Memorandum of Conversation with Secretary of State Dean Acheson, Ambassador of Italy Alberto Tarchiani, and Llewellyn Thompson

M.Asbjoruson DEPARTMENT OF STATE SECRET 315 Memorandum of Conversation DATE: April 26, 1950 SUBJECT: Trieste Corf ?, 126 PARTICIPANTS: the Italien Asbazazdor The Secretary Zlewellyn E. Acting Assistent Secretery COPIES TO: m/s WT TRUMAN RE S. ARCHIVES "NATIONAL RECORDS AND John Amarican Rome 0.3. Delegation, American London covered SERVICE" 1-1493 The Ambansador esid that Count sforma had insisted that be explain personally the in which be had made a very strong statement in a recent spesch. The road the statement In whleb the Italian Forolgn Mininter had suggested the publicity of Itely's trecking the treaty of pesce. The Ambassador said Count Sforza wisbed him to maice clear that be wan not denouncing the tresty and that maoh bad bess read into hia statement than was intended. It not dest aned to exort preseuro but to presorve the Italian unity. de explained the poli- bioal mituation In Italy In which the communiats were allied with cortain othar in oppesing the government on the tresty question. the communiste argued that Italy would have bad & good solution of thi $ problem they had played ball with Rusaia. The osber group sook the atand that Italy bad been botpaged by the Allies. It was in those that had used a sentence which ane stronger than his thought I asicad Af it wero not pos:ible to resolve the Trieste problem. the caid na ahonght had played an importent role in Trustrating any solution and referred to the stegs the Soviet had taken to stir up trouble, including two recent notes which the Italian Dovernment had recoived, one dealing with reparatione and SECRET