ITALIAN COLONY PLAN DEFEATED
LONDON, Wed. (1.30 p.m.)-One ot the largest crowds Tripoli has seen collected today to celebrate defeat of the proposal to give Italy trusteeship of Tripolitania. They paraded Detween the headquarters of the United National Front and the British administraiA-n
A man dressed as a corpse, representing the death, of the Btvin-Sforza proposals headed the procession of 15,000 people. In Cairo today an Egyptian Foreign > ffice official commenting on rejection by the United Nations by one vote ol the Bevin-Sforze proposals, said “this is magnificent news it will nave a most heartening effect on Aran opinion throughout the Middle East.' latin-amkrican bloc
The powerful Latin-American Dloc nased its entire voting on the question whether Italy would eventually be given the trusteeship over Tripolitania.
The moment this key paragraph was defeated the majority of the LatinAmerican votes were switched against the resolution as a whole.
After a weary night sitting the Assembly was faced with a complete dead end.
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Northern Advocate, 19 May 1949, Page 5
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