LITTLE PROGRESS RESULTED

Chronicle (Levin), 20 May 1946, Page 5

LITTLE PROGRESS RESULTED

LOXDOX, May 17. Thc glooinniess wliirli prcredi'd t 1m* Doreign M inisl ers ' 1 'oiifercnei' has uafortunately heen conlirmed. On fjn 1 v oue ma 1 1 of any suhstanre did tliey agree — iiainely, revised iirinislice tcniis for Italy, which will ponui t her to resunie soniething likc liorinal political life witliout tlic army of occnpation. But as for the trinity with Italy a ii d dccisions on Tricslc, Austria, Bulgaria and Geruiaity, there was no linal'ity. In oue rospoct, however, tlic cnd of this confcrcTicc is botter tlian tlic ma nn cr in wliicli tlic tiilks cndcd in London last ycar, for tlic Ministers did not know wlicn tliey would nicct again. Xow tliey havc at least agreed tp ineci agaiu on .hmc 15. But it is rcinarkcd by tlic Spcctator tliiit it is liardlv possiblc to exaggerate tlic scriotisncss of thc snstiiincd disagrccincnts. for, \v 1 1 i 1 e tliey coiitinuc Enropc rcinains econonii-t-ally and politically paralyscd — tio longcr in :i statc of actual war, liiil not in sjght of anything likc peacc — a desperatc silnation, with no hopcful ontcoinc visible. It is rc])ortcd from Paris flint M r. P.yrncs will rctnrn to America in an un- ! Iiappv liiood, for Ihe Conference 's I'ailurc disapjioiiitcd liini as its initialor and in his capacity tis a statcsinan. It is likcly that Mr. Molotov is not' part icnlarlv cheerful cithcr, sinco it is iiclicvcd 'that his instructions wcrc to bring about a Kuropeun sct t icincnt, tliough on Pussian tcrnis. It is rcinarkcd that conceptions of iutcni.'il ionttl ordcr are still as different ' as tliey havc cvcr bccn. Moscow's eonception is still ti 1'ax Kussicti, with as uidc an area as possible, and all individual questions jndgcd in relation thcrcto. Mr. Molotov has rcniindcd tlic other Ministers of thc cniicessions he made, says thc Tinies, by agrecing that Francc should parttikc in thc Balkan -discus~ions, v ithdrau ing his demand for ti trnstccship iivcr Tripolitania, ofTering to withdraw thc Russian troops from Bnlgaria if thc Allicd troops wcrc wittidrawn from ltaly, and coniing ncar to .'igroeing that thc Podccancsc should b'* htindcd ovcr to (ircccc. Mcssrs By rites and Bevin. whilc wclcouiing Francc's ptirt icipation. do not look on thc Tripolitniiian withdrawal as ti conccssion, and rccall that in l.ondon it was agreed that all troops should be withdrawn from Bulgaria. 'Finis tlic agrccnicnt to disagrec conlinucs, and whether any furthcr proaress will bc nmdc in .June is anvbody's] trucss. i