CLASH WITH MR. MOLOTOV
Recoived Sunday, 7 p.m. LONDON, May 11. Mr. Byrnes, at the foreign Ministers' conference, aecepted Mr. Molotov 's demand for 100,000,000 dollars' reparation from Italy but imposed eonditions which led to a elasli with Mr. Molotov, says the Associated Press ' Paris correspondent, quoting an American informant. Mr. Byrnes stipulated that reparations should only -be obtained firstlv from Italian assets abrocud, sccondly from excess industrial equipment in former munitions factories, thirdly from merchant shipping and fourthiy from naval vessels. Mr. Molotov immediately claimed that naval vessels were legitimate booty and should be apportioned as such and not as reparations. Mr. Byrnes retorted that war booty could be claimed only by the captors. The Russians had captured no Italian naval vessels. The attitude of Mr. Bevin and M. Bidault to the proposals was not immediately disclosed.
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Chronicle (Levin), 13 May 1946, Page 8
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