FINAL TALK IMMINENT

Chronicle (Levin), 23 August 1948, Page 5

FINAL TALK IMMINENT

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Western Eiivoys To See Stalin Tension Reitiains High In Berlin

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Received Monday, 10.30 a.m. % . XONDON, August 22. * The Western enfoys in Moscowriare likely to go to ,th§ Kremlin within the next day oi two for what may be the final talk in the negotiations ovqr the Berlin crisis. ■ •A French Foreign Office spokebman said today tha^ Marshal Stalin is likely to receive the envoys very soon, possibly tomorrow or even tonight.

» Reuter's Moscow correspondent says that the envoys have now agreed on a line of approacfi. Big Four. talks are likely to be speedily fixed if Russia agrees in prineiple to the Western terms as a basis. Many observers in Moscow believe that the next conference between the envoys and rtussian representatives will be the final one, determining whether Four Power talks on the German crisis can be arranged. The envoys had a two hour meeting at the liome of the U.S. Ambassador, Lieut.-General Bedell Smith, today to discuss their plans. Meanwhile, in Berlin friction continues between the Russiansponsored and Western police, and tehsion is high. 4 British sector German police today arrested Franz Erdmann, director of the Russian sector criminal investigation department, ■ vvhile he was attending a boxing match at the Olympic Stadium, in the British sector. Western police threatened weeks ago to arrest Erdmann on charges of kidnapping several Western sector policemen when there was a split in the control of Berliil's police. Mr. Thomas Headen, United States information control officer, who strayed oVer the British demarkation . line in Potsdamer Platz into Soviet terriLory today, was arrested by RusJans and driven away in a jeep.