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Communist Tito stuck firmly to his vow to march into Zone A of the Free Territory of Trieste the moment Italian troops march in to take over from Anglo-American authorities. He continued to build up troop concentrations along the Yugoslav-Italian border, the Zone A border and inside Zone B, which he runs. Not many miles away, on the Italian side, some of Italy's crack military units stood at the ready...
...Britain, in both left-wing and conservative journals, the Anglo-American plan was under stiff attack on the grounds that it had been badly handled, and hastily sprung, even though the Foreign Office insists that as long as a year ago, Marshal Tito had indicated to Anthony Eden that partition of the Trieste territory between Yugoslavia and Italy would be acceptable to him. Clement Attlee and his Labor Party forced the House of Commons into scheduling a debate on Trieste. Worried that the Laborites would lean to Tito's side,* the leader of Italy's non-Communist Socialists...
...contrary to all traditions of Anglo-Saxon justice to punish a man for high crimes, never telling him what they are, and never allowing him to make a defense. Those who rail against this sort of thing in Congressional investigations must also condemn the hasty British action. But if the Guianan officials are liable to jail sentences, their former position should not keep them...
...that the Italian people know it . . . Perhaps one day we will learn with what patience, intelligence and diplomatic tact Mrs. Luce succeeded in bringing this arduous task to a happy end." But Ambassador Luce, in a press conference, attributed the plan's adoption to the concerted efforts of Anglo-American embassies and foreign offices...
...first, hardheaded Marshal Tito reacted with comparative mildness. The Anglo-American plan was, in fact, almost identical to one the British say Tito approved privately less than a year ago in talks with Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden, except that the new plan does not try to freeze the division of territory. Tito called on his cops to quiet the street crowds, but the marching, chanting demonstrations spread. In his manipulation of the touchy Trieste issue, Tito had apparently whipped his people to a higher emotional pitch than he recognized, and intermixed the issue with his own prestige -a serious mistake...