MR. GROMYKO DOESN'T HELP SITUATION.

Chronicle (Levin), 10 July 1947, Page 5

MR. GROMYKO DOESN'T HELP SITUATION.

Received Wednesday, 7.0 p.m. NEW YORK, July 8. Alr. Gromyko today asked United Nations Seeurity Council to remove from Greece all foreign troo.ps ana a special eommission to administer American aid. He also introduced a resolution condemning Greece for eausing the Balkan border ineidents and blamed "foreign interference" for the existmg eonditions in Greece. Afr. Gromyko eharged that the Balkan Inquiry Commission's investigation was eondueted in a partial manner and that the proGreek witnesses were mostly prisoners under death sentenee who had been promised commutation of their sentences if they said what the Greek Government wantejd them to say. Mr. Gromyko said: "Democratie Greece is fightiqg,., against anti-demo-cratic Greece. The yelling about the Red danger is aim_e$: at, .hiding fropi world publie opiniQn the real danger of the events taking .place in Greece." He eharged that ' ' direet intervention ' ' in Greece had -been supplemented lateiy by sending to Greece "socalled military instructors and in supplying war equipment. All this leads to making the situation in the country more aeute. " Mr. Gromyko urged the Council to reverse the majority finding of the inquiry eommission. report that Albania, Yugoslavia and Bulgaria were primari]y responsible for the Balkan disorders. He said the delegates who wrote the majority report distorted 01* ignored the data they nad gathered. He said that

Rnssia could not aceept the American resolution for the establishment of a seinipermanent United Nations patrol along the borders of Greece and aer northern neighbonrs. He proposed, firstly, that Greece should stop the border ineidents; secondly, that Greece should establish normal diplomatie relations with each of her northern neighbours; thirdly, the four Balkan Governments should Bnter into frontier conventians for the settlement of the border ineidents; fourthly, the four Balkan Governments should settle the refugee problem in a spirit of mutual unaerstanding; fifthly, that Greece should remove any diserimination against Maeedonians and Albanians residing in Greece; sixthly, the four Governments should inform the Seeurity Council every three months on the carrying out of the foregoing reeommendations. The Associated Press eomments tha,t Mr. Gromyko 5s speech left the Council f arther ' than ever from a solution of the Balkan situation. In addition to the American resolution, which is based on the Inquiry Commission's report, the Council must now consider the Russian resolution.