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YUGOSLAVIA REACTS
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ried out without = real fight de.
veloping.
Ne Reply From Rene
In Rome, Premier Giuseppe
Pella's government made no re.
ply to Tito and was reported tax.
ing the attitude that the Yugos.
slav areas were something for
Britain and America to worry
about.
Nor was there any indication In
Rome that Italy was sending more
troops to her northeast frontier
with Yugoslavia, where the finest
soldiers Of the NATO pledged Ital.
ian army already are stationed,
Reports from the area said not
even routine weekend leaves had
been cancelled.
No Italian troops had entered the
Trieste territory yet, but Washing.
ton sources expected the u. S. and
British forces would not be with.
drawn until the Italian soldiers had
moved in.
In Trieste, Italians and Yugo-
slavs watched each other through
barb-wire roadblocks closing the
zonal frontier but there was little
evidence of nervousness.
American and British troops
were packing up. Diplomats in
London and Washington said the
evacuation would take six weeks.
"A top American commander In Tri.
este told q staff meeting yester-
day the departure ''may take long.
er than expected"
Three American destroyers were
in Trieste harbor but u. S. naval
officials in london asserted they
were on routine business not con-
nected with the present crisis.
Conference Slated
At United Nations headquarters
in New York, 4 Yugoslav spokes-
man said Ambassador Vladimir
Popovic, his nations envoy to
Washington, planned to confer TO-
day with Secretary Of State John
Foster Dulles.
Trieste was Austrian before
World War and Italian after but
was split into the two occupation
zones at the end Of World War II.
The Italian Peace Treaty desig-
mated it q free territory under an
international administration but
Russia and the Western Big Three
have never been able to agree on
4 governor.
In 1s4s, while Tito still was al.
lied with Moscow, the United
States, Britain and France said the
entire territory should 60 to Italy.
After Tito's break with the Krem-
lin, Big Three backing for the Ital-
ain claim gradually subsidized.
In late August, Italy moved
troops up TO the frontier and ex-
pressed fear Yugoslavia would for
mally annex Zone B. The Italians
demanded q plebiscite to let the
Trieste population settle its OWE
future but Tito countered with a
demand that the port city be in
ternationalized and the rest of the
area be given to Yugoslavia.
zens D To YvsosIavs
The British-American announce
ment of withdrawal said Yugoslav-
ia would be left With Zone B, an
area largely Of vineyards and
Tito on Saturday Of
fered to let Italy have the port
city if Yugoslavia got all the rest
Of the territory, but reports of his
speech yesterday did not mention
any repetition oft his offer.
Tito told the Macedonian crowd,
officially at $50, 900, that
the United Staes and BRIAN
think we viii cool off in a few
days"
"They do not realize" he as
serted, "that we are coldblooded
and viii do everything that is nec-
essary to be done"
Tito said his government is
watching the Italian moves close
". and we viii do so in the fu-
ture. And, at that moment, when
the Italian soldiers enter, we win
enter also.
There cannot be peace between
US and the italians because this
proposal (the British-American an
nouncement) is not the foundation
for cooperation with Italy"
Four huge, well-organized meet
ings were held in Belgrade yes
terday protesting the surrender"
of any part of the Trieste terri