Memorandum from Acting Secretary of State Joseph Grew to President Harry S. Truman, Current Foreign Developments

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TOP SECRET DECLASSIFIED E.O. 11652, Sec. 3(E) and 5(D) or (E) Dept. of State letter, Aug. 10, 1972 BYNITHE ARS Date 6.26.75 June 19, 1945 MEMORANDUM FOR THE PRESIDENT Subject: Current Foreim Develomments Allies Firm with Yucoslavia Over Venezia Giulia. The Department has heartily agreed with the firm line on Venesia Giulia which Kirk has urged on SAC and has instructed him to continue to press for removal of the objections he has cited in the subsidiary agree- ment. General Morgen has elso taken a stronger line with the Yugoslav delegation at Thirteenth Corps HQ. He has reminded them that they said that orders would be given to the Yugoslav detachment remaining in SAC's area to concentrate end that no such concen- tration has been carried out. On June 17 the Yugoslav commender of this detachment said he could not concen- trate its troops until the Yugoslav High Command ordered him to do so. This is a clear breach of the Belgrade agreement which placed these troops under SAC's command from June 9, and unless these troops immediately carry out SAC's order and concentrate in the aren specified, SAC will consider himself free to take measures to re- move them. This is a much sounder line then General Morgan had taken with the Yugoslavs earlier. He wanted his thoroughly unsatisfactory droft agreement accepted without the **NATIONAL ARCHIVES AND RECORDS a SERVICE