PARIS MEETING WILL NOT BE FINAL CONFERENCE

Chronicle (Levin), 29 July 1946, Page 5

PARIS MEETING WILL NOT BE FINAL CONFERENCE

Press Assn.'

By Telegraph

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Received Monday, 11.35 a.m. LONDON, July 28. The Paris conference will in no sense be the full or final peace conference, and it will deal neither with Germany, Austria or Japan, says Reuter's Paris correspondent. The Moscow Foreign Ministers' conference last September laid down that after consideration by the twenty-one nations ^ the . five peace treaties will be returned for final ratification to those of the Big Four who are respectively the signatories of the armistices with the enemy countries concerned. Smaller powers,, basing themselves on the Atlantic and United Nations' Charters, are expected to approaeh the peace settlement from a more idealistic standpoint than the Big Four. Only the conference itself will show just hoW "far they are ready to press for a reversal of the major decisions, which in some cases are unquestionably the result of power politics' fa'ther than United Nations' ideals. v The first clue as to whether a challenge is likely to come from the smaller powers will come early, when the rules of procedure are discussed. On the other hand some Allied powers, which hitherto have had no opportunity of taking a direct part in the shaping of -the peace settlement, probably will rriake both general and detailed criticisms of the work of the Big Four,