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        "Laval, Pierre, 1883-1945",
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    "ocrText": "TOP\nDECLASSIFIED\nSECRET\nE.O. 11652, Sec. 3(E) and 5(D) or (E)\nDept. of State letter, Aug. 10, 1972\n-3-\nAMETAL NARS Date 7.23.22\nChief Commissioner emphasizes that serious consequences\nwill result if this Italian belief in AMG's presence is\nallowed to go uncontradicted. He also points out the\ndeplorable effect on Allied prestige throughout Italy\nif the Allied commitment made to Italy last September\nthat AMG would be set up in Venezia Giulia is not carried\nout at least in Trieste. Italian feeling on this is\nextremely strong.\nFar from AMG having actually been set up in Venezia\nGiulia, the Yugoslavs by a combination of bravado, bluff\nand show of arms are getting things their own way. BBC's\nbroadcasting the outright lie that Partisan troops had\nconquered Trieste before the British forces got there has\nnot helped the situation. SAC has demanded that BBC broad-\ncast no communiques on the situation in Venezia Giulia\nexcept those AFHQ issues or approves.\nSAC has proposed a working arrangement with Tito\ngiving SAC military control of the port of Trieste and\nthe railway and roads from there to Austria via Gorizia.\n\"Full use will be made of any Yugoslav civil administra-\ntion already set up and working satisfactorily\", which\nmeans Yugoslav, not Allied, control of the area. This\nis even less than Tito offered SAC on May 5 since Tito\nalso offered use of the port of Pola. Admiral Cunningham,\nCINCMED, is anxious to use Pola but up to now SACMED has\noverruled him. British JCS is urgently pressing. American\nJCS to agree to this arrangement, with a face-saving\nclause that this does not affect the peace-treaty disposal\nof \"any pre-war Italian territory\".\nKirk points out that this means the whole position\nwhich the US has maintained with regard to Venezia Giulia\nfor the past several months is about to collapse. We are\neven retreating further than the British position. He\nobserves that this withdrawal would in the eyes of the US\nand world public opinion be interpreted as abandonment of\nprinciples we have always held.\nTito\nARCHIVES AND"
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