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WEP~TY R~~WWTIONS
CLAIMS
"DPesponsdencyI
Sw~eeps Italy"
PARIS, Sept. 8. A.A.P.--"A wave of despondency
is s;weeping Italy as a result of the heavy reparations demands
being piled up against her," said the Italian Prime Minister
(Signor de Gasperi) in a letter to the chairman of the
Italian Political Commission of the Paris Conference.
"The total of these de
meands," he added,."gives a fig
ure so much higher than could
have been expected, as well as
one in excess of any economic
possibilities Italy possesses,
that the mere announcement
of them has created distress
end demoralisation.
'Italil?ns believed that tile extreme
rigour of the territorial noel military
Cllnocrs oF the peace treaty rould
havle been compensatedl by econolmic
clallscs.
"Their hopes hase been dashed
bh reparirtions claims so numerous
and. so serious that ceven if the smnll
cit proportion of them wCre accept
d :theyC i cold creite an economic
ond iilfancial crisis freoes whiih.uItaly
posclyh iollld niever recoverlt?'
:iimong clailors , foi, 1 atepa']:ions
ns-iost Taly. ni oned foe Lila?5 mil-.
lion by Y\iigoshs'id, soil another for
£1? ,Set '5t. by li: .Netlerlands: :,
'11 e ltalrin ·delegation :to the :Paris
Coiifercice .hues lformoslly pirotested
aooinst tic rcmaik lalst week of hI.
tyshuiiisky (Ruiscia )that Italian cold
aiers cre better at rncning than
fihiting.
In a letter to t;eif hgeland, thhe
Sooith ofl ican clanirman of the Itol
iaun Iolitical and' Territorial Con
mission, tIs dlelegation Dexpressed
"painful astonishalmnc t at this inuri
oans insult oilnd aL manyi others of a
similar naiture," sa5ys tile tome cor
ies~pindent of the tAsocieites Press.
The YVigoslav Vice-Pressier (Dr.
Kisrlelj) sa~id Yssgoslavrii would not
redognle assy dlecisions of the cbnfer:
anclce nid irsoild not sgia -any peace
with Italy if the "Fiench .Line,"
which divkilcd Venezia Giulia's second
largest town, Gorizma, were not
aiendled.
'"The Yusgoslav Goaernmennt could
nost give up around tlhis table what
its sodldiers fought, and.:died for."
he saiid.
No Decision on Human'
) Righis Plan
Alstraiais 'ptrblat osl for the estab
lishillt'~of:a colrt.aof siumin rights
wls 5debated' by the' Legal Coai
miission ofat Ies Paris Conference ycs
teiday, No ldecisioan was "recahed.
\Vlhile' ?spressing, Sympathy with
tle Australian proposal, spealkei's
ureicd "vitlh Belgium a contention
that the U..N0: machinery ada-'
iuitely caed the si estion. .
r F.: Whitlam (Autsaralia)
cleimed that a dluiable peace de
pended upoi tLie prohision of means
of protectinss the fundamientl frec
dohss of all suersons.
The Rimaniasnia Political snid Tdrri
toaial Comuission rcjrcted an Asis
tralian aenisesdment to the treaty
clauise srequirinig Rlmania to accept
as'angeients for teie liquidation of
Prewcar international organisations,
suiiI as the Ieague of Niations.
'rihe Cominission toolk thIe view that
thil amendmesnt hsid already been
adleqiately debated bh. the Finuish
Coummnission.
The hIui....niii Con.isslason speeded
up its weoli yeste'day and hompletod
cohsileiation at "part . irbe 'o theL
treaty. It tus:u halt-finished" its
A...t a meeting ofatlte Finnish' Cdm
mission,s ?tHi.;Iodgasoa (Austialia) sn
ssccesssshll¢- tised to get,, acceptance
oat'the -,prineiple tlit nmachinery for
th'e. ri;isiona of the treaty should beu
essiodiedii Li tsae treaty.
r:His motion seas lost bhi nine votes
t .soeb;-with New Zealasid abstaining
trum ,aoting.
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