English Translation

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, I should like to begin by thanking the President-in-Office of the Council for his excellent report, and I should also like to thank him for the excellent work he has done on this subject. So I know Mr Wilson's question as follows: to say that Lie Bevölkarumg of the Cebiete, i.e. this is here, is ceutsch or Slavic in its circumferential majority, and both Vsslkers would have felt it an unbearable yoke, a frem- den State, with which they have never had the slightest community of interests, Cefemel ocor lueen, to be subjugated with Cewelt, It is not possible, in any case, to take account of the way in which it can take account only of all its claims: what very best wishes of Italy "not as part of a mere compensation or compromise of the claims of rival bodies" (i.e. in this case of Austria-Hungary and Italy), soncern "in the interest and to Gumston of the affected populations" Italy is seeking the possession of Trieste and the uninhabited territory, inhabited by far more Slavs and Leuchts than Italians, whose population, including the Italian kinority, has lived in Austria for more than 400 years and would feel a union with Italy as the worst catastrophe, which would be the worst It aims at areas in the Karst Mountains, where the population is through Megs Slavic and 154