FAILURE OF TALKS FEARED

Chronicle (Levin), 18 August 1948, Page 5

FAILURE OF TALKS FEARED

Reeeived Wednesday, 12.3 a.m. LONDON, August 17. London diplomatic - quarters believe Ihe Foit r-Powei Kremlin meetiiig yesterday again failed (o produce a baSL J'or Four-l'ower negotiations on Ger-' inany, says Reuter 's diploniatie eorres]>ondent. It is thought that the Western envoys will seek a furthef 'talk vvitli M ardlui Stalin. I !' Ko refused an mter view oi- if sueli an interview- failed, it was believed .M r. Roberts would be rcealied soon aftorwanls and the altempl to seeure a further Four-l'ower confeienee on Oermany abandoned. A British Foreign OHiee spokesman denied press reports that the Western 1'owers at the Kremlin yesterday, l'ormally ofl'ored to postpone the creation of a West German Government m return for the raising of the Berlin bloekade. lle said the intention of the Wesfern Governments to go ahead with ihe creation of a West German Parliamentary Assenibly was unchanged. The American licensed Tagesspiege!. jiublished in Berlin, says the Oommunist leader, llerinann AIatoni, tohi the Soi-iiilist Fnited Party that Russia demanded a share in the eonirol of the 5sto.hr as a eondition for the resumption of Four-l'ower government in Berlin.

The British licensed Sozial- Demokrat rtated that feeling is growing in West, ern eapitals that Berlin is reaJly Ttorth u war. The Belgian Foreign Minister, M. Kpaak, is report ed to have tohi Mr. Lrnest Bevin a week ago that this was his o])inion.