EFFORTS TO BREAK DEADLOCK.

Chronicle (Levin), 6 May 1946, Page 5

EFFORTS TO BREAK DEADLOCK.

Reeeived Sundav 7.5 p.ni. PARIS, May 5. The flrst sign of a possible Russian cfiii.proniise eame 011 tlie evening of the lcinh day of the Foreign Ministers' ci.nirienee when Mr. .Molotov suggested : ii;-t if Yugoslavia \s elairns eould be Licl on Trieste, the question perh.aps of Italy's elaims eould be met on rejianOinns and eolonies. The question incl a eold reeeption, Mr. Bevin reji;iukin»: "I dou't see how you ean kirguin peoples against something clse. ' ' Thereafter Mr. Byrnes made eiforts to int-ak the still eontinuing deadloek iiv proposing a plebiseite under Allied coiiiiol in tlie area between the Russian ainl American proposed frontier lines, to !cj the people deeide whether they wishod to be under Italian or Yugoslav nile. Mi. Bevin and M. Bidault, however, iinlh-ated that they felt a plebiseite wmiid be gotting awav from the principh- laid down in London last year timi a frontier line should be determinfil after an investigation based on (•th-'ii-al grounds. .Mr. .Molotov said that if a plebiseite lias held it should covor all Istria as well as Venezia Giulia. .V«» deeision was reaehed on Mr. I' vi nes ' proposal. open alignment of the Yugoslav 'lcle-ation behind Russia 's attitude, was revealed when Mr. Kardelj, the viee I'remier, at a press eonferenee said Yufi'islavia eould never aceept frontier line- proposed by British, American and Freneh experts. He added that he conhln't, at the moment, deelare that tlie Yugoslav Government would bind itself in advanee to aeeept the eonfer-cui-o's deeision if it weut against Y'ugoshuia's elaim.