ABSTRACT
This essay first appeared as a pamphlet published in 1945 by the Yugoslav Information Officer. It was reprinted with the 1949 postscript in A.J.P. Taylor's first collection of essays, From Napoleon to Stalin: Comments on European History (London, Hamish Hamilton, 1950).
Alan Taylor was the most prominent non-Yugoslav supporter of the case that Trieste should go to Yugoslavia at the end of the Second World War, rather than to Italy or be a free city. In the New Statesman and Nation, 28, 720 (9 December 1944) he argued the case for Istria and Trieste more rationally belonging to Yugoslavia and observed, 'we can be more confident of the future of the Anglo-Soviet alliance when we have learnt to think of Trieste as Trst'. After the publication of the pamphlet government figures complained to the BBC about his talk on Trieste, part of a BBC radio Home Service programme on the subject of 'Russia's return as a Great Power'.
