Trieste Question No Nearer a Solution-Soviet Non-suited

Grey River Argus, 23 February 1949, Page 5

Trieste Question No Nearer a SolutionSoviet Non-suited

(Rec. 8.25) NEW YORK, Feb. 21 The Ukrainian delegate, M. Vassili Tarasenko, in the U.N. Security Council to-day, accused Britain and the United States of deliberately thwarting any attempt to find a Governor tor Trieste. He repeated Russia’s earlier charge that the reason ior this "violation” of the Italian Peace Treaty was a desire of Britain and the United States to maintain military bases in Trieste. M. Jacob Malik (Russia) said that the British and American action was just part of their general policy of not respecting agreements made at Yalta and Potsdam affecting Japan and Korea. He said that Russia, last summer, approved one of the Western candidates for governorship of Trieste, but Britain and the United States then backed out. He did not give the name of the candidate. ’ Mr Warren Austin (United States) accused M. Malik of indulging in villification and in spurious accusation.

M. Guy Dele --(France) said that it was straneg to find the Soviet delegate—considering his own country’s record—trying to give the Council a lesson in high political morality, regarding the observation of treaties. The council then dropped the Trieste question, without voting on the Soviet’s resolution which proposed Colonie Flueckiger, of Switzerland, as Governor. The governorship question, therefore, has again been shelved indefinitely.