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Draft Telegram to the Prime Minister
Since sending you my telegram of April 30 in which I
told you of my hesitation to use American troops against
Yugoslavs I have become increasingly concerned over the
implication of Tito's actions in Venezia Giulia. You are
no doubt receiving the same reports which indicate that he
has no intention of abandoning the territory or of permitting
a peaceful solution of this century old problem as part of
a general pacific post-war settlement. I have come to the
conclusion that we must decide now whether we should uphold
the fundamental principles of territorial settlement by
orderly process against force, intimidation or blackmail.
It seems that Tito has an identical claim ready for South
Austria, in Carinthia and Styria and may have similar
designs on parts of Hungary and Greece if his methods in
Venezia Giulia succeed. Although the stability of Italy
and the future orientation of that country with respect
to Russia may well be at stake it seems to me that the
present issue, as I see it, is not a question of taking
sides in a dispute between Italy and Yugoslavia or of
becoming involved in internal Balkan politics. The problem
is essentially one of deciding whether our two countries
are going to permit our Allies to engage in uncontrolled
land grabbing or tactics which are all too reminiscent
of
: ARCHIVES "NATIONAL SERVICE" RECORDS AMD
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