Evening star., 1946-09-03
Yugos|avs Press
Own Modified
Trieste Plan
Military Commission
At Poris OK's ItuIiun
Force of 297 500
Rv kewhoId Novee Ir
By NewboId Noyes, Jr.
Sfor Stoff Correspondent

By NewboId Noyes, Jr.
stor Staff Correspondent
PARIS, Sept. 3.-The Peace
Conference began to come to a
boil today over the hottest issue
yet to be dealt with at the Lux
emborug Palace-that of the
disposition of the Adriatic port
of Trieste.
At the same time the Military
Commission was approving italian
treaty draft provisions whereby
Italy would be permitted to retain
total armed force of 297 500 men,
including carabinieri, minute frac-
ton of her armed strength before
the war.
The approved articles would leave
Italy with 250,0OO soldiers. a navy
of 22,500 men and an air force of
$4,000 men.
(The Associated Press reported
that Italy also is barred from
possession of aircraft carriers and
her land air force is restricted
to 200 fighter and reconnaissance
planes, with an additional $50
transport and training planes.
(The strength of the carabinieri
is set at $1,000 Yugoslavia with
drew an amendment to limit the
force to 10000.
approval of Big Four recon-
mendations to limit the Italian
feet to two battleships, four
cruisers and four destroyers and
restrictions on other smaller war
craft was delayed pending study
of French amendment to qualify
the wording Of the treaty.
Big Four Proposals Rejected.
DR.. Ales Bebler put the Yugoslav
case before the Italian Political and
Territorial Commission this morn
ing. He inferentially rejected the
proposed settlement of the Council
Of Foreign Ministers creating a free
territory around the city and lashed
out at the Italian view on the ques-
ton, set forth yesterday by Ivanoe
Bonomi, former premier of the
Italian provisional government.
Expressing his country's "ex-
tremely conciliatory disposition, +"
the Yugoslav delegate proposed
that the conference accept, with
certain notifications in favor of
Italy. the original Yugoslav boun-
dairy proposal which already has
been rejected once by the Council
of Foreign Ministers.
Almost as Mr.. Bebler began his
50-minute presentation delegates at
the conference received news that
the Tito government had again ac-
cused the United States of violating
Yugoslav's sovereignty over her ter
ritory with American planes
Mr.. Bebler saw in the Italian posi-
ton with regard to Trieste new in
dications of an aggressive policy.
No fig leaf here conceals the
nudity of aggressive arguments" he
said.
Yugoslav Rebuttal Vigorous.
Mr.. Bonomi. the Italian spokes-
man, had somewhat startled the
commission yesterday by accepting
with regret the Big -Four decision
for setting up free Trieste and
arguing from there for changes in
the proposed settlement which would
seek to balance the loss to Italy by
similar loss to Yugoslavia. The
vigor of the Yugoslav rebuttal
strengthened the impression that
the Italians had made a wise and
telling move.
Mr.. Bebler catisgated the italian
arguments as ruthless, heartless
acknowledgements which are
sometimes ridiculous and sometimes
so impudent that they cannot but
be considered revolving by those
who still have some respect for
truth In the course of a bitter
personal denunciation of the aged
Italian representative, he declared:
"Senor Bonomi's personality is ex-
pressive Of Italian imperialism.
Mr.. Bonomi had said the boundary
line between Italy and Yugoslavia as
suggested by the Big Four separated
Italian hydroelectric plants in the
Isonzo Valley from their outlets in
the proposed free territory and in
Italy. He also said they prevented
completion of railway line already
begun over Italian territory which
would give Trieste an alternate con-
nection with Central Europe from
the ones which now pass Yugoslavia.
More than once Yugoslavs have sug-
gested that If they do not get Trieste
they will apply a customs boycott to
these existing lines.
Sees Gorizia Cut Off.
Mr.. Bebler saw it differently. The
Italian argument, he said, meant
that in order to get a railway and
some plants, Italy would take over
$4,000 square kilometers Of territory
and population of 100000 torn
from Yugoslavia."
ITALY is already making economic
preparations for the enslavement of
the Julian March," he asserted.
Mr.. Bonomi had pointed out that
the proposed boundary cut off the
town Of Gorilla, left to Italy, from
its suburbs and water works. Mr..
Bebler countered with the conten-
tion that the hinterland does not
belong to city, but rather the city
TO the hinterland.
In the course of his address, Mar
shall Tito's spokesman got in an OBJ
vious reference to Yugoslav resent
ment at American and British sup
Lort for the Italians.
THE resistance of certain great
powers in the course of the last years
against the just claims of Yugoslavia
was at the same time a help and
an encouragement for unjust Ital-
ian expansionist tendencies against
Yugoslavia," he said. In attacking
the decision of the Big Four Foreign
Ministers to divide Venezia Giulia
(the Julian March, along the So
called French line, which seeks to
balance the number of Yugoslavs