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ITALIAN COMMISSION AT CONFERENCE (New Zealand Official News Service) PARIS, August 17. New Zealand gained prominence at yesterday’s meeting of the commissions of the Paris conference. In the afternoon New Zealand was elected unanimously to the important and onerous post of rapporteur of the Italian political and territorial commission, probably the key commission to the conference. New Zealand was proposed by Jugoslavia after several countries had declined the honour, and the New Zealand representative said that in the circumstances his delegation felt bound to accept, in spite of smallness of their number. New Zealand’s appointment was greeted with acclamation. The commission will have to deal with such highly contentious matters as Trieste, the disposal of the Italian colonies, and the Austrian-Italian and 1 French-Italian frontiers,
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Press, Volume LXXXII, Issue 24959, 21 August 1946, Page 7
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