ALL READY FOR TALKS

Chronicle (Levin), 10 March 1947, Page 5

ALL READY FOR TALKS

Press Assn.

Big Four Delegates Arrive In Moscow PRESS FEATURES MR. REVIN

By Telegraph

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Received Monday, 11.15 a.m. MOSCOW, March 9. The Russian Press and Home and Foreign Radio featured: Mr. Bevin's arrival and quoted verbatim his greetings to the Russian people from the British Commonwealth. The newspapers published on the front page a three column picture showing a smiling M. Vyshinsky walking with a rather glum Mr. Bevin. The British Ambassador, Sir Maurice Peterson, and the New Zealand Minister, Mr. Boswell, are also pictured. The U.S. Secretary -of State, Mr. G. C. Marshall, and French Minister of Foreign Affairs, M. Bidault, arrived in Moscow today. " Today, on the eve of the big four talks, Mr. Bevin and M. Molotov celebrated their birthdays. Mr. Bevin is aged 66, and M. Molotov 57.

The Foreign Ministers' Gon-fer-ence will open at 2 p.m. (G.M.T.) tomorrow at Moscow Aviation Club. M. Molotov will preside. The agenda and precedure are expected to be the sole questions discussed tomorrow. Mr. Bevin, after calling on Mr. Marshall and M. Bidault today, held a meeting of the British delegation and then visited M. Molotov at the Kremlin. The newspaper New Tirnes saysthat the British-American plan for a Federated Germany and Russian plans for a centralised Government are the basis of disagreement between the Western Powers and Russia. The Anglo - American scheme for a split Germany is intended to convert western Germany into the arsenal of a western bloc in preparation for a campaign against Russia. There are hopes that the conference will be a suecess, because this disagr„eement must be solved. The New Times calls the predictions of the conference's failure "the tiresome and well paid propaganda of professional pessimists-, and the wishful thinking of the reactionary camp." The American News Agency's newspapers in New York reported that with the lifting of the Russian eensorship for the duration of the Big Four conference, messages from their Moscow correspondents are arriving today with about a two hours' delay instead of an average of eight hours under the censorship. The Russians, however, are still eensoring non-conferenee news.