"ITALY WAS LEFT with an ALIBI that the agreement and the BORDERLINE were PROVISIONAL, allowing both the thesis of Italian sovereignty over FTT to exist intact and the related theoretical aspiration for a future return of Italy to zone B, as it had been promised by the Allies on the occasion of ELECTIONS in 1948.
The Memorandum, in fact, made reference only to PRATICAL arrangements for the TRANSFER of ADMINISTRATION, but NO TRANSFER of SOVEREIGNTY was planned."
"On the assumption that the London agreement was just atemporary accommodation of the border, Italian governments decided to normalize relations with Yugoslavia, with a series of successive bilateral agreements such as the agreement of Udine in 1955 which regulated the flow of people and goods between the region of Trieste and the surrounding areas, and the agreement on fishing in the Adriatic in 1958."
"Italy’s government, however, aimed at separating the two issues, deriving the definition of the northern border from the Peace Treaty.."
