DISSATISFACTION EXPRESSED.

Chronicle (Levin), 6 May 1946, Page 5

DISSATISFACTION EXPRESSED.

\ Reeeived Sunday 7.20 p.m. ' LONDON, Alay 5. A'nong the Dominion Ministers in "uidun there is a growing dissatisfaction ovcr the trend of the Foreign ^bni-tcrs' eonferenee, says the Observer's Fiiilianientary correspondent. They '"oi peaeemaking is not a matter to be I'andied behind closed doors by a few big Powers. All countries which fougkt for victory should have a voige i'i llm proceedings before hard and fast sfl1 lonients and bargains were made. Hr. Evatt was chief ^spokesman for tliis view. Last autumn the main point seeniod won when the Moscow meeting tlie Big Three Foreign Ministers jiffroed that peace treaties should be snhmitted in draft to a full peace confcrence of all belligerehts to l)e held at frhis tliis nianth. The Dominion repre'entatives now fear this ari'angement Ny be abandoned. Tf owing to failure, lip Foreign Ministers agree to ^ the it'.aee eonferenee being indelinitely

! postponed, it will .mean that , unjust grievances breediifg de facto settle- ' ments, will be left to remain in force ! without the smaller countries having 1 had a ehauce to influence theni. Dr. j Evatt "s view is that a breakdown of | the Foreign . Ministers' eonferenee i should be taken not as a reason for | postponing the peace eonferenee but a j reason for sunnnoning it immediatelv. He believes there would be a mu^li ' better prospect of overcoming obstacles if proceedings moved to a wider stage J where pressure of publie opinion couhl j be brought to bear on them, where 1 countries outside the big Power ring j eould speak for the wider interests of j mankind. 1