FOREIGN RELATIONS, 1946, VOLUME IV



                           Justification
  The Brazilian Delegation is convinced that the pressure of military
events was not solely responsible for the overthrow of the Fascist
regime in Italy. There were in Italy a considerable number of anti-
fascist elements, who suffered under the yoke of the regime and had
long entertained hopes of liberation. Military events simply furnished
them with an opportunity to act.
  It is precisely because a considerable portion of the Italian people
understood that their cause was bound up with that of the demo-
cratic powers, that Italy was able to contribute "with substantial
military forces"-as recognised by the Potsdam Declaration-to the
defeat of Germany.

C.P. (Gen) Doc.1.E.2.
                          ARTICLES 3 AND 4
  Substitute for these two articles the following:
  "The frontier between Italy and Yugoslavia shall be determined
jointly by the Governments of the United States of America, France,
the United Kingdom and the U.S.S.R., within a period of one year
from the coming into force of the Treaty.
  For this purpose, the Council of Foreign Ministers shall appoint a
fresh Committee of Experts for the study of the question. This Com-
mittee should take into consideration not only ethnic, geographical and
economic factors, but also the possibility of creating a free territory,
capable of independent existence, between Italy and Yugoslavia.
  Until the Four Powers have taken a final decision, the existing mili-
tary occupation shall be maintained up to the so-called "Morgan line".
                           Justification
  When the Council of Foreign Ministers decided in London, on 19th
September 1945, to set up a Committee of Experts to report on a fron-
tier line which should, generally speaking, follow the line of ethnic
separation, the question of setting up a Free Territory of Trieste had
not yet been mooted. It was only much later, after the Committee of
Experts had presented its report, that the Four Ministers, by a decision
taken on 3rd July last, agreed that the Free Territory of Trieste should
be constituted. The whole aspect of the problem therefore changed
enormously and the original plan should have been revised, all the
more so as the creation of this Free Territory was almost exclusively
at the expense of the territory attributed to Italy by the so-called
"French line", adopted as the line of demarcation between Italy
and
Yugoslavia.



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