PARIS TREATY DISCUSSIONS

Press, Volume LXXXII, Issue 24911, 26 June 1946, Page 7

PARIS TREATY DISCUSSIONS

NO AGREEMENT ON . MAIN POINTS

LONDON, June 24. "The Foreign Ministers tailed to reach agreement on any of the main points discussed during the formal session this afterryjjgi,” says Reuter’s correspondent in Paris. “The points were the French-Italian frontier, the limitation of the Italian navy, and the freedom of navigation on the Danube. “The Ministers agreed to Mr Bevin’s proposal that the personal injuries clause should be withdrawn from the Rumanian treaty. “They referred to their deputies another BHtish proposal that an arbitration tribunal should be established to settle disputes in ■ carrying out the Rumanian treaty.

“The Ministers decided that the strip of territory in the Adige region of the Italian-Austrian frontier claimed by Austria should remain Italian. They agreed to Instruct the deputies to investigate whether Austria and Italy could reach a mutually advantageous arrangement in regard to the use of the railways in this area, failing which, guarantees to Austria concerning the use of sections of the Inns-bruck-Linz railway should be written into the Italian treaty. “Mr Molotov, before the formal session, had a private talk with Mr Byrnes, and later Mr Bevin and Mr Byrnes dined together. “Mr Molotov to-day had what- was described as a cordial talk with the Hungarian Prime Minister (Mr Nagy) about Hungarian border questions. Mr Nagy, who hopes later to put hie case before the assembled Ministers, told correspondents that he would ask the Ministers to reconsider last month's decision that Transylvania should belong to Rumania. He said he favoured freedom of commerce between Hungary and all Allied nations on equal terms.” The Supreme Allied Commander in the Mediterranean (Lieutenant-Gene-ral Morgan) has issued a statement denying reports circulating in Venezia Giulia that the demarcation line between Zone A' (the British-Ameri. can zone) and Zone B (the Jugoslav zone) was to be moved five miles and a half eastward, and also that large numbers of Chetnik and Ustashi troops wearing American uniforms had been observed in Zone A. Lieutenant-Gen-eral Morgan reaffirms that Britain and America intend maintaining their present position in Venezia Giulia until the future of the territory is settled, The Italian Foreign Office has announced that Italy and ("-eece have resumed diplomatic relations.

EXCOMMUNICATED BY

CHURCH

' EMPLOYEES OF FOUR COMMUNIST PAPERS (Rec. 8 p.m.) LONDON, June 24. •‘The Archbishop of Gorlzja ha# excommunicated ail the editorial and technical employees ot four Communist newspapers which have been cam, paigning against the Church." says the Rome correspondent of the Associated Press quoting a dispatch from Trieste. Three of the newspapers are Italian, and the other is Jugoslav. The Archbishop has also excommunicated "all persons spreading the opinion of these papers."

Germans’ Desire to Emigrate.—The Russian-licensed Berlin newspaper “NighA Express' ’ asked its readers, “Would vou. if possible move out of Germany?" The result of the . poll was that 74.6 per cent, replied "Yes,” and 25.4 per cent, said No. The newspaper did not ask them which country they would like to move to,— Berlin, June 25-