Word: triestini
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Dates: during 1953-1953
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...Triestini cannot forget the past splendour of their city. They remember Trieste in the early days of the 1900s, a prosperous, bustling city of commerce and culture. But after two wars and an unsettling peace, Trieste has lost most of its ornate old-world charm. The seaport, once the chief Adriatic port of the Hapsburg empire, is now almost deserted. When ships do arrive, they are generally laden with United States...
...theory the October agreement makes sense. There are about four times as many Italians as Yugoslavians in Zone A, while in Zone B the Slavs are the majority. But Triestini fear that any partition along blood liners could only be temporary and when the U. S. British occupation troops are withdrawn, Tito will quickly annex Zone A as well. There are other disadvantages in the proposal. No provision has yet been made that would guarantee Trieste as a free port. Austria and the Slavic countries need this outlet to the Adriatic, and without their trade, the port could not continue...
...direct control of Britain's Major General Sir Thomas John Willoughby Winterton, Military Governor of Trieste (and also commander of the British and U.S. troops there). General Winterton's tough cops are not liked. Paid twice the salaries of Italian cops, they are also suspect by Triestini as contented Independentistas who want to keep the status...
...fell to the police to disperse the marchers. They began by trying to wrest an Italian flag from the column leaders, and in the scuffle they began swinging rifle butts and truncheons (see NEWS IN PICTURES). The Triestini counterattacked with a hail of paving stones. By midnight about 15 rioters had been hurt, scores arrested...
...clear that under the rough police handling, the situation was likely to get worse instead of better. General Winterton ordered them off the streets, and put U.S. troops of the 351st Infantry Regiment to the job of restoring order. It was a belated but successful move. The Triestini cheered the Americans, and order was restored within a few hours, without any more casualties. But the toll of the three days' work stood thus: among the demonstrators, six dead, 56 wounded or injured, more than 100 arrested; for the police, no deaths, 72 wounded...