Original scientific paper
The Yugoslav Approach to Trieste June-September 1945 – Kardelj’s Draft Proposal at London Conference in September 1945
Dušan Nečak
; Filozofska fakulteta Univerza v Ljubljani, Ljubljana, Slovenija
Abstract
The paper considers a relatively unknown matter: an idea - a draft proposal for the City of Trieste authored by Edvard Kardelj. He agreed with and adopted in full the professional argumentation provided by primarily Slovenian and Croatian scholars. It refers to the period prior to the first session of the Council of Foreign Ministers in London in September 1945. In that meeting on 18 September 1945 the Yugoslav delegation headed by the then Vice President of the Federal Government, Edvard Kardelj, proposed a memorandum with the draft proposal for the City of Trieste. The draft was made between May and October 1945. It proposed complete autonomy for the City of Trieste as a seventh federal unit of the Democratic Federal Yugoslavia and the status of a free harbour under international management for the Port of Trieste. Even the opponents of Yugoslav requirements recognized the memorandum and its detailed argumentation. However, the Trieste destiny was determined by „high politics” in which professional argumentation did not carry special weight.
Keywords
Draft proposal for the City of Trieste; Council of Foreign Ministers; Edvard Kardelj; Yugoslavia; Italy
Hrčak ID:
35548
URI
Publication date:
15.12.2008.
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