 After 1944, however, he became increasingly supportive of Josip Broz Tito’s partisan movement, believing that the Communists would be the only force able to achieve the annexation of the Slovenian Littoral and Istria to Yugoslavia, as well as the only ones capable to keep the country together.With the Paris Treaty of 1947, the Istrian peninsula and most of the Slovenian Littoral were annexed to the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.Gorizia and the Slovene-inhabited Venetian Slovenia remained part of Italy, while Trieste and the neighbouring villages were included in the Allied-administered Free Territory of Trieste.