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    "ocrText": "SEORS\n- 5 cam\nTHE SECRETARY OF STATE said he agreed as to this dangor.\nTHE PRIME MINISTER said that he antioipated that the public\npress would go off into speculation if negetiations got out. He\nsaid that he therefore wanted to find a place for the negotiations\nwhere complete secrecy could be maintained,\nAMBASSADOR TARCHIANI said that he thought negotiations might\nsucceed if they were well prepared. He thought the Yugoslavs might\nbe urged to solve the question in the common interest and in their\nown interest. On this basis a solution could be reached and, as\nthe Prime Minister had said, Italy is always ready to reach a human\nsolution, that is, an ethnic solution.\nTHE SECRETARY OF STATE said that it might be useful for the\nFresident to see Mr. Velebit.\nTHE PRESIDENT said that he would be glad to see him and that he\nwould say to him exactly what he had said to the Primo Minister,\nTHE PRIME MINISTER said that he had been concorned about the\nsituation in Zone A of the Free Territory whore there 'had been some\nincidents and misunderstandings arising out of actions of the\nAllied Military Government, euch as the changes in the signs over\nshops of the Italian State Tobacco Monopoly. He aaid these incidents\nand misunderstandinga gave rise to the suspicion in Italy that the\nprovisional Military Government was laying the basia for the estab-\nlishment of a permanent government in a neutral free territory. He\nsaid that he hoped that the British and American authorities would\napply existing Italian legislation in Zone A, especially since under\nthe Peace Treaty, only the Governor, if he were appointed, could\nchange the laws.\nTHE SECRETARY OF STATE said that this matter had besn discuesed\nand that he would look into it further. He said he thought AMG might\nnow be too neutral rather than moving in the direction of returning\nTrieste to Italy,\nTHE PRIME MINISTER referred to the question of the Italian Peace\nTreaty.\nTHE SECRETARY CF STATE said that the President has approved what\nis being done and that the British and French Governments agree.\nTHE PRESIDENT\nAL E"
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