Translation of Memorandum from Yugoslav Representative  
             Vatican City., September 24, 1942              
 
                                                            
 
 
1. Over a long period-of years no authoritative  
voice has made itself heard publicly against the toteli-  
tarien regime. The political victims of the regime are  
almost exclusively the young Slavs of Trieste and Goritzia,  
a large number of whom were executed during the past twenty  
                           years.                           
 
                                                            
 
 
2. It is said that there are some military personal-  
ities (Badoglio and a few others) who do not approve fight-  
ing on Germany's side, but these personalities have always  
obeyed, and received titles, promotions, and other favors  
from the regime, and either retired or were removed only  
                    after their failure.                    
 
                                                            
 
 
3. No hope is to be placed in the Dynasty, which has  
always shown the most absolute submission to the regime,  
a submission that goes so far as to acknowledge the right  
of the Grand Council of the Party to change the order of  
                 succession to the throne.                  
 
                                                            
 
 
4. It is true that grumblings and secret criticism  
are very frequent. It is a kind of fashion, even among the  
high "hierarchs" of the party and Mussolini's close cella-  
boraters. But one must not look among ideological reasons  
for the motives of this criticism; they are rather motives  
of a practical character. If there is a bread shortage and if the war news   
is bed, criticism increases; if, on the contrary, the news is good and   
hunger less acute, criticism  
                        diminishes|