ITALIAN TREATY IS FIRST CONSIDERATION.

Chronicle (Levin), 6 November 1946, Page 5

ITALIAN TREATY IS FIRST CONSIDERATION.

Received Tuesdav, 7 p.m. XEW YORK, Nov. 4. The Foreign Ministers' conference agreed to hear Yugoslavia and Italy present arguments on the kind of Govermnent they believe United Nations shonld have over Trieste. The Associated Press says that arguments during

between Russia and the Western Powers over critical issues such as the control of Trieste. Nevertheless, tiiere were some agreements such as an understanding that while Yugoslavia and Italy might be. allowed to octnnient on Ihe projected boundaries of Trieste, tlie boundary issue would not thereby be reopened. Mr. Molotov, it is reported, was defeated on a proposal that after heariiig the Yugoslavs, the Foreign Ministers should delegate the question of constituting the Government for Trieste to their deputies, allowing the Y^ugoslavs to sit in the proceedings. It was agreed that the Italian peace treaty be considered first and tlien, respectively, the treaties proposed for Rumania, Bulgaria, Hungary aud Finlaud. The Foreign Ministers' task is to endeavour to reach a final decision on the Paris peace conference reeommendations on which they were not unani111 ous. The Foreign 'Ministers today considered certain points in the Italian treaty. Mr. Molotov objected to the inclusion therein.of the Italian-Austrian agreemeut guaranteeing language and other rights to German mino'rities in tlie Bol zand treaty provinces, which the Paris conference approved by fourteen votes to six. Argument broke out over other Pann conference reeommendations that Yugo-* slavia and Greece should receive equal reparations of 100,000,000 dollars each from Italy. Mr. Molotov insisted that Yugoslavia should be given a ration of two to one. Messrs Byrnes, Bevin, Couve and Demurville objected where--npon the question was deferred. "Ihe speed with whieh the Ministers plunged into tliek* work today, and the l'eadiivess with which they passed over disputed issues. instead of being bogged down in them, was coifsidered a reflfeetion of the long experience they had gained in peace treaty arguments.