AUSTRIA OPPOSES BORDER CLAIMS BY YUGOSLAVIA
(10 a.m.) LONDON, Feb. 28. Dr. Karl Gruber, the Austrian Foreign Minister, rejected a compromise bn frontier claims against Austria made by the deputy Yugoslav Foreign Minister, Mr. Ales Bebler, says Reuter’s tliplomatic correspondent.
In a statement to the Foreign Minister’s deputies conference on Austria, Dr. Gruber said the Austrian Parliament and Government would never
ratify a treaty which does not maintain the inviolability of the Austrian frontiers.
The latest Yugoslav proposals for the protection of the Slovene minority in the Austrian province of Carinthia amounted to the creation of an autonomous region. This would constitute “a constitutional monster and would, in any case, create chaos.” The Austrian Government would, however, consider a proposal for the international protection of the Slovene minority to be written into the Austrian peace treaty.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 22883, 1 March 1949, Page 5
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