WILL MEET BRITAIN AND FRANCE ON MARSHALL OFFER TO EUROPE

Chronicle (Levin), 24 June 1947, Page 5

WILL MEET BRITAIN AND FRANCE ON MARSHALL OFFER TO EUROPE

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Received Monday, 7.20 p.m. LONDON, June 23. The Soviet Government has agreed to coni'er with th'e Br.tish and Frenc.li Foreign Ministers on the Marshall plan, at a meeting at Paris on ,June 27. Moscow radio said Russia had sent identical notes to Britain and France which said: "The Soviet Government agrees that the Enropean eountries' primary task is the speediest possible rehabilitation and i'urther developinent of their national economies disrupted by the war. The selt'-evident task equld be faeilitated if assistanee eonforming to these aims were rendered by United States whose production potentialities increased rather than declined during the war. Although the S.oviet Government thus far possesses no ini'ormation coneerning the nature and terms of the possible economie assistanee to Enropean eountries i'rom Enited States or concorning the measures which the British and Freheli Governments discussed during negotiations at Paris, the Soviet Government nevertheless agrees to participate in a conference of the three Foreign Ministers." The Associated Press has pointed out that Russia's aceeptanee of the Anglo-French invitation to eonfer on the Marshall plan eame came on ihe day wliich had been set as the deadline. It added that the Russians did not aetually name their representative but as thev speeilied the eonferenee should be among the "Foreign Ministers," it is assumed Mr. Molotov would be the Soviet spokesman.