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countries should feel responsibility
as Mediterranean states"
To stand on it's feet, Mr.. Moloto1
said, Italy must carry out radica.
changes. The new Italy must have
the support of all nations"
He said the assertions of Mr. de
Gasperi were the claims of the ole
imperialist Italy and not of the gen.
uine new democratic Italy"
Used Istria for Invasion.
Mr.. Molotov recalled that Italy
! had used Istria as base for invasion
of Yugoslavia. He added, however
that the time has passed when the
Saav people are the object of attacks
by neighboring states"
Noting that Italy has a million
and half unemployed. Mr.. Molo-
tov said Mr.. de Gasperi's claims
do not represent the true interest
of the Italian people, especially ir
trade and agriculture and italian
economy"
He expressed the hope that every
nation will help in creation OF a
new democratic Italy"
Mr.. Molotov paid tribute to Yugo-
slavia which he said occupies a
glorious place beside the Allies who
defeated the Axis" He said Yugo-
slavia's claims to Istria ARE more
valid than those of Italy"
The head Ethiopian delegate, Alto
Akilou Habte Void, following Mr.
Molotov in the Italian debate. an
swered the applause which greeted
him with the remark:
AT this touching moment I can
not help remembering another scene
in which Italian Fascists hissed the
monarch before the League of Ma
tions."
He referred to the occasion
when Emperor Halle Selassie
made a personal appeal before
the League at Geneva in a vain
protest against the italian in
vasion of Ethiopia in 1897
Cites Bases for Attack.
In his five minute address the
Ethiopian delegate recalled that
Italy used Eritrea and Somaliland
as bases for her attack against Ethi-
opia."
I To return them to Italy would be
IAN act of international immoral
ity." he said.
Premier Constantin Tsaldaris
chief of the Greek delega ton, re.
called that in The first six month.
OF the war Greece supported en-.
tirely alone on the continent al
the weight of the Italian aggression
augmented by Albanian military
power"
Mr.. Tsaldaris said Greece asked
no more than a just and fail
peace with Italy
Debate Unlimited.
Mr.. Byrnes opened the confer.
ence to unlimited debate on the
Italian question last night after his
ruling that general debate should
be deferred was challenged by Rus
sian Delegate A. Y. Vishinsky as
AN infraction of all the rules and
an insult to the Soviet Union"
Mr.. Byrnes consulted the minute
OF last Saturdays plenary session
Immediately after Mr.. Vishinsky'
angry argument and agreed that tn
secretariat had erred in preparin,
the agenda. He said debate on tn
Italian question would be continued
and later promised that the, nam
OF Mr. Molotov would be placed or
the aeenda to reply to Premier d,
Gasperi's plea for leniency.
Vice Premier Edward Kardelj o
. Yueoslavia opened the Italian de
bate yesterday with a 5000 wore
excoria ton of the policy of Italial
imperialism and of Italian claims
in the disputed Venezia Giulia are;
around Trieste.
He was able to take the floor onl,
after Mr.. Vishinsky's heated decla
ration in demanding full and unlim
tied debate on italy in the face o
Mr.. Byrnes' ruling that only MI
Kardelj would be permitted to repl,
at this time to Mr.. de Gaspari'
plea OF Saturday.
! Charges Insult" to Soviet.
/ There must be no infringement
Of the right of freedom of speech,
Mr.. Vishinsky cried. L conside
this an infringement and an insul
to the Soviet Union. I insist tha
this insult not be maintained an
that full debate be opened"
Members of the Finnish delepa
ton, led by Prime Minister Maun,
Pekkala, arrived yesterday. The,
were scheduled to appear last be
fore the conference, possibly Fri
day
DR.. Mosha Pijade, member OF tn,
Yugoslav delegation said acceptanc.
by his government of any OF tn,
three draft proposals for a free cit,
OF Trieste, drawn up by the British
Americans or French, was "out o.
the question"