740.00119 Control (Italy)/9–2845
The Italian Embassy to the Department of State
The Italian Minister for Foreign Affairs, Signor De Gasperi, has personally expressed to the Secretary of State in London Italian gratitude for the firm stand taken by the American Delegation in the question of Venezia Giulia. In order that the policy adopted during the meeting of the Ministers in London may find equitable application, the Italian Government deems it indispensable that the following conditions, which are being submitted to the serious attention of the Department of State, be carried out:
- 1.
- That the repatriation of all Italians who were deported by the Yugoslavs take place as soon as possible (such repatriation was expressly contemplated in the Tito-Alexander agreement of last July [June?],1 but has not yet been executed as far as the Italians are concerned);
- 2.
- That the immigration of Slovene elements, organized with the intention of falsifying the ethnical proportions of the region, be rigorously controlled;
- 3.
- That “personal security”—now non-existent—be reestablished in the Yugoslav controlled zone.
- 4.
- That Italy cooperate, on the same and identical basis as Yugoslavia, together with the Allied Powers which are charged with defining “in loco” the border line.
Washington
, September
28, 1945.