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Chronicle (Levin), 15 June 1946, Page 5

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Press Assii.

America Insisting On Peace Treaty Policies RUSSIAN ATflTtJDE UNRNOWN

By Telegraph

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Received Saturddy, ii.15 d.tti. LdifDoM, Jtmg 14. The American view qf the pfdspects for a Foreign MinistdrS5, ing is that Russia and Aiiieridaf dre in just as much a deadldck abotit the peace treaties as they wdfg iast month, says the Associated iPfdgg o'f Great Britain's Paris cbttespb'ttdShi. Sources close to the U.S. Sebffetary of State, Mr. J. F. Rrynes, tbld the correspondent that thbt'b had beeri no diplomatic exchahfbS Bbcween Moscow' and Washington since the May meetings. If the Russians had relented. in their demands, which could only b£r learned when the meeting was reconvened, the Americans on the other hand continued to insist on the policies' anunciated by Mr. Byrnes in May, namely, that Trieste should go to Italy, that the Balkans be opened to Western trade, that Italy's reparaLions be scaled accordihg to her ability to pay, and also that Britain, France, Russia and America shbtild jign a twenty-five-year pact aeainst German rearmament. The Times Paris correspondent ays that because of past failures, the present meeting is likely to be decisive one way or the other. Thc vfinisters cannot go on meeting and adjourning without agreement. Success would mean that separatist tendencies would be arrested ahd nerhaps reversed. Another failure, it was generally thought in Paris, would almost inevitably result in a division of Europe.