Memorandum from Acting Secretary of State Joseph Grew to President Harry S. Truman, Current Foreign Developments
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11652, Sec. 3(E) and 5(D) 10, or 1972
E.O. letter, Aug. 6.26.25
Dept. NLTHANAS of State Date
By
May 29, 1945
MEMORANDUM FOR THE PRESIDENT
Subject: Current Foreim Developments
Venezia Giulia. The US reply to Tito on Venezia
Giulia was approved on May 26. It hes still not been
presented. The reason is that SAC does not want Pola
and the western part of the Istrian peninsula in his
AMG area, though this was listed in US-UK notes of May 15
to Tito and on May 25 the British again agreed that Pola
and western Istrin should be under AMG. This is the most
Italian part of all Venezia Giulia. In other words, it
is the aren which more than any other exemplifies the
principle of fair territorial adjustment which the US
hns so earnestly been striving to maintein.
What concerned the US was the principle that a dis-
puted ares, to which Italy clearly had some rights a.8 well
a.8 Yugoslavie, should not be completely overrun by Tito--
contrary to his pledged word of February==and be forcibly
made part of Yugoslavia by the totalitarian tectica every
impartial observer has reported the Yugoslavs using in
Venezia Giulia.
As SAC himself told his troops on May 19, Tito's
tactics "are all too reminiscent of Hitler, Mussolini
and Japen". SAC seems to have forgotten that message
now that he has his convenient Trieste-Villach line of
communications to Austria more or loss assured by our
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