U.S. Army Captain John P. Simoni was an exasperated man last week. The AMG's chief educational officer in disputed Trieste perspired and wrung his hands. To New York Herald Tribune Correspondent Barrett McGurn he stormed: "What do children of grammar and junior high school age know about politics?"
Captain Simoni's agitation was caused by the behavior of students in Trieste's Slovene-language schools. It was far beyond anything in his experience as a fine arts professor in a Kansas university. On a visit to the schools he had been shocked to see "walls just plastered with inscriptions reading 'Viva Tito,' 'Viva...
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