GOOD PROGRESS AT PEACE CONFERENCE

Chronicle (Levin), 6 August 1946, Page 5

GOOD PROGRESS AT PEACE CONFERENCE

SMALLER NATIONS GET THEIR CHANCES Received Alonday, 7 p.m. PARIS, August 4. "The Peace Conference is making.ex:cellent progress, and t>he small nations are gettiug a real opportunity to exjiress their views, " said Mr. Byrnes to correspondents. American circles express the opinion .hat, when the Procedure Commission meets tomorrow, Ylr. Byrnes intends to support the British proposal on voting ■ procedure. (The- British compromise : appeal suggests that both conferenee recomiueudations adopted by a two- , i Birds majority and those which obtain m simple majority below two-thirds iliouhl be submittecL -to. tire l1 oreigu \Iinisters ' Council). The niedium Powers' struggle to get Ihe Paris Conference organised more liberally or ''more demoeratically is ,-ertaiu to be waged again with new intensity tomorrow, says the Paris correspondent of the Times. The group is not dovvncast by the defeat on Saturday of Dr. Evatt and the others, and is reierving its heavier arguments against the voting rules. Whether it can prerail is highlv doubtful. Soviet opposition to any change is strong and well -organised. Further, the argument that nothing must be done to shake the I- oui Power unity is gaining support among the Xorwegians and tlie other delega tions, making them follow the Four Power lead in cases of doubt. When the Rules Cominittee met again Brazil supported Holland's aiuendmeni to draft rules that a simple majority s-hould operate in the Peace Conference voting. yir van .Starkenborgh (Holland) opposed the British . pla-n - 'for -the .two grades recomuiendajiions' oFthe- ^.oreigiL Mihisters; onb«with^ ity and oue- utirlfer 'twq-thirds-^.'t jS^-'sug-■gested that Mr. B'ynxes"s stktemen'i That he would endeavour to see any conference recommendation carried out by the Big Four, would be more acceptable if Mr. Byrnes didn't also support the Big Four's insistence on a twothirds majority. With the Big Four-s votes assured against ainendments to the draft" treaties, a two-thirds majority would be almost impossible to achieve. Mr. Kardelj (Yugoslavia) said tne simple nfajority uule' would upset satisfaetory solutions being reached by tne Foreign Ministers' Council with smau nations joining "certain large nations'' to gain their point of view. The treaties should be written by the Great Powers who waged war carrying the greater burden.