NO REILY TO SOVIET UNTIL MR. BEVIN RETURNS

Chronicle (Levin), 20 July 1948, Page 5

NO REILY TO SOVIET UNTIL MR. BEVIN RETURNS

Received Tuesday, 10.40 a.m. LONDON, July 19. No reply will be sent to the Soviet note rejectin'g the demand for the lifting of the Berlin blockade until after the' British For'eigh Secretary, Mr. Ernest Bevin, returns from The Hague conferenee on Juiy 21, says Reuter's diplomatic correspondent. Tne United Staces Military Governor, Generai . Lucius Clay, at tne end of a conferenee of Western commanders-in-chief in Berlin, said phat the Berlin crisis was not discussed. He and his two- colle.qgqe? would meet the eleven Prpniiers of the West German States in Frankfurt tomorrow to continue discussions on the London six-pqwer proposals on Western Germany.' The German news agency said thq,t the Min.ary Government of the Western Sectors of Benin, to conserve fuci stocxs, have oraered all food manufaciuring enterprises with the exception of bakeries and margarine factories to close down immecuately. Cer-ain other organisution? have been barred lrom u§ing solid fuel stocks except for preparing mid-day meals. Reuter's diplomatic correspondent says it is learned in London Dhat the British and American air lift to Berlin will .coptinue without interruption, no matter if Soviet planes announce their intention to fly in the three air corridors. The statement followed a Russian v/arning in Berlin that four. groups cf Yak fighters would fly in'the air cprridor§ toflay. Tlie Soviet-licensed newspaper Nacht Express says th^t the British Press is in the grip of' a "war psychosis. There are grounds for believing, hpwever, that the politicians have more sense than the militarists. The sensible way out is to restore the force of the Potsdam agreement." "