"LITTLE SIX" HAVE PLAN

Chronicle (Levin), 11 October 1948, Page 5

"LITTLE SIX" HAVE PLAN

Received Sunday, 7 p.m. PARIS, Oct. 9. Mr. Vyshinsky is reliably reported by United Nations sources to have forwarded to the Kremlin a plan for the "Little Six" in the Security Council to solve the Berlin crisis. says the Associated Press correspondent. These sources said that the need to wait for the Kremlin's reply caused the Little Six who comprise Argentina, Canada, China, Belgium, Colombia and Syria, to favour delaying until October 12 or later, the next council meeting on the Berlin dispute. The nature of the plan has not been disclosed. The delay in the meeting would give the council president, . Dr. Bramuglia, more time for go-between work towards mediation. The Little Six Powers are believed to be thinking in terms of a joint Six Power declaration ap-! pealing to the Big Four to compose their differences in a smrit of mutual concession and co-opera-tion. RUSSIANS ADMIT ECONOMIC DIFFICULTIES The Russians today publicly ac-

knowledged economic dfficulties in their zone of Germany and blamed them in part on the Allies' counter blockade. This information was contained in a report published in the oflicial Soviet newspaper, Tageliche Rundschau, and quoted by the Associated Press' correspondent. The report said that there had been "exceptional difhculties" in industrial production and that the production targets in several fields nad not been fulfilled during the third quarter of the year. The lag ■ in steel and metal production was blamed on the "lack of machinery which formerly came frotn Western Germany." The American Military Government's ofRcial German newspaper, Die Neue Zeitung, said that the production figures had proved very dfisappointing to the Russians, especially those of the socialised industries. It added that it was espeeially painful for the German Communists and the Soviets that the enterprises remaining in private hands came nearer fulfilling the production quotas than the State-owned industries. This was especially true of tlie Saxon textile industry.