European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 11, 1968, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Peg 4 the stars and strikes saturday May allies Washington a inlay 1945, Only a few Days after the German surrender Anglo american forces in Italy came dangerously close to an other War this Tirrie with mar Shal Tito s Yugoslavia diplomatic papers disclosed thurs  then Tito s partisans making Good use of months Long hesitation in London and Washington had occupied the Viet War chemicals total two Washington up the army has spent a Small for tune on chemical warfare re search since world War ii but defoliants and riot control Gas Are the Only chemicals that Are being used in the vietnamese War. The use of defoliants an crop destroying chemicals started in 1962 in an Effort to make the enemy More visible in the dense Jungle and to deprive him of Rice supplies. According to a Pentagon spokesman . Planes flew 107 missions in 1962 to defoliate 17,119 acres of Jungle and Spray 717 acres with a Rice destroying chemical. The acreage estimates a r based on the number of mis Sions flown and the Are sprayed by each plane on each Mission. In the following years Many areas were sprayed annually or even More often. The total area that was sprayed is therefore considerably smaller than indicated by the following figures 1963 34,517 acres sprayed with defoliants 297 acres sprayed with crop destroying agents 1964 53,873 acres defoliated 10,136 acres of crop sprayed 1965 94,726 acres defoliated 49,637 acres of crop sprayed first six months of 1966 775,894 acres ,112,678 acres of crops sprayed first nine months of 1967 843,606 acres defoliated 122, 400 acres of crops sprayed. The spokesman had no explanation of Why no figure were available for the second half of 1966."somebody must have lost a report or forgotten to file it he suggested. He said the Sharp jump i spraying activity after 1964 was fought Tito lust after a i a the result of massive North vietnamese troop movements into the South from that yearn unlike the local Viet Cong he said the North vietnamese could not rely on the Rice grow by local Farmers but had to raise their own to keep from starving this led to increased . Crop spraying  spokesman said the Only other item used in Vietnam that could be classified As a Chemi Cal weapon was tear  said it was the same Type of Gas As that used by police forces in Many countries Lor riot control purposes. Italian province of Vene i Giulia which includes the Isid an Peninsula in the Adriatic along with Trieste. / Field marshal Harold Alex Ander supreme commander in the Mediterranean and his american political adviser Alexander Kirk had warned their governments since february 1945 that a decision had Tobe made and Alexander permitted to occupy Trieste the most important port Ort the Adriatic and the Peninsula but Washington was Cool to the idea the documents disclosed. The diplomatic message were declassified by the state department  april 1945, British prime minister Winston Churchill Senta message to president Truman saying that it does not see to me there is a minute to  but Truman was not con Vinced. On april 30, informed that Tito s men had occupied Trieste and Pola the president according to a state depart ment report said he did not in tend to have american Force used to fight yugoslav forces nor did he wish to become involved in Balkan political ques  kept pressing. While the Allied forces will that s a Monkey Prince Philip of Brit Ain watches closely As a member of an indonesian dance troupe performs a Monkey dance in Denpasar Ball. It shows Bow Royal monkeys Rescue a Young Prince kidnapped by a giant. Philip was in route to Australia. A arrive in Trieste is  no claim to the Riff gains the yugoslavs we Frijas conquerors Chivini iffi8 hands on territory which Fol vehemently covet. We Al y entitled to act first and excl afterwards he p a cad on May 3, the stale did Arment acknowledged that be situation was explosive that the danger of a Clah a tween our forces and those marshal Tito was very Rea Alexander did not wait loner�3 la. Samc a i. His unit ser ered Trieste and i Ooth cities on the Peninsula causing Ito to write that a great in Justice is done to his  Kirk reported Nav 5 Tito insist but Tito insisted that he should be left the master of Venezia Lulia which he claimed for Yugoslavia. And Parent by it was Only then that the state department got Aner Truman changed his original reserved position. He told his aides May 10 at a White House meeting that he had come tothe conclusion that the Only solution was to throw them the yugoslavs  stiff notes were sent lobe Grade and though Tito gave ground slowly he insisted that his soldiers remain the occupying Force in lie Ocuin few Tusi a Ripon Root fat 1c, a Dart turf Normany. To a Jujj Roflox m1m �7i m Darmstadt air trip part fax am 741. To Voi off  i we Mutoli now Yorac 100h, Tou not by to Popai Imort of Dof Onao or any fit component. ,. The in item states it �