Memorandum from Acting Secretary of State Joseph Grew to President Harry S. Truman, Current Foreign Developments

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TOP SECRE DECLASSIFIED E.O. 11652, Sec. 3(E) and 5(D) or (E) Dept. of State letter, Aug. 10, 1972 By NLT-HC NARS Date 9.18.75 June 18, 1945 MEMORANDUM FOR THE PRESIDENT Subject: Current Foreim Develonments Complications Still Arising in Venezia Giulia. General Morgan has submitted to SAC his draft agreement with the Yugoslavs on militery details for Venezia Giulia. Kirk considers this draft unsatiafactory in several respects. It gives the Yugoslav command the same powers of control resorved to SAC, gives the Yugoslavs *war booty* without clearly defining the term, permits the Yugoslavs to issue similar identity cards to those SAC will issue which would in effect allow them to create de frote Yugoslav citizens, and uses severel joint terms, like "Joint Economic Agency", to dignify what are purely local arrangements. The Yugoslavs are also trying to get SAC to recog- nise the Yucoslav Committee of Liberation in his erea and to substitute Yugoslav-committees for Italian offi- ciale in many places there, "as Marshal Tito has strong views on this matter." Yugoslava withdrawing from this area have increased their arrests and looting and Yugo- slav officials while ostensibly cooperative are actually being a great nuisance. On June 12 AMG began distributing food and on June 14 increased the daily bread ration from 150 to 200 grams. Itely's "NATIONAL ARCHIVES ARD RECORDS SERVICE"