Still Silent On Talks But General Clay Sees No Signs Of Policy Change

Chronicle (Levin), 17 August 1948, Page 5

Still Silent On Talks But General Clay Sees No Signs Of Policy Change

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Received Tuesday, 11.20 a.m. LONDON, August 17. The Western envoys at Moscow returned to the British 'Embassy from the longest Kremlin conference yet. It lasted three hours 40 minutes. The envoys refused to comment and would not state whether they considered another meeting was possible. The envoys conferred at the American Embassy just before going to the Kremlin.

MINISTERS MEET In London, ministers met in the cabinet offices late in the afiernoon. Mr. Herbert Morrison, Mr. Ernest Bevin, Sir Stafford Cripps and the service chiefs were present. Speaking at Frankfurt, the United States military Governor, General Lucius Clay, said today: "I see no indication of any change in the Western Powers' policy towards Western Germany or any abandoning of the preparation for the creation of a provisional government. Of course, I do not know what decisions may be reached in Moscow." General Clay denied a suggestion that he and his principal advisers were threatening to resign if the Western Germany policy was changed. British officials in Berlin said the Russian authorities had ordered farmers in the Russian zone to -harvest crops immediately whether they were ripe or not. Crops are being harvested night and day. It is believed that the order is a result of the Russian offer 'in July to feed the whole of Berlin.