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ITALIAN EMBASSY
WASHINGTON, D. c.
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friendly terms with all her neighbors.
A) With France Italy has frontiers, based upon sound
ethnical and geographic principles, which were fixed by mutual
agreement between the two countries in 1860 and upon which,
for eighty-four years, never was there any claim on the French
part. Italy has recently given evidence of her good will and
friendship for France by settling through direct negotiations
the only problem existing between the two countries. In fact,
although Tunisia was inhabited for nearly three ninths of the
population by Italians, Italy has made the substantial
sacrifice of giving up all her rights recognized by previous
agreements since 1881. The Italian people feel, therefore,
that no territorial questions may exist between the two
countries.
B) Italy has already declared to be ready to negotiate
an honorable and equitable agreement for Venezia Giulia with
the Yugoslavs, if her vital national interests are safe where,
for more than twenty centuries, a majority of Italians have
lived, many hundreds of years prior to the appearance of Slavs
in those regions.
If to preserve peace in Europe and the amicable cohabita-
tion of the two populations some compromise would prove absolute-
ly necessary, it is fair and equitable that sacrifices be made
by both sides and not only by the Italians: it cannot be
forgotten that Fiume and Zara and other areas, at present
occupied by the Yugoslavs, are entirely or prevalently inhabited
by Italians.
C) The Brenner frontier line is the natural geographic
and strategic border between the Italians and the Germans.
There was a German minority within the Italian borders: not
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