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Chronicle (Levin), 10 July 1946, Page 5

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Press Assn,

Invitations To The Peace Conference FOREIGN M1NISTERS AGREE

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LONDON, July 8. The Foreign Ministers at the encl of the evenmg- session reachecl an agreement on the peace coni'erence invitations issue and Reii» ter's Paris correspondent added that the invitations to the conferuiee will go out tomorroAv. The Foreign Ministers also agreed that the draft rules of procedure for the peace conference should he studied by their cleputies and referred back to the Ministers at their next session tomorroAV. Reuter's Paris correspondent describes the agTeement as a eompromise in which each side appears to have conceded and secured one basic point. Russia succeedecl in carrying the principle that the invitations and rules of procedure shall be considered. if not actually issuecl, simultan.eously. The Western Powers secured an agreement that the rules of procedure shall ])(- ouly proposed, lcaving thev peace conference free to amend or suspend thera. Mr. Byrnes at the morning session of the Foreign Ministers' Gonf'erenco proposed that the Ministers record thoir vote on the question of whether the decision reached on .Tuly 4 to issue invitations to the peace conference should be implemented immediately. AT r. Molotov Avas the only dissentient. He described Mr. Byrnes' submission as "an outrageous imposition of American will upon the conference." Mr. Molo tov added that there Avas no question of anvone Avanting to alter the conference date, but he insisted that the proposed rules of procedure should be submitted lo the a-arious Governments simultanoously witlx the invitations. The conference adjourned till the evening aa'hen the Ministers strove for the utmost infonnality in an effort to crack the peace conference invitations deadlock, says Reuter's Paris correspondent. The table Avas removed a*d the Ministers lounged in armchairs, talking niore in a elubroom atmosphere than that of a formal conference. The correspondent said that Mr. Molofov's object in blocking the immediate issue of the peace conference invitations appeared to be to obtain a mini nium guarantee that the 21 nations should not have unlimited power. Mr. Molotov 's proposed procedural rules suggest that in considering each of the five treaties Avith Italy, Rumania, Hungary, Bulgaria and Finland, there should be in each case a steering com niittee composed of those countries Avhich actually fought against the for mer ex-enemy nation in cpiestion. .Steering coinmittees Avouhl limit the peace conference 's power to modify any previous Big Four agreement.