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              -4- #660, Eighteenth from London              
 
                                                            
 
 
been the policy of this government in all countries. That 
      is our only aim, our only interest, and our only care. It is 
      to that goal that we try to make our way across all the difficulties, 
      obstacles and perils of the long road. Trust the people, make 
      sure they have a fair chance to decide their destiny without 
      being terrorized from either quarter or regimented. There is 
      our policy for Italy, for Yugoslavia and for Greece. What other 
      interests have we than that? For that we shall strive and for 
                           that alone.                      
 
      The general principle, which I have enunciated, guides us in 
      our relations with Yugoslavia. We have no special interest in 
      the political regime, which prevails in Yugoslavia. Few people 
      in Britain I imagine are going to be more cheerful or more downcast 
      because of the future constitution of Yugoslavia. However, because 
      the King and the Royal Yugoslav Government took refuge with us 
      at the time of the German invasion we have acquired a certain 
      duty towards the government and peoples on the other side of 
      the Adriatic which can only be discharged in a correct and formal 
      manner such as, for instance, would be provided by a plebiscite. 
      I am the earliest outside supporter of Marshal Tito. It is more 
      than a year since in this House I extolled his Guerilla virtues 
      to 
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