POTSDAM AGREEMENT

Chronicle (Levin), 21 March 1947, Page 5

POTSDAM AGREEMENT

ALL OTHERS SUPERSEDED Received Thursdav, 7 p.m. LOXDOX, A 1 arch 19.

A Foreign Oflice spokesman stated that the British, as iong ago as July, 1946, made it clear in a declaration to I the I'uited Btates, French and Boviet Governments, that the cdauses of the Potsdam Agreement referring to reparations pavments were regarded as superseding any earlier Great Power arrangements, consequently the Yalta protoeal, the text of which Mr. Molotov revealed yesterday, is deftnitely regarded bv the British Government as having been superseded by and not as being supplemented b}' the Potsdam Agreement. This is the same view as Atr Marshall expressed at Moscow yesterday. The British declaration was made on the: occasion of the merger of the British and American Zones wlien Britain, outlinijig the priuciples considered essential for carrying out the Potsdam Agreement, said: " ln any case the reparations agreement reached at Potsdam supersedes all previous agreements and discussions about reparations. " A message from Moscow says that Soviet and American rcpresentatives claslied over the use of the words "Xazi and Fascist" in a document relating to the Austrian Treaty at a uieeting of the Foreign Ministers' deputies. The Russians preferred to description Fascist. General Mark Clark said the Soviet Press liad used the word Fascist to refer not only to the Germans but also to members of the Allied nations. The New Times applied it recentlv to Mr. .Tohn Foster Dulles, a member of the American delegation now in Moscow. Mr. Gusev said that if they took evervtliing in the newspapers into their discussions, they would stray far from the immediate sub.ject. The deputies complered the review ot all the political clauses in the Austrian Treaty, but again made liltle headvvav vvitli the difTerenc.es which developed in London. ~