PEACE CONFERENCE OPENS

Chronicle (Levin), 30 July 1946, Page 5

PEACE CONFERENCE OPENS

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«. FRENCH PREMIER STRESSES GREAT TASK

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a Received Tuesday, 12.35 p.m. PARIS, July 29. The French Prime Minister, M. George Bidault, formally opened the Peaee Conference this afternoon. M. Bidault arrived at Luxembourg Palace at 3.10 p.m. to receive the heads of the delegations, who began arriving a few minutes later. 5 Hundreds of police controlled the large crowds in the vicinity, where extreme security measures were taken. Armed police were eVen stationed on the roof of the Palace, with a clear vrew of the approaches and surrounding streets.

In his opening speech, M. Bidaul said: "We are convinced that all our countries will work in common accord and a spirit of friendly cooperation on the important task submitted to them." M. Bidault said that this was the second time in thirty years that representatives of worid gpvernments had assembled in France to make peace. France, for the second time, was in the forefront of the nations who had fought for democracy. "If we cannot get complete peace solutions, I hope that at least we can get reasonable ones. The immense hope of plain men is turned toward us to banisli for- . I

ever the bad omen of unhagpiness, and found a world delivered from the plague of war. We have all suffered while trying to banish it. Now is the hour to begin to succeed." M. Bidault added that the basic reason for the failure of the efforts to prevent war after 1918 was an absence of two great powers from the peace settlement, but that weakness no longer existed. Tne international concert of powers was already in existence. The speech lasted twenty minutes and concluded amid thunderous applause. The conference adjourned until ! to-morrow.