860S.00/12–1347: Telegram
The Acting Secretary of State to the United States Representative at the United Nations (Austin)
601. Trieste Tel. 218, Dec. 13, repeated to you today and press reports on yesterday’s Communist demonstrations in Trieste1 impel [Page 132] us to suggestion that in closed meeting of SC Dec. 17, you take occasion to recall to your colleagues responsibility accepted by SC under Article 2 Annex VI of Italian Peace Treaty for assuring integrity and independence of FTT. You might desire to stress provisions of sub-paragraph (b) of this Article and, in concert with your UK colleague, reaffirm intention of US-UK commanders in FTT to live up to this requirement.
Repeat to Trieste as 138; to London as 5256.
- In telegram 229, December 17, from Trieste, not printed, Joyce described Trieste Congress of Union of Anti-Fascist Youth on December 14th. When the parade attempted to march into the Piazza Unitá, Trieste, police broke up the column and the participants quickly dissipated. “Most participants came from Yugoslav zone FTT and significantly were marshaled by men wearing uniform of Yugoslav army.” (860S.00/12–1747)↩