Allies Determined To Stay In Berlin

Chronicle (Levin), 27 March 1948, Page 5

Allies Determined To Stay In Berlin

Beeeived Friday, 7.20 p.m. LOXDOX, March 26. Tlie Secretary of State (Mr. GeorgtMarshall) said today that the L'nited States is deterniined to stay in Berlin despite Soviet ell'orts to disrupt four Power controJ thcre. ■ ' ' In aeeordanci with the international agreement bind ing on all four control Powers tlul'nited States intends to continue to fullil its responsibilities as a meinbei of the Control CpunciJ and as a joint oecupant of tlie eity of Berlin." The Dailv Telegraph's Berlin eorres pondent says Ameriean sources stati that if Marshal Sokolovskv refuses to ••all a meeting of the Allied Controi Couneil fqr March 50 and abstaiiufroni attending the meeting whieh wii. then be ealled by General Clay foi April 10, the Western Fovvers ' uiilitars govprnors will refer tlie whdle questioii of the deadloek on four-l'ower eontro. 10 their Govetumenls The latler vvotvju ilien make ti linai attempt to obtaiii ltussian eooperation, l'aihng whieh tiie.. would proeeed on an entirely tripartitc basis. lueutenant-General G. S. Lukjantschenko, ehiel' of staft' of the Soviet military admiuistration in Germany, in ti statement ciivuluted last night by tln llustiian-eontrolled Gernian news agenev, sanl Jlussia favoured four Power control of Germany and wishon to retainLhe Control Couneil to earr\ out the resolutions of the Potsdam Confprpnce, but was coipplelely opposm. 0 tlie CouneiJ lieing used as a sereen by the Jiritis-h, Ameriean, s and Freneh lii (lisguise their sDiitl iiiif tacties in

Ihe western zones. He added that the western occupation Powers were whoJl\ responsible for tlie pre.sent deadloek over l'our-Bo.\yer rule. The British Xote, replying to thi second Bussian protest against the London three-Power eonferenee on Ger many, blames Eussia for tlie break down of the four-Power control maehin ery in Germany, The Xote say.Kussin's refusal to allow eonditions t exist in Germany whieh are essentia for the wellbeing of Furope has lieen aiuply demonstrated by her aetious in the Control (.'oujipil and tlie Foreign Ministers' Couneil and in all aspocts oi her poliey of political and ecoiiomiidiscriiiiination dn the Soviet-ocpupieu zone. _ tfcnpral Clay said he "was hot tlie lpast bit apprelienslye " about the mili tary situatign in Germany as a resiill of the reeeut tension in Berlin. Gen eral Clav added that he liad UO fears that tlie Kussians would closp tlu borders of Eusterii Germany Or thi highways foi: suppiies from the Britigli aml Am.ericun zon.es to Berlin. He sai« the dpa.dloek betwpen Kuspia aiij thi 'Western Allips i» Berlin oy.er thp four Power rtfle of Geriiiauy jvas a political not a military situation. He predietcd tliat it would b.e clari lie.d soony hot said Ihe Wes'tprn Po'W'er> would nqt discuss in the Control Coun cil tlie recoinnieudation.s of the London tjiree-Power eonferenee uiitil ihe re speetiVe Gpvergwpnts hcted op thein.