?SanctiOn:S1oVen6' schools, or.
appoint capable teaChersor authorlLe tho:t* of t:xtbookJ printedin
FT or Slovenia or to published new ones,
The schools. 4re administered by enemies of the Slovenes who
would like to impede all contacts between Slovene students and the
cultural circles of Slovenia or the DITTO Following a MO:00' visit
by .a group of studenta from Gorizia paid tea printshop.in Trieste,
disciplinary proceedinga:were'undertaken against 'some professors.
This proves to what extent spiritsthe.of neo fascists wore upset
by this fact, '.
Regardless to changes of frontier lines, namely whether they are
now in Italy or net, the ,Slovenes re still of -Lugosla7,origin.
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ACTIVITY BY THE CLERGYMAN EGIDIO MICETIC FROM KUKULJANO
It is quite probable that "father" Egidio considered that
the seventh commandment did not concern him at all, but only
his faithful.' Maybe he maintained that it would be quite
sufficient to confess his sins to himself. Anyhow, it is a
fact that "father" Ngidio Micetic, 39 years of age, the priest
at Kukljano, could not hide his malfeasances and thefts from
the citizens. He was disclosed and brought before the District
Court of Rijeka.
In his sermons held at the ch.mh he never failed to ask
alms and other services from his faithful.
On one occasion he applied for some wood and obtained per.
mission from the enterprise "Tuhobic" to purchase 3 cu.m. On
August 1801951, he made arrangements with a lorry driver to go
into the woods and collect that firewood in evening. hours. But
inst,ed of loading 2 cu.m. only having already obtained 1 u.m.
previously, he asked the driver to load additional 8 cu.m, of
firewood. This theft was discovered by an employee of this
enterprise upon their leaving of the woods. The whole case was
reported to the District Court of Rijeka, The trial. was held
on January 9,1952 and the clergyman received a sentence of six
monthst imprisonment. Following an investigation it was found
out that at his house this clergyman had other 14 cu.m. of fire-
wood and did not at all need the requested quantity.
Herewith another example of his petty crimes. In July of
1951 he went together with Kruno Mopajtic and Filippina Micetic
to collect some honey from beehives kept at Gornje Jelenja. On
their way there, they stopped to have a drink at a tavern. As
there was nobody there except one water, he begged Filippina to
go to the cellar and bring the two litres of wine they asked
for, After having helped themselves, the clergyman interrogated
her why she failed to bring along some more wine if there was
nobody else in the cellar. In this way she could inflict damage
to nobody since the tavern was state ()Wiled. In reply to this
Filippina told him that she wondered how it was possible to
believe in God if a clergyman could suggest such a thing.
These facts might do for the disclosure of this clergyman
and his activity. However, we have some more to -offr. In
October of last year while waiting at the bus station at Cavle,
he approached Miljenka Tomosini who was also welting for the bus.
As he noticed that she was young but. that she had bad teeth, he
proposed her to go and see a dentist. In reply to this Tomasini
said that she had n.) money to afford for the treatment of her
teeth. As he had learnt from their conversation that her husband
worked at an enterprise 7e.n1ing with the sale of firewood, he ad-
vised her to persuade her husband to steel some firewood and bring
it to him. Upon the receipt of firewood, he promised to give her
some money for her treatment. .It is more than certain that he woull
not give the proper price. a The girl die not follow the cler-
!ayrilants advice,but told her husband everything. Later on they made
the whole case public.
Gradually this clergyman also became greedy, but when on one
occasion he asked Stjepan Micetic to prepare a whole 'lamb for him
he never paid for it pretending that he had no debts to settle.
(LA VOCE DELJ,OPOLO, January )1,1952)
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SUMMARY OF THE YUGOSLAV PRESS
This Bulletin contains translations from Yugoslav newspapers and periodicals. It is intended for the use of
the participating?missions and not for general distrilptiop. ? Accuracy of the translations is not guaranteed. ?
No.689
P.1.
P.2.
P.3.
11th January
MEI
qeadlines of, Politika of the 11th January,
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HeadlinbS of Politika continUed
Headlines of Glas of the llthTJanuary
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Headline's Of 31oVenski Porocevalecof the 8th and 9th January
Headlines of La Voce del Popolo of the 9th January
Headlines of the 20t4-0ktobar,of 'the 4th,' 7th and 8th January
1952,
FROM THE 20TH OKTOBAR OF THE 26TH DECEMBER
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P.4. Negotiations regarding provision of tractors from abroad
FROM BORBA- OF, THE, 9TH J4UA4Y-
P.5. New organisation in peasant co-operatives, in Croatia,: A.nterview
given by Ivan 7ukovic,to?Borba:-
FROM BORBA OF THE 10TH JANUARY
'P,16. Proposed .social plan for Croatia to be discussed in detail ,afterf
the 20th January
FROM POLJ.:TIIUQF'THE 10TH JANUARY ,
"Shortsightedness or soMethi4
preSs comMent'on Yugoslavia:
FROM POLITiKA OP 'TH'E 11TH JANUARY
P,16. Manoeuvres of Italian CmihforMists
Partisans
with Congre.ss: f Italian
P.20, Letter from London' the British
talks (ArtiCle'by-Radoicic)
P,21. US requests USSR'to-return.boats
Provocation On the IlTura .
Telegram to Kardelj'from'Hun7arians of Barcka district
P,22,
23.
press on the results
f Washington
The dragging out of negotiations in Korea Editarial)
Representative of the World Council of Churches ln e1 grade ,
Representative's of Austria, Yugoslavia and Germany hold Oopference
on river navigation.
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POLITIKA
11th January, 1952.
P.ls- Yugoslav Embassy"in Paris hrlds reception, in honour of a delegation
of the French Socialist Party
Representatives of Austria.- l'ugoslavia and Germany hold con-
ference on river navigation ,
.Crisis of the French Government:
Trade Union reaction
-Bidault returns Mandate (AEP,
Faris)
Far Eastern problems! poor outlbok for a compromise ino.Korea:
China and North Korea suffer heavy losses during the night
of the 9th. January (UP, Tokyo)
American delegation in the UN opposes discussion on Korea
(Undesignated news report from Paris)
-US REQUESTS USSR TO RETURN BOATS (UP, Washington)
Resignation of President Of Italian senate
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THE DRAGGING OUT OF NEGOTIATIONS IN KOREA (Editorial by B.Dikic)
UN Assembly! Arab countries ready to negotiate directly with
Arab proposal
In the Economic Committee a resolution was adopted on
Arab reform
Social Committee adopts 5..Power Resolution on refugees
PRMOGATION-:ON THE MURA: MEMBERS OF HUNGARIAN NATIONAL MINRITY
PROTEST AGAINST THE AGGRESSIVE ACTION HUNGARIAN COMINFOiMISTS:
TELEGRAM TO EDVARD'KARDELJ FROL HUNGARIANS OF THE BRCKA
DISTRICT OF MOL
P.2, LP;TTER FROM LONDON t TuE 11:117I5H PRESS ON THE RESULTS OF WA3HINGTU4
TALK (Artfile by LtRadoicic)
Truman-Churchill talks: meeting between Acheson and Eden has no
definite results (UF, Washington)
Truman wants Eisenhower to maintain the present position
Conference on the defence of South East Asia begins today
No solution yet found to the Suez prolism (UP, Washington)
Egyptian representative on talks in 4ashington , ?
MANOEUVRES OF ITALLY COLINFORMISTS WITH CONGRESS OF
PARTISANS
,President of Dutch Government leaves on visit to US
WORK OF LEGI6LLTIVE COI\ZiITTEES OF THIS SESSION OF THE PEOPLE'S
ASSEMBLY OF T!HE FPHY: RIGHT OF CITIZENS TO APPEAL AGAINST LEGAL
DECISIONS OF STATE AUTHORITIES
P.34 Conference of representaties of Serbian industry: ent:erprises
must fight to make use of all their reserves and to lessen
production costs: speeches by Svetozar Vukmanovic and Jovan
Veselinov
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P.3. The-taseS ihat'.C6me before the magistrates, courts (Article 3c1431..)
Pia
Soon train s ikith=a?normal. gauge,will run through the fertile area of
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the Pol (Article by J.Popovski)
Representatives of the World Council of Churches in 84-krade ? ?
This year preparations will be speeded uP for the erection of houses
according to regulations concerning the bui.Ldiig of apartment
houses: about 10,000 workmen and officials wiLlpb? engaged on
this in Serbia
GLAS
The tasks of the Syndicates (Editorial:-Sign d' ? .?
F.24. ThecbeginninTof. the attainment of an important task (Article on
.sto.ekraising by Stanimir Milosevic)
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? SLOVENSKI. POROCEVALEC
? January 80 1952.
P.1. Foreign tourists book places on the Adriatic for
. this yearts summer season.
.Training of workers and technicians who are going to
work at the Lukavad coke factory. .
Magnesite brick factory will be put into operation
this summer at Rankovicevo.
Coal production of the Majevica
P.2. Biography of the national hero Alojz Kolman?Marok'
January 9, 1952.
P.1. The Slovene High School of Engineering awards honorary
degree to the Swiss professor Dr. Mirko Roach.
P.3. Livestock inventories made in Slovenia during the last
century.
LA VOCE DEL POPOLC
January 9, 1952,
P.2. Further reconstruction of the Port of Rijeka.
P.2.
20 OKTOBAR
January 4, 1952.
Appeal by Yugoslav emigrants living in Bulgaria published
in "Rabotnicesko Delo" of December 12) 1951.
P.3. Fall in market prices in Belgrade as a result of the
introduction of new economic measures.
P,3.
Manufacture of the first Yugoslav records made by
"Yugodisc".
January 7, 1952.
This yearts record sugar production in our country.
European Plant Protection Organization offers aid to
Yugoslavia in overcoming tent caterpillars affecting
mulberry treis.
January 8, 1952,
P.3. New names of schools in Belgrade.
Reasons for a coal shortage in Belgrade.
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NEGOTIATIONS REGARDING PROVISION OF TRACTORSTAOMHABROAD,
The Central Cooperative Union of the.FFRY is now'?
negotiating terms governing a purchase of tractors and
ploughs from certain British and French firms. In case of
favourable financial terms and delivery dates the Union will
buy more tractors than it bought at the beginning of the past.
month, when number of bought tractors amounted to 2,190. The
Union expects also to buy a good number of trucks: tractor
trailers and ploughs. Next month, the Central Union will
also negotiate purchase of tractors and ploughs which are
planned for procurement in 1952.
Tractors bouqht in November are already in our
country. Two-thirds of tractors have been bought in 'Germany
and are now distributed to our producing and other agricul.,-
tural cooperatives. Tractors bought in France will be
delivered to our representatives in a 'few days and those
bought in Italy very soon. Tractors purchased in England
will also be loaded on our ships in a! few days time.
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COOPERATIVES IN CROATIA?THE DIRECTOR OF THE DIRECTORATE- OF
COOPERATIVE AGRICULTURE OF-CROATIA2IVAN VUKOVIC 2INTERIEWED'BY
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A "BORBA" CORRESPONDENT.
A "BORBA" correspondent has asked the Director of the
Directorate of Cooperative. Agriculture of Croatiajvan Vuka7ic,
to describe to him the experience gained to date in introduction'
of a strict economy system(1!privredni racun") in the Peasant
Working Cooperatives of Croatia.
Q: A new metaod of organisation of work has been introduced
in some of the Cooperatives in Croatia, What difficulties are
you encountering in introduction of the new organisation of work ?
A: The difficulties which we are encountering most often
stem from the wrong concept of some of our men who deal with.the
problem of Cooperatives and who have not grasped the eesenee-of?
the new measures elaborated in the Instructions of the CC CPI .
"On the future roads of socialist reconstruetion of the countryside",
Yany are inclined to view the new organisation of work as
being a pure drive for Trofitable bueiness of economic enterprises.
We have a fair amount of difficulties resulting from such a view
of some of the Comrades. They think that it is sufficient to make
calculationshat it is sufficient to detect how the Cooperative ?
farms have been working in an uneconomical way,and that now,when
the shortcoming are pointed out to the Cooperatives,everything will
be put in order. We have today in Croatia several hundreds of
calculations made in the Peasant Working Cooperatives,and all these
calculations give excellent economic conclusions,but,however,we
have not gone any fruther from those conclusions, Such calculations
are kept in desk drawers in the offices of the Cooperatives,and from
there they have not moved any farther,
Some of the Cooperative leaders however think that with the
new organisation of work,after the calculations are made ,the following
should be done; divide the land into small parcels,divide the
members of the Cooperatives into small groups, and ineide those
groups,for the sake of personal economic interests of the members
of the Cooperatives,the parcels of land should be further divided
--right up to families, Such and organisation would,in their opinion,
arouse great interest for production such as exists in the,pxei,- ate
sector. The members of the Cooperatives would give a fixe ta
of their products into the Cooperative accumulation fund,ar 4the
rest of the products would remain for thema
Most frequent cases of wrong concepts we have had in the
regions of Bjelovar and Zagreb,and even now there are traces of
them in our republic,
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Semelhowever,do not see anything new ,in this
organisation of work; they consider that such an organisation
of work had alreadyexisted on government agricultural estates,
and that it is only necessary to turn in some way the "Trudod'an"
(daily work classified into categories-Ed.) into wage which
would be paid out in .one part as a pormanent,guarantted
part of wage,and the rest as a supplementary wages depending upon
the final success of the Cooperative. In their opinion,the wages
should be 'divided into seven categories --similar to the division
of work into categories under the ?Trudodan" system-- and the
problem would then be solved.
Such an idea of organisation of work stems from the
mistaken opinion that nothing has changed in our economy, that
managment of economy by the workers is only a pure formality.
The essential thing,they saylis to make the plan of production,
make the production costs,fix the wages and fix the quotas of
sontribution into the Cooperative fund-- and thereby we have
placed the Cooperative upon the basis of profitability and
transformed it from a backward into a progressive one.
In my opinion there are a number of weaknesses here
and this scaring is the most dangerous precisely for the reason
that at2 the glance it is similar --and the defenders of such
ideas are particularly emphasizing this-- to the principles
outlined in the Instructions of the CC CP Yugoslavia.
If there does exist a similarity,it is a similarity of
individualtisolated and separately considered elements.
We consider that the essential thing for the new
organisation of work is: profitable working of the Cooperative
farms and development of new,adequate production relations in
them--both parallel,simultaneous.
To establish one--namely the profitable working--and
to neglect the other--the question of production relations --
Would without doubt feduce the codperative organisation to the
level of a state-capitalist enterprise; it would reduce it to
the level of hired-labour relations.
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Advantages of the new method of work in peasant working (producing)
cooperatives
Question! What are actually those new producing relations that are
emerging from introduction of the new, method of work?
Answer: The best I could do, I believe, is if I expound examples,
manifested in practice, because this conception is from a ?
theoretical side sufficiently known and clear. First of all,
new producing relations are'not only emerging from the
introduction of of the new organization of work in peasant
working or our producing cooperatives, but they are also
necessarily making themselves manifest in our factories and
workshops which are managed directly by our workers.
Even in the'Communist Manifest", Marx and Engels told us
that the old bourgeois society will give room to the form-
ation of societies of direct producers, and that the free'
development of each individual should be a basic prerequisite
for promotion of community.
In the old or-fanization of work in peasant working r --t4
cooperatives, farmers - their members,- have not actually had
much personal freedom. It is a fact that they often consider-
ed their cooperative farmsetead as sometAing belonging to
someone else; their work as something enforced upon them,
and the only thing they considered as their own were trope
and other things found on their own small personal farms.
Consequently, the initiative of producers, which was fading
away, was taken over by individual leaders. They planned
production, assigned jobs and supervised performance. Under
such an organization of work, cooperative members dodged
their responsibilities and conseruently reduced their other-
wise low production.
. There is a characteristic tendency of avoiding to make
allocations for sinking funds, and of treglecting cooperative
property and inventory. . ? ??
Such an attitude towards Production comes. as a: result,
erroneously established producing,relations for immediate
producers-believe that they are notYouners of means of pro-
duction and finished products , while that kind of organizatic
of work gave them no possibility to realize that their exist-
ence is closely linked with the development of their co-_
operative farmsteads. They generally believed that they were
working for someone else, while their conceptions were,
supported by the external manifestation of that organization
of work, because they have been obliged to report at a
certain time to their group leaders without even knowing
in advance what they will do during that day. They could not
leave a job without reporting to their group leaders, and
all in all, because of such an organization of work, pro-
ducers felt that they are not sufficiently free in their
actions as free citizens should be.
As a counterbalance to the basic cooperative masses, there
are leading cooperative cadres. Faced with members who are
displaying only a slight interest in their work, these people
were often rude to them; they recurred to fines expressed in
reduction of their man-days and in other economic measures.
Thus, we are witnessing establishment of relations similar
to those existing in capitalism and even in feudalism. Under
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freedom is an unconceivable thin, while the results should
not differ from those attain,3d by kelkhoSes in the USSR.
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Just because of such producing relations in the USSR, the
main eMployer, that is, the CC of the CPS(b), is obliged to
pass at each of its sessipns various provisions with regard
to the punitive measures and to the on.anizational forms
leading to the strengthening of working discipline and
forcina kolkhose members to work.
In our new organization of 'work, we are paying the greatest
attention to the euestion of discussing all these problems ?
with cooperative members on a broad scale. At such discussions,
farmers are acquainted with advantages of the cooperative
over individual system of farming. Such explanations are not
mere voiitical discussions or sujFestions on necessity of
building 'socialism, No, they are discussing there matters on
the basis of definitely established accounts and analyses of
cooperative farmsteads.. Such accounts we are able to establish
only because we are rid of the bureaucratic method of managing
our economy and of the old method of husbanding.
The old method could not convince cooperative members
that it is more profitable for them to cultivate cooperative
than individual farms, because no one could'hava,made an?
account on the baisis of remuneration according to man-days
which would show them what would be their, share of profits
in their cooperative after 12 months. Discuasions are not
different. One'may estimate yields per hectare, compare
incomes on cooperative and individual farms, and show in,,
an inequivocable way that the allocations of the part of
proceeds obtained from surplus production for provision of
new means Promote cooperative farmsteads and permit co-
operative members to get higher remuneration; They are now
In position to realize things of which they only dreamt on
their individual farms. P,y gradually introducing moderm ?
implements, their work will bo 'less srenous for them. And,
finally', one can now arrive at an exact comparison o.f equal
exertions on individual andooperative farmSteads. 'Such a
comparison will elavs sl,ow one that earnings of cooperative
members for given efforts will be far greater than those of
individual farmers, because the work in a cooperative is
more prOductive than that done on individual farms.
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'Furthermore, the acc-unt of all the households in'the el-operative
is calculated with the heln of all the members of the ce-sperative..
Having this account the co-operative community then disnoses with the
analysis of production expenses, fixes the amount that will be set
aside for enriching the co-operative, immediately knows how much will
have to be paid for social centributien and hew much remains for paying
the wages of the co-operative members. When the amount needed for
wages is known it is then valued as to whether or not the wages will
be higher or lower than the earnings by the private peasant, 1-1 when
the co-operative members are confident that their earnings are higher
than those in the orivate sectors, this is already a great success
Lfter this the total sum of the possible earnings must then be
classified. This job demands special attention. Because;as is known
earnings are not distributed to the co-operative members according to
wages or categories of individual jobs, but a certain sum is designated'
for individual branches production, out of which are paid prflduetion
costs for Planned articles in the related branch. According to the
intensity of work in the co-operative the amount of work necessary for
the given production in each branch is used as a basis for this dis-
tribution. The study of nr-fits is given Precedence an4 so the guiding
brincirle is profitable prductien.
The total amount of mediums set aside for the ex-ense fund must be
distributed ageerding to pre..iuctien branches and if the individual
branch is large then the distribution is further carried out according
to small productive plots (ns for example in farming). Distributi)n,
in the final sense, is carried out in such a way that similar Jobs are
similarily paid, and on the ethr hand, for the designated exPense fund
A certain quantity of material goods must be produced.
In order that the am(unt of the wage fund be accurately distributed
in advance this phase ,f the work in the new organisation of work is
very interesting. Now the co-operative members calculate their own
accounts: For every branch of production and for every plot they know
how much must be produced and they know how many mediums they will ;et.
'or the designated production, and on.this basis they calculate their
Accounts. We had a very interesting example of this at the time the
strict economic system was introduced in the peasant working ce-
eberative "Keca 7ep'vic" in Dubiea. Here individual groups of co-
operative meMbers. calculated for 10-14 days. the n ssibilities'of
pr-Auction and eallains for individual co-operative plots and for
planned branches of preducti-n. The establishment of this ergani-
Batien of work aroused a great interest in nreducti-n. Th-se
operative
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operativ2 members who did net Tive any th,utt t) c -enorative prrprty
previously have now started tr make celculati ,ns about the entire co-
erative. They have started to look around f )r the most interesting
place in the co-operative to work and to consider the Problem of whether
Aemeone else in the co-operative is living at their expense. New when
the members of the co--neratives make their calculations they are putting
Into them that which no economist or agronomist can put; their knowledge
of the fields, their detailed knowledge of the quality rf land. After
WIL4ting such calculations things hanpen which wore ?expected to hannen,
that more groups of ce-enerative members ere -Hented to th6 same
plot of land although nrelucti 'n on these perc]ls f land taken as a
whole is still unprefitable. Juch cases shin!' that the entire sum of
;he wages fund has not been distributed quite nr,Perly, that in s-me
Tlaces the work is easier and earnings bigger. Naturally this demands
correction of the wage fund which would arouse greater interest for
on the collective farm.
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Organisation is further carriedoen? ,in individual groups. The
0,-,operatj.ve, groups classify their wage PundPind.epodenly withnut
.any set slassification rules or provisions, - accerdinOtotnividual
jobs and oloerationson their land'Uocks. .This i do'n'e insuch-a,vay
se as to assure an equal interest fnr all jobs within the grnuo. , For
this purpose the groups hive made it a precise to keep one part ef
the wage fund 88 ti reserve for supplementary payment's for jobs which, the
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co-operative memberd fermerly hesitated to accept;
In this manner all of the work enerations aod their payments are
os$ured today. Work in the.co-enerative 5.5 no lenger based on the
'lour or on the day but it is based on the idea of.c)mpleting the en-
crete work on the designated area of land. Now the co-operative Members
can accompliSh their work according to agro-technical time neriods and
in the most favourable manner& ?On individual jobs (mewing, harvesting,
ploughing) etc.) they use the members of their hAisehold, and on easier
jobs (gathering hay, weeding, garden work poultry work) they can employ
physically weak personnel women old men and similar.
The co-operative members are a let m-re independent tedav. There
are no longer any roll calls and assignments to work every merning, the
individual knows best what must be done. Interest in production and in
work is constantly increasing because earnings are paid immediately
upon completion of the work. Besides this, wage payments for comnleted
jobs no longer depend on some co-operative elerk, for as I said, every
eo-operative group knows exactly hew much er the wage fund goes towards
its amein of production and they knew how this ameunt is classified
Per individual ,Iebs. As soon as a job is completed, the co-operative
members know how much they are entitled to and they then draw a corres-
ponding sum of money from their account (they receive the balance of thAr
earnings when they deliver the individual products to the co-operative
w4rehouse). Under such circumstances the earnings of the co-operative
members no longer depend on the will of the individuals but on their
work. There are no longer such thigs as existed in the 'trudodanl system
when someone could, arbitrarily add or deduct 'trudodans'. The co-
operative member no longer works without knowing what he earnel for that
day, just as there no longer exist possibilities by which he may earn
Itrudodans( on useless jobs and thereby deprive ethers of earnings who
have worked on productive jobs. All of this is no longer pnssible
because normal relations have been established and the expinitation of
man is no longer nessible.
I tried to present our new organisation of work to you in detail
ati in as much as.it was nossible in a practical way, and I hoe.hat
ail tnat was mentienea very clearly outlines tne pr auetinn relat.ions
which are necessarily being developed in such an crganisatien of work. .
In the first place, I think that both forms of socialistic production
relations: social production and social distribution are quite ebvious.
It is very clear to see that one producer is connected to another in
the chain of production, just as it is impossible for any one infivi. dual
to appropriate the results ?ef another man's work.
The outward Tanifestation of social work is expressed by the fat
that, for example, the farmers know that their fields will produce
better yields if the cattlemen ship more and better quality fertiliser"
to them and for this reason the farmers carefully follow the work eX tih.e
cattlemen. They also know that their fields will give better yieelols
if the tractors arrive on time and plough their fields very well and
for this reason they carefully check and control the work of the
.tractor eperators. On the other hand the cattlemen knew that their
incomes depend en whether or not the fodder will be produced acc:crding
to the plan and whether it will be loetterr prepared. They watch
whether or not the farmers mow the grass on time, whether they properly
dry the hay and hew well they handle silage, etc. Furthennerelsrocial
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production and, its outward manif.estati n b)il down to social control,
and now members who formerly were disinterested in production are
be-
coming very active co-operative memberswho are crnscious of nrnduction
and who guard co-operative *pr-perty as if. it was their very own. ,
Stealing from co-operative fields is no longer a theft of some
stranger's property whose existence did not interest the co-onerative
members; the shortage of pr-)ducts from co-operative fields hurts the
co-operative groups whose earnings are based )n the amount of products
they deliver to the co-operative wareh-,uses. As a result of this, in
place of only a number of guardians wh- were chiefly the co-operative
leaders, hundPeds and th ,usands. of them are being created and they
protect co-operative property and every one of them pro-4ects the results
of their werk?
The co-operative mem.Dr who undertook the socia,. obligation that for
a said amount of the wage funihe would produce a certain amount of
pr-ducts conducts himsif altogether differently than the co-operative
member who gets a certain wage for his work and whose interest in'the
job he is doing ends the moment he drops the tools from his hands.
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Past experience in introduction of thc strict economy syitem
n roatia.
Q1 What other experiences have been gained in introduction
of the new organisation of work in the Peasant Working CoOperatives ?
A: There is a lot more to, be said. In the first place,those
Comrades who are engaged on introduction of the new organisation
of work should not think that this can be done in a Cooperative
in 10 to 14 days.
Furtherlone should realize that the making of calculations
is the easier part of the job which is followed by a more difficult
onetand that is detection of the old production relations and a
persistent Struggle for their complete liquidation.and replacement
by new ones. This second phase-when the members of the Cooperative
have themselves make the calculations,when they have to conduct
broad discussions,realistic and concrete discussions--is much more
diffj.cult,and it is particularly important and demands the most
time. Ideas concerning managment of the Cooperative have to be
exchange here. A really revolutionary change of turning those
Cooperatives which contain State-capitalistic and feudal elements
in themselves into progressive socialist enterprises has to be
done here. Where this does not succeed, we shall not achieve
anything in the Cooperative and in that case the calculations
of profitability will not be of any use to us and the result will
be that in the respective Cooperative things will remain just as
they were.
One should -know that the new organisation of work demands
broad discussions in every direction. The members of the Cooperatives
often "stick to the old" and defend the old methods of work;they
are not inclined to undertake certain risks which every members
of the Cooperative should undertake as -a direct producer and partner
in the Cooperative.
At the aame time this is a strugf71e againtt variousnenemies,
ranging from those who have been basing their lives upon
exploitation of others and all the way along the line up to
the political enemies who see that the new organisation of work
ties the peasants--members of the Cooperatives -- to the
Cooperatives, and who see that this means a consolidation of
the cooperative organisation and consequently a victory, for
socialism in the countryside. All the enemies are quickly
realizing this and are waging an actiVe strugg,le against our new
measures. .For this reason it is important that the Party
organisations should,through daily meetingslfollow up the events
in step. The new organisation of work should be explained to
the members of the Cooperatives through. the managments of the
Cooperatives,through the Party organisations and through the
People's Front organisations;the hostile propagandd should not
be allowed to gain ground for a single moment.
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Q: What,in your opinion,are the most important economic
conclusions_msilting from the new organisation of work ?
A: In the first place I should like to emphasize the fact
that we have ascertained by detailed analysis that a shortage
of labour force does not exist in the Peasant Working Cooperatives
but on the contrary that there is a perceptible surplus. On the
basis of this fact we are,in introducing the new organisation
of work,making.two production plans: one with the hitherto
intensiveness of production which requires less labour force,
and another one with a greater intensiveness of production which
needs more labour force. We are applying the first plan in the
case where in a Cooperative there are such members who are not
interested in production. We do not count on such people,and
the zealous members of the Cooperatives also don't like to work
with them. We give them time to think over and decide. In those
Cooperatives where we have introduced the new organisation of
work, there is no more chance for the loafers to do nothing and
to live on the properties of thp? Cooperatives by appropriating
other peoples's things and by stealing. Under the old organisation
of work, every member of a Cooperative was able to use the
transportation vehicles of the Cooperative for almost nothingland
the food was often divided by the number of persons: Many of the'
members of the Cooperatives succeeded in getting from the
Cooperative food for their households--either on account of sickness
in the family or on account of old age; they sueceeded tn dode;ing
wont in various ways and at the same time appropriating the'
property of the Cooperative. This is no longer possible because
in a Cooperative the transportation and other vehicles are used
on the basis of economic prices and no more food and other products
are divided among the members of the Cooperatives. Everythihg is
bought for ready cash,also at economic prices,and so individual
members can stay out only for a .short time--until they feel that
they cannot live without working. When such individuals decide
to work in the Cooperative.,? they are not included in the already
formed working groups. Production ,then intensified according
to the number of them who have reported for work,and so they are.
working on new useful jobs which enable them to earn their normal
amount and to make, the corresponding contribution to the accumulation
fund of the Cooperative4
consider this to be an important experience in aprlication
of the new organisation of work.
Further, we have ascertained that a number of Cooperative
have too many.hauling teams. According to our calculations, one
hauling team tcan work 250 days in a year--working on the fileds
belonging to the Cooperative or working on the plots af land
belonging to individual members of the Cooperative("Okucnica"-
homestead)r- and we have discovered that a good many of the hauling
teams of the Cooperatives are hardly making 100 useful working days
in a year, This means that in each of such Cooperatives, one half
of the hauling teams is excess. Taking that one hauling team
costs the Co)perative 100,000 to 150,000 Dinars a year, it means
that in those Cooperatives which have- 50 excess hauling teams the
expenses amount to 5,000,000 to 7,000,000 Dinars annually--and this
reduces the earnings of the members of the Cooperative and the
accumulation fund of the Cooperative by the same amount. This often
is the cause of loss in a Cooperative.
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Another thi4 Which we have discovered in introduction
of the new Organisation 'of work is that a number of Cooperatives
have bought 'unnecessary 'quantities of mechanized implements.
Thus2for exaplepthe Peasant Working Cooperative "Kcca'PoPovic"
in Dubica has b)ught 7 tractors while it needs only 4. The
Peasant Working Cooperatiye "Bblja Buducnost"(.Better Future-Ed)
in Brodjanci also has 7 tractors, whilelin my opiniontit does
not need more than 3 or 4. Unnecessary tractors reduce the
possibility of work for the necessary tractors--all the tractors
- are working, and none is sufficiently utilized. In all such cases
regular losses on tractors can be ascertained.
I should also mention the fact that,in the mainlour
mechanization is being poorly' utilized, Thus ,forexamplelwe have
a few dozens of first-class ANSALDO tractors. The tractors,which
can pull six-gange ploughs,are used to pull three-gang e ploughs.
It is obvious that this is an enormous loss in the process of
production. We have very few other machines .which can be hooked
to tractors,so that the tractors are uied only for ploughing.
All these shortcomings are being uncovered now and it is
necessary to Pliminate them.
Furthermore2it is n)w being established that in some cases
the "wealth" of the Cooperative had in fact been only an illusion
of the members of the Cooperative. It is so in the cases when
"wealth" is measured by the number of horses,traetors,and big
objects etc,while it can be truly said that excess horses or
tractors are a burden rather than an asset to a Cooperative. Large
and uneconomical buildings are no good because keeping of
livestock in them is very expensive--they cost more than the
livestock produced in them is worth.
All these are experianc-ed gained in introduction of the new
:organisation of work, .
At the Plenary Session of the CC CP Croatia you spoke about
the existance of possibilities for increasing livestock breeding
and poultry rasing after introduction of the strict economy system.
,Can you tells us something more about this subject ?
A: It is quite so. Many housewives and old men cannot leave
their blames. but are willing to work and are seeking possibility
for that. Thinking about this ,we have come to the conclusion
that a Cooperative,after introducing the strict economy system,
'could make contracts with individual households in the Cooperative
to keep in their stables or yards a fixed number of livestock or
poultry belonging to the Cooperative. We have already tried this
and the result has been that very soon some of the Cooperatives
have doubled their livestock fund,
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ThiSJis useful for both the Cooperative and the
indiVidOlimembers of the Cooperative. Tery often a Cooperative
cannot.iricrease.its livestock fund without making new investments
(building new stables). The members of the Cooperatives can,
after finishing their work in the 'filedS,look after livestock
belonging to the Cooperative and thus earn more. Consequently,
it is in.the interest of both the Cooperatives and their 'members
to .carry on this system. ?
It is the same case with the poultry belonging to the .
Cooperatives. In addition to thistwe haVe introduced the practice
of giving to the households plots of land their their homes
where they can grow various vegetables. Good vegetable seeds are
thus obtained.
All this shows that the new organisation of work gives
us possibilities for increasing production by the Cooperatives
and thereby also improving the welfare of the members of the
Cooperatives as a whole.
(BORBA Jan.9,1952.)
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PROPOSED SOCIAL PLAN FOR CRAOTIA WILL BE DISCUSSED IN DETAIL
AFTER THE 2nth-JANUARY-
(Zagreb, O'th Jnnuary)
Chief Office for Ilan and Record-keeping, in co-operation with
councils which administer the economy of the Republic, will draw till
the 20th of January the draft Social Plan, which will then be brought
for wide discussion in people's 'committees, enterprises and before
eitizen's conferences. ?
The proposed Social Plan will contain social proportions for
all economic branches:. indutry and trades,agriculture and forestry,
internal wholesale and retail trade, foreign trade, catering and
tourism, building industry and communal affairs, transport and
coastal navigation. In determining proportions in this draft,
specific conditions of economy in Croatia will be taken into
account, so that in some of its columns the draft will contain
studious reniarks to the Federal Social Plan.
Following the draft of the Republican Plan, the draft Social
Plans for people's committees and individual anterpriese will be
drawn insimilar way.
(BORBA,H10 January. 1952)
' -MANOEUVRES OF ITALIAN COMINFORMISTS WITH CONGRESS OF .ITALIA
RIS NS?-:
The Second National Congress of the Italian partisans who
to*ght abroad is to take place in Siena on the 28th of January.
The Congress will be attended by about 200 delegates which the
Communist Party of Italy thoroughly chose among 23,0nn Italian
partisans. Commanders of the best known Italian partisan units
WilI not attend the Congress. Commander and Commissar of the
partisan division "Italia", which fought in Yugoslav4, 'Giuseppe.
Mrs 'd Carlo Cutolo, Commander of the "Garibaldi" division
"Ravnik, Vaido Magnani and Silvani, who commanded large partisan
units, rejected to take part in the work of the Uongresd, considering
that the Congress is a tool of Italian Cominformists and ttlat'iit
will propagate the ends of Soviet foreign policy.
The First Congress of Italian partisans was held'Atwo years
ago. Violent anti-Yugoslav campaign conducted by the organizers
of the Congress from the ranks of the Italian Communist Part.k,..
failed owing to the attitude of former ,zoldiers and commanders,
who fought Fascism in Yugoslavia. They hav'e unmasked the slanderous
campaign against the Yugoslav Army and Yugoslav partisan units.
''(POLITIkA, 11 January2)
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SHORTSIGHTEDNESS OF SOMETHING ELSE
One meets from time to time ttDugh rarer nowadays - people
with whom one speaks and after a while dne comes to think, if
this particular person has slept through the last ten--years
and is not conscious of events and changes which have taken place
and - one feels like telling him - wake up man Then there are
men who did not gain any experience in the bygone years or - perhaps
- do nat wish to recognise this experience ?
One conceives similar ideas ' F. in one's mind when one reads
through': the article written by former USA ambassador in former
Yugoslavia Mr.Arthur Bliss-Lane and published in the American weekly
magazine Saturdy EveninD. Post The essence of this article by the
former ambassador is a regardless and baseless criticism of the
official American policy toward present Yugoslavia, a policy which
enjoys the support of American citizens.14.. Bliss-Lane emphasizes
that he was always antagonistic to a policy of giving help to Yugo-,
slavia in any form whatsoever ( except in +.1-^ case of the drought )
and that such a policy is a " calculated risk " to the USA. He
demands that a stop should be put to this policy, and as the Wteic
reason for his attitude, he underlines only one thing : Yugoslavia
is a " communist country " in which " there is no democracy " of
course and similar. In short : Yugoslavia, because she has not chosen
its internal order according to the tastes of Mr.Bliss-Lets regard-
less to all other conditions, and for this sole and exclusive reason
should hot be given either economic or military aid 1 and - con-
sequently - Yugoslavia should not be helped in strenghtening her de-
fensive potential, namely her capacity to resist successf11117 the
potential aggressor to whose pressure she has been exposed for years.
On the whole this is the logic by which Mr. Bliss-Lane expresses all
his points of view.
Let us see how the things stand in fact. If we set aside all that
which in the newsman's jargon is called " dressing " and take the
essenee of this article,that which is vital, that which the article
is meant to expressl then it is : I demand you to stop further akd to
Yugoslavia 1 This is demanded at the moment, when it is recognised
generally in the West and particularily-An the USA, that this country
- which is the pillar of Peace in the Balkans - should be helped,
beeause this demand the joint interests of the struggle against
aggression in the framework of the 'United Nations. Mr. Bliss-Lape
boils the whole discussion to some so called ideological terrain, but
is in fact only an attempt to veil the problemIto present things in
a way which might succeed with some Americansto whom the word
"'commtntst " ( and in the USA some attempt to identify the word
" communist" with - Soviet imperialism ) awakens resistance and un-
easiness. But that which remains, that which is most essential, lies
In the fact that Mr.Bliss-,Lane. recommend:- that " risks " should not
be taken with that which contributes to the strenghtening of the de-
fensive potential of Yugoslavia..
It is hard to define, how ebilla looking at things - the least said
is shortsighted and how little it takes into account the real situation
and circumstances, certain mutual interests of all those who are
unanimous ( united ) on one question : to resist - together and with
all strenght but also individually with maximum energy - the aggressor,
Let it be so,- the Americans help us, but do we not help them and all
those who are striving to defend peace through resisting aggressive
pressure coming from the East ? Yugoslavia has already shown on many
occasions that she knows how to defend her independence and freedom,
Practically Yugoslavia is to-day resisting actively aggression. Can one
personito whom the interests of Peace areYabote all, be indifferent
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if Yugoslavia should be still more capable for defence and its
both economic and military potential still greater ? - Do waist
really " ideoloZieal " reasons by Which' th-1,8 ttttde ean be
fed whipmh means ih its esSence- the weak I
ng of the Peace front
and' defehOS;fxem aggression from the East ? Did Mr. Bliss-Lane,
thinkebout this or not, or for example, that thjo ,nbjectivel7
may h? wish this or not, drives the water onto the mill of Moscow ?
And what 'does otherwise T:rtan to weaken the one who is preparing for
defence in case of attack, than., helping the one who is preparing to
attack?'.
After all, it is vey symptomatic that similar tendencies have
gained publicity in the columns of the Mancl-e,-ter Guardian only the
" dressing"was different, The.millAgry.vorrespondent of this newspaper
published from Belgrade an article a short time ago in which,he stressed
that it would be " dangerous " and " wrong " to furnish Yugoslavia
with heavy armament, and explained this attitude with all sorts of
military " arguments ". When our public optC:on reacted with revolt
to this article the writer published another article a few days ago
in which he affirmed the same things as in the previous article ,He is
no doubt a persistent man. This is what he proves : Yugoslavia should
not be given heavy armament / because she would not know supposedly
how use it. It is quite unnecessary to .n:217 v,:o.saoh nonsense, at
least to their"military" aspect, for the simple reason because these
" arguments " are ridiculous and illogic, because our Army - when
she was much worst trained - nullified them a long time ago. It is
an extremely well-known fact and of this The Manchester Guradian
correspondent is anyhow well aware aflthat our Army is capable and how
to resiorti lu.-,orsitully the aggressor.
This, as well as we, the " military " correspondent of this paper
knows.And yet he writes that we should not be given heavy armament
By what motives is he inspired ? Certainly not ;:.7 111-ittentiozon and
particularily friendly ones towards our country., At least it is diffi?
tult, partieularily if one takes into consideration, that he again
insists on these " arguments " to believe the contra..;.y? It is more
probable that this is the echo of certain conceptions which do not
take into account real circumstances, which do not know to differen-
tiate between wishes, hopes and realities? Because, can the Manchester
Guardian's_ ',,mf:l_itary " correspondent think that we cannot comprehend
t he means by recommending us to withdraw to the mountains and there
shed blood; does he think that this would be the way that later others
MightAecide about our fate ? But does he rct perceive ( or wishes not
to so ) that with his attitude he helps directly the enemy not only
of Yugoslavia, but of his own country and -eace in general ?
This is a shortsighted policy. And is it only shortsighted.;.,?
Justifiably one can say : is it only shortsightedness or something
more than that ?
We do not affirm that there exists a direct connection between the
article by former 2.10-,..Lan ambassador in Belgrade and the present
" military " -AA7cho Gtardian'correspondent in Belgrade, Very far
from it,But the internal, logical connection between these two articles
does exist; exists objectively. We are pointing out this occurrence as
something which contradicts deepIk,- the basic strivings of the American
and British peoples, the official policy of their governmentsIbilttithis
the echo-s ignoble and obscure- of conceptions of some people and el:Als;
who cannot perhaps understand that the times are changing, They do not
conceive or ignore the fact that there exist objectives which are
above small and selfish political aspirations or conceptions. The one
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who does-not understand this and in the .concrete case pleads
against help to a country who defends not only herself but tlarmughsit
Peace also as well as the USA and Great Britain - stands Unintent,io..
pally or intentionally on the positions e .7)tent1onal aggressors,
In the Interests of Peace this must be said openly and loudly.
Signed : J.
( POLITIKA January 10, 1952 ).
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LETTER FROY LONDON: THE BRITISH PRESS ON THE RESULTS OF WA3HINGTON
(London, 10th January)
The meeting Of the two leading -festern statesmen was followed in
Britain with. particular attention. However much one always stresses
treditf,nr,1 rriendship with America there are many world problems
upon which both London and Washington look from different angles,
The alifrt,observers of international events were most interested in
what measure a better understanding will be reached I* personal talks
between the two statesmen.
If in the columns of the British press and in comments amk)ngst
newspapermen one should seek an answer to this question, it comes out
that most cf them agree more or less that the statement which has been
given out after the Washington talks is encouraging. According to
this statement the use-of bases in Great Britain in case of necessity
"will be a matter of mutual decision by the British and American
Governments": both governments "will continue to give full support to
the efforts of setting up a European defensive community"; as far as
the Near East is concerned there is "a full identity of pints of view";
in the Far East "broad harmony"; in negotiations concerning raw
materials "good progress has been made", and in discussion concerning
a common rifleonneither of the two countries considers it sensible
that in these critical times momentary steps be taken to change the
rifle": and finally concerning the Atlantic Command "it is still
being discussed".
But ag the commentators strive to discover also practical mean lea,g
for these- harmonious phrases it comes out that the Washington state-
ment should not be taken as too-encouraging. It is evident that the
Far East is covered with the broadest phrase and in connection with
this the Daily Telegraph demands "Dbes this mean that both the
countries have agreed to continue their different viewsconcorning the
recognition of China and Formosa? If it is so in what consists the
greater harmony than it was before".
However, it seems that the English are mostly worried about the
situation of raw materials, particularly in regard to steel. Although
the momentary British lack of steel amounts only to 1.5% of the total
American production - the USA produces 100 million tons rarly,
Britain 15 million tons, some are doubtful about the fact whether the
USA would be capable of putting aside this quantity for her Ally, the
moreso because the USA also feels the lack of steel, because American
armament swallows up 50% of the American steel production.
And above all through the columns ?of the British res rms tp,
the fore the uncertainty, in regard to the political situation of the
USA 'prior to the new presidential elections and more or less one
senses the question if the attitude of the USA will have the same
character towards Europe after these elections.
According to the Times the British people consider as Churchill's
real results.Pbtained in Washington in the first place that "Churchill
has convinced the Government of the USA that the British support of the
European Army must come from outside". So the Britons thitk,that the
direct participation of BBritish military units in the European Army
has been taken off the agenda. Observers here consider it as
important that Churchill has most probably succeeded in his attempts
that the voice of Britain should be more listened tb on the-other side
of the ocean because the enormous volume of American armament - the
production in this field was in the past year three times greater than
in 1950, and the sum of 16 billion dollars, which was spent in 1951,
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"brings in its wake the answer and American friends as well as their
enemies must ask themselves how it will be used" - comments Time.
That enftpart of the statement was particularly well received in
which it is said that the Atlantic community is not built"oply -for
momentary defence but for furtifer progress". The British commen-
tators interpret this as the American confirmation that the co-opera-
tion in the defence of Europe will be of first class importance and
that one sees in it a better 'American understanding for "the-ola
world", and while understanding grows there is a basis for n firmer
alliance This seems to be the general echo in the press.
(Sd.) M.RADOICIC
(POLITIKA 11th January, 1952).
US REQUESTS US3R TO RETURN BOATS
(Washington, 10th January)
iovietUijinf reports Etc; sr.YaintFtTeAll
6,6isgraigxoNirepteha.s n,ain recueted the
Ub placed at tne
disposal of the USSR.
In the Note which the US Minister of Foreign Affairs, 'Jean
Acheson, addressed to Aleksander ?anluskin, Joviat Ambassador in
,,Jashington, the US requests the :)oviet Union to return the boats or
to admit the right of the International Court to consider this Problem.
(.70LITIKA 4 11th January, 1952)..
NOVOCi,TION ON PHE MURA
(Novi Sad, 10th January)
Members of the Hungarian national ilinority in Novi Jed held a.
protest meeting this evening at which they called on the Hungarian
government to withdraw from the island in the Mura their armed forces
which are illegally installed on this piece of Yugoslav territory.
The meeting despatched to the Federal government a telegram in
which members of'the Hungarian national -linority declared their resent-
ment concerning this aggressive and hostile act of the Hungarian Govern-
nent.
(-OLITIKA -.11th January, 19524
TELEGRANS1 TO COMRADE KARDELJ FROM HUN'ILRIAN3 FROM THE P,ARCKATN OF 'OL
Hungarians froni the Barcka. town of Mol hve held a conference .at
which many economic and political miestions were discussed. Partici-
ants in the conference most sharply condemnd the actioti Qf the
Hungarian /overnment by which frontier guards have occupied a Iugslav
island in the Aiver Oura. In the telegram which the conference
addressed to the Vice-President of the Grnvernaent- and Minister of.
Foreign Affairs, Edvard Kardelj, the Hungarians from, Mel said 'This
aggressive action of the Hungarian government is directed against -peace
and even more strengthens the justifiable disquiet of Hungarian workers.
We the Bunariens from Mola, togethr with the rest of o,ir briOers,
th people dr iugosiavie ona all'Peace-ioving people oi t'le 40
condemn the action of the Hungarian government which at the illegal
appropriation of froeign territory'.
(20LIPIK/. - 11th January, 1952).
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THE DRAGGING OUT OF NEGOTIPIlIONS IN KOREA
Six months have passed since the beginning of, negotietions in
Korea. The case-fire so far has.. not been -realised...- .Altheugh wsr
continued ?in Korea the very fact that negotiatione.have.begun had a
calming af.rect. But guring ttleepe:s:t Six months this opanion has. changed
and the opinion prevails that it wfll b necessary to make great .efforts
and that it will take a long time to set up peace in, Korea.,
?
If one looks at the agenda of ,the tAlks e begun in Kaesong and
continued in Pan 'Nun 'Jong one gets the impression that .the basic con-
flicting items have been put aside and that the remaining questions
.coUld be 'solved in a' few: hoU14.s. ' After reachin& an -agreement on the
' main problem - concerning the demarcation line for the cease fire it
seems that the truce was near at hand. Yet in spite of that 'e,he nego-
tiations continued for week e although the two remaining conflicting
items are qimulteneously discussed in two Sub-Committees. This is the
problem- of the controleof the arMisti,ce andetne .exchange of prisoners
of war. Slowness is the characteristic of this 66hfeeoh-06 'Which will
enter into, the history of wars as one of the longest truce ' parleys..
Thiseslowneeeewould' not disturb anybody if . after .a .six months prolongation
the Oospects .of success would be, clearer than presented by the last two
sessions. ?
?
The trude practically dePends' on the fact . of whether Kobla will
be ensured that 'e : aggression will not be repeated...The.% after
suppressing aggression coming from North Korea, demand that-the opposing
- side's should accept -reasonable artistice- conditiona. However, the ?
North Korean and bhinoae- delegations during the negotiations hitherto,
attempted persistently to present themselves as a , side: which, has the
- right, to: dictate, , to ;flake' conditions end fOroa, oonoes4ons e in spite of
the . fa'ct that this , 'side was ' ?' the aggressor,whQ has disturbed
peace and who must bear the 'conse,quences. Charactriti-c is the
writing of .the official Chinese TgenCy*which ih the last few days
demanded that the ,UN 'should "recognise the equilibrium of. military -
forces!' :in Korea. This demand, as well he the tore of the Chinese
press, particularly that of the PeoiiieS daily and the speech of the
' Chinese commander in Korea, point out that Peking'at this moment
conceives in these negotiations only a favourable occasion to obtain
better and firmer positions than it had at the beginning of the negot-
ietions. Therefore the negotiations seem . endless. Thqemoment a
conflicting problem is nearing solution, the Chinese-North Korean
delegation puts out another - and this geme looks like a hundred-headed
Hydra who grows anew head each time one is severed. This prolongation
is in the interests of behind the scerb, currents which exist North of
the 38th parallel North of the River Yalty and North of the Manchurian
-
Soviet frontier, currents which have not yet settled their mutual
eccountz and arrangements concerning prestige and spheres of influence
in tne _o'er est.
There are signs that these negotiations between Moscow and Peking
are not running smoothly. The lest cause for such opinion was given by
Vishinsky in Paris when he demanded recently from the UN to bring up the
Korean problem before the Security Council. In that case the USSR would
again take a more nrominent pert in the solution of the Korean problem
bind ctuld use also it,s v-'11;r ilthough this manoeuvre hes failed it has
been rociced that Loscoh ul'ies to take the place so far held by Peking
also in the direct solution of the Korean crisis.
This, however, does not still mean that the negotiations are
nearing an end. Between tha three possible solutions the greatest
-orospects are for the continuation and prolongation of negotiations. 1.
By presenting and inventing new confli e.ing items Moscow and Peking
strive to keep the tension until in the developtene Of the international
situation do not appear some new moments which would introduce into the
Korean problem some new details. Under such conditions tl-e role of the
UN is confirmed,in a sensible and patient discovery of a solution to e
cease-fire lies the only way that the TIN, after supressing the armed
pressure of the aggressor? slior.rass 21.147 A iso his diplomatic combina-
tions and to discourage him ii.. ne wisn to a gaIn recourse to arms,
again, 3d.) B.DIKIO
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TRE3T!;NTATIVE OF PHE 14ORLD COUNCIL OF CHURCHES IN BELGRAD:1;
Dr.Vesser Tuft, General Jecretnry of the World Council of Churches
in Geneva and Dr.Robert Tobias, anoth-:r sedretnry of the.snmd body,
have arrived,in Belgrade. They have tome to visitthe Serbian
Orthodox and Evangelical Churches in our country.
The guests were met at Zemun airfield by Mr.lerman, a Bishop of
the .3erbian Orthodox Church, attached to the staff of the Patriarchate.
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Dr.Dusan qlumac, Professo of the Theological: C011ege, and Dr.Nikola
Vukevic.
OLITIKk - 11th January, 1952).
REPRESENTATIVES OF AU3TRI,,t 1UGOLAVIA AND GERMANY HOLD CONFERENCE ON
RIVER NiAVIGLTION
In Belgrade yesterday, in the presence of Austrian, German and
Yugoslav experts on river navigation, the work of the first post-war
international conference on Danube river navigation began. At this
conference many pressing questions will be decided in connection with
the renewal of the co-operation and friendly relations which
traditionally exist between those who sail -n the Danube.'
At this Belgrade conference which is Of very great economic import-
ance, the representatives of the three Danube-countries will consider
the present situation on the Danube and will come to useful and con-
structive decisions which will provide a basis for the further advance-
ment and development of Danube traffic. In the first. niece this
conferende is expected to organise traffic which, in tie new conditions
on the Danubian ifternational 'waterway, will speed up the exchange of
goods and the renewal of the economy of these countries, ruined during
the war. Besiqms this, it will resolve ciuestions of tariffs,
freight regulations in river transport, as well as the nromotion of
mttual co-operation, (TafOug)
(-OLITIK'A - 11th January, 1952).
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SUMMARY -OF -THE YUGOSLAV PRESS
This Bulletin contains translations from Yugoslav newspapers and periodicals. It is intended for the use of
the participating missions and not for general Aistribution. Accuracy of the translations is not guaranteed.
STATI NTL
3rd 'January, 1952.
? P.1. Headlines of
P . 2 . Headlines of
Headlines
Headline
Headline's
Headlines
'INDEX
Borba,of the. 3rd January
Borba continued:
of -)olitika of the 3rd January .
of
Of
of
Nova Makedonija of ,the 2.8th December
Slovenski ?oroceValec of the 28th and 29th December
Nova Makedonija of the 30th December
FROM BORBA OF THE 30TH DECEMBER..
7, Extraordinary Session of,the:.7dopleJs?AaseMbly::of'the FFRY!
" - speech by Moaa Fijade and draft resolutions on economic plans
for 1952
FR,714, BLRBA F THE 2ND JANUARY
P.4. Island in the Mura (ArO.cle by Djordje Zelmanovic)
FRCM BCRBA F THE 3RD JANUARY
?P.7. Three Bulgarian lo'Tys escape t9 Yugoslavia
P.9. Regulation on the financing of building ?projects
.T.10. Sentences passed on Bulgarian spies and diversionists at Vranje
Legislative Committees of the :A FPRY will meet on 10th January
P.11 Tanjuo? denies 117 report on foreign canital ,concipaaions
? . ? 4,
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FROM 70LITIKA %,F1 THE 3RD JANUARY
F.11. Amnesties in Slovenia P, nd Montenegro
Praesidiurds 'decree concerning amnesty
', ?
P Cominformist s in Cxorizia put f )rward ant i Yugo sin v resolution in
provincial assembly
DuriatiOn of validity of Tourist Bons
ProVocation on the River Mura
ROM LJUDSKA PRAVICA OF THE 15TH DECEMBER
P.15. Problems which have already been settled (Article on Yugoslav
. attitude towards the Church)
P.1.7. The Vatican's blessing on 31ovene Salesian Monks in Argentina
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BORBA 3rd January, 1952.
P.1. At the end of the business year: insurance,?accumulation and
amoPtisation in the collectives (Editorial Jd.L,I.V.)
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New Year Good Wishos to Marshal Tito
LEGISLATIVE COMMITTEES OF THE 1E01-1,E'S ASST!]MBLY OF THE FRY WILL
MEET ON THE 10TH JANUARY
Yugoslavia has made a large contribution to the building-up of a
system of collective security (Undesignated news report from
- Paris)
Heport from Bo7ba's special corresp)ndentiabout Korea: meeting
on the 38th parallel: arrogance and "discretion" of corms.
n,ndents of Cominform press (Article by Jakob Levi from Tan Mun
Jong)
Truce in Korea: New United Command proposal for exchange of
prisoners of war. (Undesignated news report from Tan Aun Jongi
Enquiry concerning American FOWs (Undesignated news report
from Washington)
In his New Year mess,';e Kim ir Sen makes no mention of
negotiations in Tan Nun Jong (Chinese News Agency Fenyang)
P.2, Yugoslav Social 7.1an for 1952: proposal for public and nation.
wide discussion: somii explanation of the proposed plan
(Continued from Borba of the 31st -.)Pe.mber)
I-rior to the census of cattle 'beehives and poultry:. onlY correct
information will be of use.
Celebration at Yragujevac of 70th anniversary of the Serbian.
Association.ofJournalists ,
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Miners at Ber-assisted.by members of Yugoslav Tepple-s Army
*
*
DENIAL OF UP ITEM s';',NCERNING :,LLEGED YUGOSLV CON-
.
CESSION3 WITH REGAD TO FuREIGN
New proposal concerning Austrian Thace Treaty (AFF., Wtshington)
Soviet undertakin94s undermine Austrian economy- (Undesignzted news
report?from.Vienna).
Czechoslovak workers make demonstrations in Brno (The Times,
London)
lk,ossadeq meets US Ambassador, Henderson, (Reuter, Teheran)
The past from which Irredentists failed to profit (Article Sd.M.?.)
Death of Litvinov :Tass, Moscow)
Jtalin's "deep svmathy" towards Japan (FT, Tokyo)
*
Letter from Athens: constitution changes in Greece (Article by
M.Avramovic)
THEE BULGL.RIAN CHILDREN E CLE YUG_SLAVIA
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P.3. UN Assembly: Faris meeting continues its work (OF, Faris)
Discussion on collective security in the Political Committee
(Tanjug, Paris)
Special Political Committee considers the position of
Indians in the South African Union (Undesignated, Paris)
Work of the Economic Committee .(AFP, Paris)
Letter from Rome:. SoCial*Democratic.Party in 'Italy isllolding a
congress. today in Bologna (Article Sd.D.Q.) '
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F.4. REGULATION CONCERNING THE .FINANCING QF BUILDING 1WJECTS
P.5, SENTENCING OF BULGARIAN SPIES AND .DIVERSIONISTS:IN CANT
Once it was only a dream - today the.realityjArticle by Dragan
Vukobratovie on electric work ? at Ti4ibalj) ? t
PGLITI4A
PROVOCATION ON THE MRA.
'*
1,2, GORIZIA COLINFORiiISTS HAVE PUT FORWD AN ANTI,YUGOSLAV RESCUTION
IN THE P;IZVIN'CII, ASSEMBLY
DECREES CCNCERNING AMNESTIES
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.REGULTIONS A\1_2AYMENT OF BUDGET TAX
Economic significance of the latest census of .cattle
(Unsigned Article) ?
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NOVA MAKEDONIJA
December 28, 1951.
P.1, Staktement by the Macedonian Minister?President of the
Council for Trade in Goods on the results achieved
in the stabilization of the market.
P.2. Members of the collective "Bistra" recall mandate of
the president of their managerial board charged with
abuse of duty.
P.3. Decisions by the plenary meeting of the Chief Crnmittee.:
of the Macedonian People's Front;
3LOVENSKI POROCEVALEC
December 28, 1951, ;
P.1. Construction of 10 coastal freight ships by the shipyard
?Vick? Krstulovic?,
December 29, 1951.
P.O., Methods of work of the clergyman Karlo Pozun at Osilnioa.
P.5, Sentencing of disruptors of a co?operative at Mislioe.
P.3. This year's sugar production amounts to 20?000 wagon loads.
Total electric energy production in Serbia.
Radio set industry founded in Slovenia.
Our cement export this year,
Daily output of the Osijek powdered milk factory.
P.4. Biography of the national hero Milan Zabukovec?Milos.
NOVA MAKEDONIJA
December 30, 1951.
P,4. publication of new Macedonian textbooks.
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ISLAND IN THE nuRA - THE 3GENE OF THE LATE 3T Me3T SERICU3 Pl't0VOCATI,DN
BY THE HUNGAiinN C:)MINFeAMISTS
(Letinski Most, 31st December)
Our island in the Mura, which was seized by Hungarian soldiers
ten days agel-has no name. It is nameless and is not marked on many
geographic'mars., The island is not even marked on the early edited
special military maps on which every path, house? bridge and mill is
carefully marked objects far smaller and less imnortant than the
island - and maps on which ?the other parts of the Zaira are dotted with
many smaller islands; but the island locate 700 metres northwest from
the Letinski Most is not on the mans. The island is not even marked on
the precise land maps drawh ? in 1930 and which are now being presu-ved
in Trelog, and on which the property boundaries of each peasant in
Goricani is precisely marked. By de jure, the island does hot exist.
This island is not mentioned in the record of the boundary limits
of the Trianon Peace Treaty of 1920, which was the basis for the Paris
Peace Treaty of 1947 which fixed the boundary linesInor in any other
detailed record of boundary lines.
There is no official document since 1920 by which this piece of
land can be shown to belong to Hungary, Since the 1920 demarcation
there have been only two 'attempts to destroy this status - both of
these attempts have been tried by aggression; In April of 1941, when
this piece of land and other parts of Medjumurje were occupied by
Horthy's Fascists and on December 20th, 1951. This is.whot was,
written in the daily record of 'the watchtower at Letinski Most about
the second attempt:
"At 7;30 a.m. we noted a groVf) of Hungarian soldiers, numbering 5,
who crossed from their side over to our 'island",
A Premeditated Act, Long -lanned'
This insolent provocation, hitherto the most serious violation
of Yugoslavia's integrity, was very 6-carefully planned Some time ago as
can be established from the scene of the provocation. Along with the
previously destructed part of the Letinski Bridge (which was destroyed
by the Hunprian authorities, this past summer after frequent escapes by
the Hungarian citizens) there isl.judging by the standing walls, the
jutting remains of what was once a large a beautiful building. Seven-
teen days ago telis buildin- served as a home for a group road
maintenance woracers, on the 14th December the occupann or the building
were moved out, the roof removed, and then on 20th December, the day
the Hungarian soldiers seized the island, the blinding was completely
demolished. Additional proof that this provocation was premeditated is
shown by the fact that on the same day on the Hungarian side of the 800
metre wide river bank, a network of trenches with machine gun nests and
grenade launchers were dug out along the earlier reinforced barbed wire
entanglements. The island was also reinforced that same day.. M'ahine
gun nests were dug and the barrels are pointed towards our country and a
telephone system was installed. All of this could not have been done
in one day with only a handful of border guards. The provocation was
long planned - this is reflected by the circumstances under which it
was carried.out. While the Ministry of War prepared the plans,
attested by the troops and weapons on the island, the Ministry of
Foreign Affairs prepared a Note which was immeliately delivered after
the machine gun emplacements were dug.
A View from the River Bank
From our river bank you can 'see the occupied.island. It is 300
metres long and about 150 metres wide, and is very densely forested.
This ''island is separated from the mainland by a stretch of water 40
metres wide and in some places, especially on the southern tip, this
stretch of water is not wider than 30 metres. Due to heavy rains
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in the last few dayS the Mura diver raised and this increased the depth
of this stretch of wPter to about 2 metres. When the river level is no
normal the denth of this stretch of water is considerably smaller. sia
the northern tip of the island you can very plainly see how this .
stretch of water separates from the main body of the river, which
flows on the north-eastern side, between the island and the Hungarian
border, and which is a lot swifter and deeper than its branch. From
the northern tip of the island you can plainly see the difference in
the widths between the Bura River and its branch. The Mura is about
100 metres wide in this section, twice as wide as its branch. Along
the entire coast of Yugoslavia you can see the sandy banks of this
waterway. This water has been washing the Yugoslav coast, which is
considerably lower than the HUngarian coast. On this small stretch of
water there are a number of smaller islands and peninsulas in the
process of being formed. This is due to the fact that the Hungarian
coast is a lot more firmer and the force of the river is beating the
Yugoslav coast. In this manner the Mura River has flooded hundreds of
juters of land in the past 10 years.
Even without field glasses it is easy to spot the machine guns,
and it is very easy to observe the movements of the soldiers on the
island, and especially the movement of boats from the Hungarian main-
land tc) the island. If you leok very closely you can see two linea
that link the island with the Hun3ar3An mainlnnlia.? The higher me is
the telephone line and the other one is stretched out to facilitate
easier crossings for the boats. You very frequently can see officers
on the island too. Elie can also hear the sound of axes and falling
trees . the invaders are cutting down trees on the island.
Here is what a border guard has to say: "I was up in the watch-
tower and it was a very foggy morning. About 7 o'clock I noticed a man
moving about on the island, A little later, when the.fog lifted, I
recognized the man to be a Hungarian soldier and at the same time I saw
a boat, loaded with four more soldiers, land on the bank. These land-
ings took place thw whole day."
The Feople who had their Land Taken Away from Them
The inhabitants of the nearby village of Goricani went to t:he
bridge with an interpreter and asked the Hungarian soldiers to movte en.
one of the Hungarian guards then entered a guardhouse and in all
probability telephoned for instructions. He returned but did net give
any answer. Even our border guards asked the provocateurs t6 move away
from our coast but they had no intention of moving. Very arrogantly
and cynically they kept yelling that they "came for a picnic? and that
the "island was theirs" and that they. "like the Mura".
Andro Cavlek, Josip Vugrinec, Stjepan Vrazic, 'Stjepan is and
other land owner p on the island from the town of loricani were felling
trees for two days, the lath and 19th, on the island. That morning
they sould not resume their work on the island where they left their
tools.
The people of Goricani - a town .with 5,000 inhabitants and the
largest village in the 'relog district - sharply condemned this insolent
provocation which happened four kilometres from :their village. The
people who spent practically all their lives in this village working on
their fields and meadows which are located near the border - know every
inch of this land. The land on this island was bought tly a majority of
the landowners during the period from 1925 to-1930. This was arable
land and formerly belonged to Sander Andrasij, a Hungarian feudal lord.
All the present day owners have buying-selling contract documents which
were certified by the eadPstre administration of Prelog at that time:
This is further evidence that since 1920, Rungary did not have anything
to do with this land.
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Andre Cavlek, a miller, lived here on the bank near the Letinski
Most for 13 years. He owned a mill from 1926 to 1939. The work of the
mill depended on the river and for this reason he knows all of her
tendencies and behaviour. Hp said: "There was no island in 1930, and
subsequently? by degrees from year to year, this tributary stream was
created and it became wider and wider: the depth remained unknown and
today, when we went to fell trees we thought oP crossing and trans-
norting the trees with horses",
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30 metres from the spot where the Hungarian machine guns are set
up On'the island there are two large waterwheels on our coast that are
constantly revolving. These wheels never stop for they keep milling
grain which is brought td the mill by the peasants from the nearby
villages. Here, in full view of the Comin-formist aggressors, quietly
and without getting excited, they work,for,they and our border guards
who are constantly on watch know that even this provocation cannot
frighten the men who know that truth is on their side.
(Sd.) DJ(R.I.TE ZELMANVIC.
(BORBA - 2nd. January, 1952).
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THREE BULGARIAN BOYS ESCAPE TO YUGOSLAVIA
(Belrrrade, 2nd January)
Eight days ago, on the 25th of December last year, Bulgarian
boys Golo Coley, born 1936: Rasa Ivanov Rasov, born 1937: and Nikola
Stojanov, born 1937 crossed the Yugoslav-Bulgarian border at Zajecar
and reported to the Yugoslav authorities. The youngsters were
immediately given proper accomodatidns.
The boys stated that they came from the village of Izvor-
Mahala in the district of Kula, and that they are third grade students
inthe junior gymnasium. They escaped from Bulgaria because they
were mistreated by the teachers.
It is very interesting to note that as yet the Bulgarian
authorities have shown no concern about the fate of the youngsters.
The people's authority of Yugoslavia, guided by the
principles of humanity and international law, decided to return
these minors to their parents. In this respect the Ministry of
Foreign Affairs delivered a note to the Bulgarian Embassy in
Belgrade. This note proposed that the Bulgarian authorities
designate a spot on the Yugoslav*Bulgarian border, the time and
the method, which would suit their taste, for returning the
youngsters to Bulgaria.
(BORBA, 3 January 1952)
SECOND EXTRAORDINARY SESSION OF PA FPRY
THAI SP4ECH BY MOS A PIJADE
After comrade Kidric the People's Deputy Mose Pijade took
the floor. He said :
Comrades People's Deputies, you have heard the exposition
of Comrade Kidric. In my name and in the name of Comrade Josip
Hrncevic, President of the Legislative Committee of the Federal
Council, I came here to propose a draft resolution to this
authorization which was mentioned in the speech by Comrade Kidric.
This Assembly has passed in 1947 the Law on Five Year. Plan,
and its annual plans, being in the jurisdiction' of the'Government
have not been brought before the Assembly. For the first time, in
the spirit of the new Law on planned management of national economy
? the National Assembly will have to discuss ths first
Fe("aial social plan. However, we are already at tne tnreshold of
the year for which this plan is valid and the Government wantst and
we too, that this Draft plan should go first, under the provisions
of the Law which we have to-day accepted, to public discussion, to
the discussion in Natioanl Assemblies, working councils, etc.
Therefore,in front of us lies a period of three months to complete
the discussion and at the end of this period, the Assembly should
pass the Law on annual Federal ,social plan for 1952.
I would,with comrade Hrncevic submit the following:
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I. The Government of FPRY is mithorized to execute temporary,
until the Law on economic plan of FPRY for 1952 is passed, the Federal
social plan od the basis of the Draft social plan of FPRY for 1952,
which the Government handed to the National Assembly on the 28th
of December 1951.
II. The Government of FPRY will hand the Draft social plan
of FPRY for 1952, in conformity with the Art;21 of the Law on
planned management of national economy, for discussion and remarks
to national assemblies of People's Republics, to working councils
of economic associations, economic chambers and Federal and Republican
agencies of syndicate and co?operative organizations.
III. The Government of FPRY will submit the Draft law on
social plan of FPRY for 1952 to the National Assembly, that is to
committees for economic plan and finance in due course so that the
National Assembly can before the end of March 1952 accept the Law
on social plan of FPRY for 1952. In addition to the Draft law the
Government will submit necessary documentation as well as those
opinions and remarks of competent bodies and organizations which
have not accepted it.
I.V. The Draft social plan of FPRY for 1952 has to be -
published iMMediately for its publ.lo discussion. '
? ? ' . COrades, in connection with this I would like to. prapose
anoth'er' r'66olUtion, -which deals with the Draft budget. We had. up
till now, in recent years, things orderly arrange a so that the
Government. was always able at the end of the yeariubmit.,the Budget
for the next year and in December the Assembly could pass the Budget
f4r,the corning year. . This time it was not 'pdssible because the..
preparatien.o this Federal 'sociAl pl,an and the whole business were
so enormous, because the elaboration of economic regulations, which
we accepted on this session, took ?much more time than we had .
anticipated.. It could be sai&thatthe work on collecting data and
the Preparation of this plan lasted through the whole year and that
at least half a. year was spent on draft laws on which you were just
voting. That is why it was not possible neither to submit the entire
DraftFBudget7before this session nor that this session could pass
the Budget in the spirit of this new Law on budgets.
Therefore I think that it would be necessary beside,that Ukase
of the Praesidium for financing in the first three months of the
coming year, that this Assembly should pass another resolution,
which is being also propesed by me and comrade Hrncevio.
THE DRAFT RESOLUTION
I. The Pederal Draft BuOr'et for 1952, which the FPRY
Government submitted to the National Assembly on the 28th of
December 1951, is to be handed Par conaileration to c')r.lthitt6es?
for economic plan .and'finande?
II. The Government of FPRY is to submit to the National
Assembly, that is, to its committees for economic plan and
finance, the complete Draft law on Federal budget for 1952,
together with all its appendices, in due course so that
the National 4ssembly could discuss and accept the Law on Federal
Budget for 1952 at latest until the end of Mardh r952.
IT. The Government of FPRY is authorized even btafbre passing
the Law on Fedaral Budget for J952 to establish new system of
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financing social insurance and in connection with this to pass
corresponding provisions.
If these provisions recede from the existing'1?? rrovisions
and as far as they are not included in the Draft Law on Federal
Blidget for 1952, the Government will submit the corresponding
decrees for approval to the National Assembly on its first coming
session.
? As the Peopleie Denuties have unanimously accepted the Draft
on authorization of the FPRY Government to carry out from the
beginning of 1952 postulations and measures provided in the Draft
of the Federal social plan for 1952 and the resolutions proposed
by People's beputies Mosa Pijade and Josip HrnceVic, the Second
Extraordinary Session of the National Assembly of FPRY ended.
(BORBA 30 December 1951)
REGULATION ON FINANCING BUILDINGLCTS
The Federal Government issued a Regulation On financing
buildingfrojects in the first three months of this year under which
buildingprojE-ets will be financed 'on the proposel Federal , 1
social plan for 1952, as well as mining capital'investments and
the maintaUlance of building objects from the amortisation fund.
Financing(eapital investment is to be carried through tte,National
investment bank of FPRY.
This Regulation provides that'the instruction on the mode
of financing and payment of investments in 1952 J_ 'be issued, by
the Minister of Finance of FPRY and the,Fresident,of the. etAultdt1 for
industry and building in cia-Freemthlt with the Presiuwit of the '
'Economic Council of FPRY Government. '
1952.
This Regulation comes into force on the 1st of 'January
BORBA 3 January.1952
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SENTENCE PA3SED.N THE GROUP OF BULGARIAN SPIES AND DIVEASIONISTS
IN VRANJE
(Vranje, 2nd January)
Today the Circuit Court in Vranje passed the sentence on a group
of Bulgarian spies and diversionists in the auditorium of the 31oboda
cinema. There were a great number of citizens present when the sen-
tence was read. This group of spies were working for the Bulgarian
Intelligence Service. The first two found to be guilty were Kiril
Dzonev and Vene Kitanov: they were sentenced to death before a firing
squad and the permanent loss of their civil rights. Tihomir Djakovic,
the third one to be sentenced, Was given 20 years' strict imprisn-
ment and the loss of his civil rights for two years. Aleksander
Gorancev, a Bulgarian citizen, was sentenced to 6 years'imprisonment
after which he is to be expelled from our country; Dragan Cvetkov was
sentenced to 12 years' imprisonment and the loss of his civil rights for
2 years. The rest of the indicted: Simeon Adonov, Manol Krstev, Zinov
Spasov, Jone Stojanov, Jone Georgiev, Stevan Spasov, and Ceko Celcov were
given sentences ranging from 2 to 7 years in prison.
The Public Prosecutor announced that he was dissatisfied with the
verdict and filed a complaint.
(BORBA - 3rd January, 1952).
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LEGISLATIVE COMMITTEES OF THE PEOPLE'S ASSEMBLY OF THE F-ay WILL MET
7V-10 g JANUhRY
The Legislative Committees of the Federal Assembly and People's
Assembly of the FFRY have been convened for Thursday 10th January.
Besides draft laws concerning the administration of disputes and state
attorney-generalship, which the committees were unable to discuss at
the Second Extraordinary Session held at the end of December, ?the
committees will also consider a number of other draft laws. Amongst
these are:- a draft law on the organisation of People's courts and a
general law on People's Committees, which will define the general
principles of the reorganisation of the People's Committees. (Tanjug)
(BORBA - 3rd January, 1951).
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IANYUG DENIES "UNITED PRESS" REPORT ON GIVING CONCESSIONS
On December 31,19511 United Press reported from Belgrade
that Yugoslavia would give concessions to foreign capital.
As the report is unclear and not definitely formulated,
TANYUG is authorized to state that it has no grounds and that it
can be only the fruit of unrealistic wishes and combinations,and
that it goes hand-in-hand with similar?false reports of the
Cominform propaganda.
Also, the spreading of such tendentious reports can only
render difficult the development of normal economic and credit
relations between the foreign countries and firms,on the one.
handland Yugoslavia,on the other.
(BORBA,Jan.3,1952)
IN PR SLOVENIA AMNESTY GRANTED TO 112 CONVICTS
LJUBLJANA,Jan.2- By an Ukase of the Praesidinm of the
People's Assembly of the PR Slovenia, 112 convicts were granted
amnesty in the PR Slovenia on the New Year's Eve, The 'convicts
who have been granted amnesty have proved by their conduct and.
work that they have been re-educated,and so have been freed of
further serving their penalty sentences,
(fl'cr?rm-
Smua::-7, 1952)
AMNESTY GRANTED TO A GROUP OF CONVICTS IN THE PR MONTENEGRO.
CETINJE,Jan,2- On the proposal of the Government of the
PR Montenegrolthe?Praesidium of the People's Assembly of the
republic has issued an Ukase granting amnesty to 26 convicted
persons ,who have been freed from further serving the main
penalty pronounced upon them,
(POLITIKA,Jan 1952.)
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PRAESIDT1141,s UKASE ON _PARDON _AND. AMNESTY
The Sluzbeni Vesnik(Official Bulletin-Ed)of the Preesidium
of the People's Assembly of the FPRY carries in its issue No.26
of December 31,1951,an Ukase on pardon granted to convicted persons,
while in its issue No.23 it carries an Ukase on amensty and reduction
of penalties.
(POLUIKA-Jan.3,1952.)
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THE COMINFORMISTS OF GORIZIA HAVE PROPOSED AN ANTI.,YUGOSLAV
1ESOLUTIONWE PROVINCIAL ASSEMBLY.
GORIZIA,Jan.2- At the last session of the Provincial
Assembly of Gorizia,the Cominformist members of the Assembly'
proposed a provoo)tive resolution against Yugoslavia. The
resolution is addressed to the President of the Italian Republic.
The CominformiSts assert in the resolution that the Italian
Government has adopted the political line of Tito's Yugoslavia,
and also demand that the inhabitants of Gorizia be given a guaranty
that the Yugoslav military units will never come to the prevince
of Gorizia and that the Italian army must never mix in matters
concerning Yugoslavia. This provocative resolution,which also
mentions certain invented Yugoslavia's aggressive plans against
the Soviet Unionowas rejected by all the menbers of the Provincial
Assembly of Gorizia--with the exception of the Cominformists.
Representative of the Democratic Front of Slovenes in Italy and
member of the Provincial Assembly,Nanutireplied to this resolution
and said thatlif the Cominformists are really fighting for peace,
then they should advise'Dioscow to cooperative with the freedom-
loving peoples in the United Nations. In connection with this,
the President of the Provincial Assembly said that the political
significance of the resolution would not be considered at the
meetings of the Provincial Assembly,and Nanut stated that he was
against such a stand since the Slovenes of ?Gorizia have no
representative in the Italian Parliament who could defend their
interests,and thatotherefore,the rights of the Slovenes--inciuding
also their political rights--would be defended in the Provincial
Assembly and in the Municipal Councils.
(Sgd.) A.Z.
( POLITIKA Jan. 3 ,1952.)
DURATION OF VALIDITY OF TOURIST BONS( TUTNIKi")
In connection with the change of Dinar paritylthe
Government of the FPRY has issued a Regulation according to
whichlas of January 1,1952, Tourist Bons("Putniks") will not
be issued by the National Bank at the time of changing foreign
media of exchange into Dinars..
Tourist Bons issued up to January 111952,may be used
for paying for goods and survices in the same way as hitherto
up to January 15,1952. Holders of unused Tourist Bons may
present same to the National Bank of the FPRY for collection of
the counter-value in Dinars. up to January 31,1952 at the latest,.
After that date, the Tourist Bons will lose all value.
(POLITIKA,Jan.3,1952.)'
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PROVOCATION ON THE RIVER MURA,
For the last two weeks Hungary refuses to withdraw her mi-
litary forces from the Yugoslav island on the river Mura. This.provo-
cation was premeditated at a particularily chosen moment and with
a defined objective.
In international relations such acts as accomplished by the
Hungarian Government on the Mura river, are qualified as an aggres;Ave
guet-apens and cJ7ic.:17 _ of territory upon which they have no right
whatsoever. Authorities in the countries of the Soviet bloc, in-
cited from Moscow, are holding 2,000 kilometers long Yugoslav
border for the past three and .a half years under the aim of their
machine guns and rifles and execute heavy armed provocations threate-
ning openly the territorial integrity and free development of Yugo-
slavia.But the last act of Hungarian border guards on the Mura island
differs from the former ones because now the organisers of aggressive
pressure against Yugoslavia show th(!C_r readiness not only to T
provoke incidents along the Yugoslav border by setting ambushes,
killing and organising kidnappings of Yugoslav frontier guards and
by other hostile acts,on which occasions they cross the border line
and remain on Yugoslav territory for several hours - but -y:;l-pt
also to seize a part of Yugoslav territory by forceful means with
the help of their military units and with the support of other mi-
litary reinforcements, The case of esland c the Mura ri7er has
exposed to what extent are cftinformist ,in order
to sharpen still further tension around Yugoslavia, to provoke in
our country uneasiness and a psychosis of fear for the sole reason
to make the political situation in this part of Europe still more
abnormal and difficult and then to justify 'rcl explain their further
non-peaceloving.attitude, their race in armaments, incitement of
chauvinist hate, spreading cstrust among the nation's etc.
Excuses which have been announced by the Hungarian Government
in regard to the disembarkment of Hungarian military units contain
nothing elf.e but a proof of such intentions by Budapest,Because,
the affirmation that armed forces can seek some of " their rights "
on the territory of a foreign state - nobod7. would take seriously,
if behind it was not'oxpo67yi the practice of a usurping policy .which
also 10:tha past different aggressors had recourse to prior to
knocking their hads against the wall , All these excuses which are
quoted by the Hungarian Government in order to explain how the Hun-
garian soldiers found themselves on Yugoslav territory ta- no longer
deceive anybody. The frontier line on the Mura river is ..ATil.known
matter and cannot be changed according to the wishes of Budapest.
At this oj:y the border line is the main course of the Mura river
and ;is situated between the island and the Hungarian river bank so
that the island remains on the Yugoslav side, Thus all affirmations
by the Hungarian Government concerning some " rights " are untenable.
The moment for this provocation was not chosen accidentally.
Hardly a month has passed since the United Nations accepted the Yu-
goslav Resolution by which countries of the Soviet bloc; were requested
to harmonise their relations with Yugoslavia, and partiallarily in
regard to their border acts, in tbmpliance with international regula-
tions and with United Nations' Charter,
The Hungarian provoation cannot be understood differently but
as an intentional Budapest reply - which in fact means Moscow's -
to the United Nations' appeal , To a well-intentioned and peace-
loving appeal , the Cominform has again relied with weapons, provo-
cative guet-apens and seizure of territory of a neighboring state.
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It is evident, that the Hungarian authorities wiOhed with this
gesture to bring to the knowledge. of all that tbey dolloteare
about the United Nations, opinion, world public opinion nor
about peace and that they do not wish to desist from -their non-
peace-loving and aggressive policy toward Yugoslavia The:adven?,
ture of Hungarian authorities on the river Mura points Out again,
the danger and thi.eatto.Peace which are provoked' by the countries
of the Soviet1oloo. tY Conti,nuing a small war On the' frontiers
of Yugoslavia.
signed : B D.
( POLITIKA January 31 1951 )
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eREGARDING .SQME..P140i3LEMS WHICH HAVE ALRFADY BEEN -SETTLED
In Yugoslavia the freedom of treed is guaranteed by the .
.existing laws. The faithful therefore are given an opportunity
of .making:full.liseof their rights, The church is free and the
clergymen hold services daily and. preach on Sundays. ? Al]. other.
religious rites are being administered freely. All Objective
observers must therefore admit that, apart from those freedoms.
which our citizens have been enjoying, there are no other ones
to be granted to them. Nevertheless, there is still a number
nf bishops and clergymen who, being much more devoted to the
Vatican- than to their own state and fatherland, find that the
granted rights are insufficient. The Vetican and all its servants
would now prefer to see the church enjoy all those privileges
which It had in the past. .? They would like to have large church
estates in their possession, to have the last word in all important
matters and to be the only authorized persons as re7ards the youth
education. As all privileges have been cancelled in our country,
the church consequently also finds itself in the same position.
If our people's authority intends to remain truely popular in its
character, then there should be no institutions having any kind
of prerogatives whatsoever.
However, the Vatican has not been used to be treatet as an
equal partner among equals. On the contrary, it got used only to
issue orders. Owing to the fact that it cannot any longer behave
like that in our country, it has assumed a hostile attitude towards
our state. Such a hostile attitude towards our state and its
people's authority is displayed by its higher and lower clergy
applying various metheda. In foreign countries they use lies and
slanders against our country as the Cominform countries 0.o, They
also encourage Ustashi and other groups of reactionary emigrants
by spreading false news on the persecution of the church and -
clerFymen in our country in their effort to depict the facts by
all means available in as dark an aspect as possible. On the
other hand, in our country, those clergymen and bishops who are
loyal to the Vatican create an unfavourable disposition among
the faithful towards the people's authority. In a- majority of
cases, this activity is being carried out silently, but there
are also cases in which action is being undertaken quite openly.
People are being threatened in the middle of the church for not
coming regularly to church, etc. They also suggest to the faithful
that not enough freedom has been granted to the church, Further?
more, they advise the, peasants' to refuse to pay taxes or to join a
co?ape/ative, apart from undertaking even more serious steps and: -
actions directed against the state and the peoples authority,
They have an eseecitlly hostile attitude towards the members of
the Society called Cyril and Methodius composed of clergymen who
maintain that even the clergymen should also be loyal to the people
and the state wishing to collaborate with the people's authority
by contributing their own efforts to the building up of a better
future of our people and the whole mankind.
One of the tasks undertaken by our authority consists in the
development of our rural conditions through. co?operatives. It
further intends to educate our people in the spirit of mutual fra?
ternal collaboration, in the spirit of a common co?operative work
by bringing to an end the dif-eerences between the town and the
villaFe. Through co?operatives, the productivity of our agriculture
is being increased, as well-as that of viniculture and other branches
of our economy. By means of co?operatives, we shall overcome egoistiq
selfish and similar feelings.
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The servants of the Vatican in our country are opposed to
all this because they are not at all Concerned about the develop-
ment of soCialisM. Therefore they, prefer if the villages remain
In darness, poverty and, aconomiC backwardness, being aware of
the fact that the VaticiandoeS not take any interest in the peoples'
JuelLe.being. 'Do these gentlemen believe.that our authority is going
to tolerate Such a behaviour for a long time?.. Hostile acts against
the-people's authority) ,Co-operatives, socialist construction and
se on do not have nothing to do with the Creedl.but are in fact
Subject to jurisdiction.', If they state in general that every
authority comes from Godorhy should they not apply the sameto.
our present authority. In any case it is.their duty to respect
it by observing the.Iaw. On the basis of'our.lawa the faithful
have been granted all those rights which they need. Moreover,
there is plenty of freedom in.Our country of displaying good.will.
The Vtican amd the reactionary clergy are today complaining
because the people16 authority refuses to allow all clergymen to
be religious instructors, They Warn the parents that their
children are not being brought u-o in the spirit of good Moral
in our schools. This is one of their great objections in
relation to our schools, teachers and the people'a authority,
a matter of fact, those clergymen who are the enemies of the
people's authority cannot. he permitted to instruct the youth,
regardless to the 'fact whether. they would be supposed to lecture
at schools or in the church. :Clergymen sitilar te that at
iijdovscina who put a letter in the hands of a deceased man
begging. him to deliver it to the God, so. that, he could make his
mission sucCessful,cannot be granted permission to teach our youth.
In fact', all good and positive achievements PT the past have been
taken up by oUr'education, L.ectures on religious instructions
arc also being helds.butacCordingto the opinion of some. high
dhu7oc officials expressedA.atelythey should be held in,
the church only. By.theway, religious instruction represents
an anachronism in our schools. However, according to my own
pdint of view, those elergyMen who would intend to educate our
youth in the spirit of.superStition'should.not at all'and by no
means be entrusted to do. that job. In addition to this, spread.7-
ing of superstitbn is also subject to 'jurisdiction. :tove for
work for the community, yespect.of man, .obeerVance of law and
patriotism are the basiC principle's upon which the system, of
education ,has been .built up in our country, .
? The campaign waged by the.. high chUrCh officials whe are loyal
to the Vatican is cle:Ysely connected with the general activity of
the international-reaction being in fact: aimeA at a' revelation of
thenfactthat '.our;authority is indapable bf.e.ducc,ting the children
in the sprit of good moral. In our country there should be no
req.igious problems because the creed is free As' regards the
education of our youth, It 'should remain .the responsibility of
the state administered by the peoplelsauthority, We would also
like th remind everybody, to :observe the fact that the national
liberatien. st'ruggl'e has been triumphant incur chuntryl -so that
everybody should respect the adhie.vements of the peoplets revo-
Iulzion wishing to be at peace with our people athority. The
Vatican,whioh can undoubtedly observe the laws iR7 countries
where there are no lectures held on religious instruction at schools
and where it is net obligatory, where inthesame way as in. our countr
the church has been se-oarated-from the state,should also respect our
legislation. It' should also not be deceived by tha fact pretending
that our authority is young. Nevertheless:, it is strong enough to
prevent everybody from undermining At, regardless to the form in
which it 4r rase :ItV1441)F5W0difi 5144ftit062Oba6RP e which
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will enable us to complete our work in 'creating a better future
for oUr-working people. Therefore we do notfeel at ease about:
some hindrances infliced to ourboth economic or cultural develop-
ment. Being not afraid of the reaction which is driven to action
frOm.despair; we do no pay much attention to their efforts. How-
ever we should-remain watchful preveting some people from violating
the rights of our citizens. Furthermore, we should not let them
carry outdetrimental work in connection with some problems which
have already been solved in our country. We should and shall not
let them do any harmful works
?
(S.) Igrek
(LjUDSKA.PRAVIOAJ December 15; 1961)
THE WiTICliNIS BLESSING TO THE SLOVENE SALESIAN MONKS IN THE
ARGENTINE
In a brdadoast of December 1, the Vatican Radio Broadcasting
Station announced a report on the 50th anniversary of the founda-
tion of Int. Salesian order in Slovenia, In this report-it was
stated that there were eight Salesian monacteries'in Slovenia
apart from a number of other institutions including three board-
ing houses, one secondary school, one lewer seminary, a printerst
scnoeln printworkS,?etc. ? Today, it was further 'stated in this
reloort, following the confiscation of all real property of the
Salesians on the part of ceMmlinist authority, there are no more
such institutions in existance In Slovenia, while, as regards the
monks, some of.them have been arrestecli while others live in
isolation. The Salesian menks,must'therefore celebrate. this
jubilee in Argentina because there isa.large number of these
monks ynd live there as refugees. The Vaticants Secretariat
sent in that connection a special message expressing the Pope's
satisfaction with their .activity among the Slovene population
and as a'speoial sign of his favourableness his blesing.
Let 413 see why the Salesian nonka are so. favoured. by the Popes
The scat of the Salesians, an Italian religious,order, is .
in. Turin. From Italy. they came to Slovenia, but most of them also
studied in Turin, thus introducing their specific methods of
propaganda in Slovenia.. They Were extremely:sutcessful in
obtaining contributiomin'cash from the 'faithful. They also
devoted special attention to the education of the youth wham they
tried to attract by different means and even by sports. They also
had their own printshop?and.printed a large number of various
publications which wore distributed all over Slovenia ?in a very
large number of:copies. Their pamphltts called l!Knjizice" (Booklets)
were in fact a handbook for an ideOlogical struggle against communism
Apart from these ideological books; they also published a series of
books on mysticism intended to establish closer ties betwcen the
Salesian monks and the light-minded. faithful. Because ef their
behaviour and methods applied in work, Calesians were not very
Much favoured by other religious orders. They were however envied
because of their successfili propaganda as to the collectien of
Money for the church. Thy rendered the church into .an entergise
in their 'practice. They cOuld easily compete with the Franciscan
Zakrajsek. who introduce 8ethods upon the example of similar actions
undertaken in America. . ?
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For this reasnn the Salesians w(re favoured by the Pope. They
were also very meritorious for their' activity during the national
liberation struggle, O the basis of various documents one ern
see that even before the wrr the leading Salesian monks were
simultaneously Italian F scist spies. Upon the arrival of. the
Italian occupier in Ljubljana, Dr. Franc Blatnik sent on May 7,1941
a message to the Italian Commander.- (Details on Blatnik can be
found in the book "Belogardizem" by Frsnck Sajet published recently)
From the very beginning Blatnik was the chief organizer of high
treason. Next year, on May 15,1942, he denounced his own pupil
Josef Hrastelj and upon his arrest he interrogated him at St.1Jazarus
monastery at T-bor. According to some documents it is more than
obvious that Blatnik became one of the most reliable confidants
of the White Guard and the Italians. He had a widespread spy
network. They persecuted the supporters of the liberation movement
and handed them over to the occupier. The occupier also enabled
him to travel to Croatia and Serbia where he visited the expelled
clergymen. Thereupon some of them were allowed to go beck to
Slovenia. He also closely collaborated with the bishop R-zman
and L;mbert Ehrlich and his "guardians", Following the death of
Ehrlich, he became the spiritual leader of the "guardians", thus
taking them along the path directed to high treason. In the
spring of 1942 when the occupiers hesitated to form armed units
nf White Guardians, they were forced to do so by the reactionary
clerical leaders headed by the bishop Rozman. We can again notice
that Blatnik was assigned the role of Rozmanls courier: he was
sent to the Cardinal Maglinn in Rome. Following this action,
drastic fascist decrees were passed directed against the Slovene
population and armed units of the White Guard were formed. Until
then the fascists were convinced that they were strong enough to
cope with the partisans. The VeticanIs mediation was successful.
During the years which followed, we can again find out that Blatnik
was an organizer and propagator of high treason. I. the autumn of
1943, having been captured by the partisans Blatnik was forced to
take the ultimatum of the XIV division of the partisans to the
White Guard which was surrounded in Turjak. Upon the capture of
T-irjak he had a chance of escaping With some White Guards from
Zapotok to Ljubljana. Under the new circumstances he became the
supporter of Domobrani (Home Guard), went to N vo M sto where he
edited a local newspaper which was distinwuished by its sharp
tone, then went to Otrinthia and finally 'arrived in Today
he lives in Rome and works at the Vatican,Broadcasting Station,
taking advantage of each single opportunity for attacking his
fatherlcnd. ' -
Blatnik is only one exaMple of a Salesian monk, although
he may be considered as one of the most prominent ones, Other
Salesian monks collaborated with him taking care of the education
of their pupils in the spirit of the White'Guard. The Director
of the Salesian ?allege at Kodeljevo admitted before the Court
that in 1943 the majority of his pupils joined the Domobrani and
the police aertice. Not a single religious order, committed high
treason to 'such an extent as the Salesians did in Slovenia. For
such a "behaviour" in Slovenia the Pope considers them meritorious
today.
A majority of Sa;egian monks did not wait to be asked to give
an account of its workey?rhe people, but partly during the war and
especially following the dissolution of the Domobrani units escaped
across the frontier and now is living in the Argentine, Eldorado
for fascist war criminals. They selected a country which is fairly
remote from _Slovenia for the fulfilment of their bloody affair,
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The Pope's blessing and appeovalof the trecherow'. a.;leslans
monks is another proof of a hostile attitude oz the Vatican
towards thesocialist Yugoslavia, Nothing of this is new, but
is a continuation of the line of the well known Vatican campaign
against the revolutionary changes in Yugoslavia waged simultaneously
with the firing of the first partisan gunk .What was the reason
that a large majority of the.SloVene clergy participated in one way
or another in the high trea.son, Was it possible to occur without
a consent and stimulation on the part of the Vatican? Why did the
Vatican identify the persecution of the people's traitors with the
persecution of the church and creed? Why they still persist in
their stand, despite clear evidence of the guilt of numerous clergy-
men who were sentenced? This is not a political or church problem,
but a ciaavtaten of mrtal which sooner or later will have to be solved..
We would have to'worry less about this problem and probably a
"modus vivendi" might be established with the church, rab7ied that the
Vatican would give up with its present stand, Our people will never
forget the treacherous role played by those who are today called by
the Vatican diplomats "martyrs". They will also not have the chance
of seeing our people auport their views saying that treason is
to be considered as a virtue. Not until the Vatican circles and
high church officials in our country would abandon their present
stand, we shall fail to take advantage of each single opportunity
of drawing their attention to historical facts. The liberated people
of Slovenia will never forget its cruel fate which it had to suffer
chiefly owing to. the treason committed by the clergy.
, The people's authority is not so bloodthirsty, but released
numerous convicts hoping that their future attitude towards the
people and their fatherland will be better. By this act no alleged
error made by our courts are being amended, as some people would
like to make it. On the contrary it is a sign of generosity of
the people's authority expressed towards those who seem to be willing
to correct their attitude and behaviour.
Therefore the Vatican's demand for the "rehabilitation" of
sentenced clergymen seems quite illogical to our people. Committed
crimes against the people and the state cannot be cancelled, as if
they were never done. Any country whatsoever and without any
exception would have bondemned such criminals as a large number
of our clergymen were,
The current policy applied by the Vatican towards Yugoslavia
cannot lead to a reconcilement. On the basis of its practice it
becomes. obvious that the Vatican is not at all concerned about a
possible reconcilement, but rather prefers the present situation
to remain unchanged. In this way only one can understand the
Vatican diplomacy, its propaganda and the support offered by the
high church officials in Yugoslavia to the Vatican.
The Pope's blessing to the Slovene Salesian monks in the
Argentine is another move following this same linec.
(S.) Tone Fajfar.
(LJUDStA PRVICA, December 15, 1951)
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