Nikola Tesla FBI Files - Page 222

REPORT MADE AT

WASHINGTON D. C.

DATE WHEN MADE

30 AUG. 1946

PERIOD FOR WHICH MADE

7/8;8/2/46

REPORT MADE BY

[REDUCTED]

Title

         [REDUCTED]

Character

[REDUCTED]

SYNOPSIS OF FACTS:

The new Yugoslav Ambassador, SAVA N. KOSANOVIC, has stated to the newspaper that they do not contemplate hostilities over the Trieste question. [REDUCTED]

REFERENCE: Report of Special Agent [REDUCTED] dated July 22, 1946, at Washington, D. C.

DETAILS: AT WASHINGTON, D. C.

GENERAL ACTIVITIES

        The "Washington Post" for July 23, 1946, carries a headline relative to an interview had with the new Yugoslav Ambassador SAVA N. KOSANOVIC entitled "War Over Trieste Not Anticipated by Yugoslav Envoy". The article stated he had declared on the previous day that his country would not be provoked into any action in Trieste which would compromise the peace. He also stated they would not accept any solution of the problem which did not accord with their essential interests. He said his Government opposed Italian proposals for a plebecite in the disputed area because the Yugoslav population had been diminished by twenty-six years of Italian rule and the additional loss of 56,000 men in the fight against the Nazis.

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