Evening star., 1946-10-02
u. 5. and Britain
Betray Big Four,
|YugosIavs Hold
Aim Is to Create Base
In Free State, Paris
Delegate Charges
BY the Associated Press

PARIS, Oct. 2.-YugoSlavia
accused the United States and
Great Britain before the Peace
Conference today of betraying
the Big Four agreement on the
free state of Trieste in order to
establish a British American
military base on the Adriatic.
In an angry torrent of rapid-fire
French before the Italian Political
and Territorial Commission, Yugo-
slav Delegate Mosha Pijade declared
the 'Anglo-Saxon powers" had re-
nounced the most important" de-
cisions of the Foreign Ministers
Council pertaining to Trieste.
Democratic principles, in the
British, American and French pro-
posals," Dr. Pijade declared, have
gone with the wind"
The Yugoslav delegate assailed
the British proposals for a statute
governing the new internationalized
area of Trieste as putting the port
on a par with British colony. Re-
calling the Foreign Ministers agree
ment that Trieste's legislative and
executive authority should be or
ganized along democratic lines, DR..
Pijade declared:
I'VE cannot see why the people
Of Trieste should be forced to ac-
cept a colonial-type regime in a
military stronghold"
He said both the British and
American proposals for the Trieste
statute-there are five different
proposals altogether, one from each
member of the Big -Four and one
from Yugoslavia-plus speeches yes
terday by Senator Connally and
British Delegate Gladwyn Jebb, "re-
| veal that Trieste in their minds is
not to become truly free state, but
a military base under an Anglo
American condominium."
"The American, British and
French proposals in no way corre-
spond with the Foreign Ministers
Council decisions, he added.
DR.. Pijade spoke SO rapidly to
crowd his remarks into the commits
sion's 10-minute speech limit that
of1cial stenographers were unable
to keep up with him.
In q short tumultuous scene,
Chairman Left Egeland of South
Africa raped for order at the end
Of the 10 minutes when DR.. Pijade
attempted to speak above the chair
ImAns voice.
Finally, the commissions agreed
to grant him 2 minutes more.
Dr. Ptjade played the British pro-
pne4i for 4 transitional regime
which, he said, meant imposing for
eisn rule on the city, backed by
Anglo American military forces now
occupying Trieste.
The provisional Governor would
run the city, maintain internal order
draft electoral lists. prepare for the
Trieste elections, all with the back
ing Of the United States and British
troops and military government per-
sonnel now on the scene, DR.. Pijade
asserted.
Where is the Security Council
in all this? The responsibility of the
Security Council will be usurped by
two powers" he said.
Economic Union Urged.
DR.. Pijade submitted Yugoslav
proposal for the treaty section on
Trieste providing for economic and
monetary union between the free
state and Yugoslavia, then urged
the commission to leave the draft
ing of the city's statute to the
Foreign Ministers Council.
The United States and Britain,
he said, IN opposing this economic
union, "are erecting a Chinese wall
If not an iron curtain between
Trieste and Yugloslavia.
This is not our last word" he