ITALY DISAPPOINTED
TREATY CONSIDERED VERY HARSH PLEA FOR MORE LENIENT TREATMENT PARIS. August 10. “The Italian treaty is very harsh, We .do not even see the gleam of hoi? 0 which was given at Versailles,” said the Italian Prime Minister, Signor A do Gasperi, addressing the plenary session of the Paris Conference. “ What worries us is not the text of the treaty, but the spirit.” • Signop de Gasperi strongly protested agaipst the territorial changes, particularly the Trieste proposals. Ha claimed that the Italian navy collaborated with the Allies, and pleaded the Italian casualties in resistance against the Germans as justification for more lenient treatment.
Regretting the tone of the treaty, Signor de Gasperi said the allusion to co-belligerents was “ colder and drier ” than the terms applied in other treaties to former enemy countries. Dwelling on the allocation of Trieste to Yugoslavia. which was a “ bitter disappointment, arousing the strongest reaction in Italy,” Signor fie Gasperi pointed out that 648,000 Italians would thus he severed from: their country. He appealed for a chance for Italy to make a full contribution to recovery. We a nation of 47,000,000 toilers ready to pool our efforts with yours in the creation of a, m°re just an d humane world,” h.e said.
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Evening Star, Issue 25868, 12 August 1946, Page 5
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