Mr. Bevin Makes Demand for Internationalisation

Chronicle (Levin), 20 May 1946, Page 5

Mr. Bevin Makes Demand for Internationalisation

Press Assn.

MINISTERS' FINAL SESSIONS

By Telegraph

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Received Monday, 10.30 a.m. LONDON, May 19. . During the final sessions of the FOreign Ministers' Conference Mr. Bevin demanded the internationalisation , of industries in Eastern Germany in the heart of the Rus-A-Jan occupation zone. This, says the ^Associated Press of Great Britain's Paris correspondent, is indicated in accounts made available to-day of the final sessions of the meeting. Mr. Bevin also called for a review of Germanv's eastern boundaries, including the areas under Polish administration, pointing out that the Big Three at Potsdam placed the area east of the Oder River "under Polish administration pending the peace settlement." Mr. Bevin, it is reported, contended that this meant the area not definitely ceded to Poland. The correspondent, quoting official sources, says Mr. Bevin raised the points during the discussion of the French demands for the political detachment of the Saar and the internationalisation of the Ruhr and Rhineland. He proposed that German questions should be examined as a whole. He pointed out that there was another highly industrialised German region in upper Silesia, where there should also be Allied supervision to guard against rearmament. M. Molotov, it is reported, replied that he had no instructions from his Government, and was not prepared to discuss the questions.