Soviet Wants Four-Power Control

Chronicle (Levin), 25 May 1949, Page 5

Soviet Wants Four-Power Control

Reeeived Wednesday, 10.35 a.m. PARIS, May 24. I The Soviet Foreign Minister, Mr. Vv.diinsky, asked for Four-Power v nomic control of the Ruhr and proposed a return to the Fourp rver Control Council. for Gerir.any, with a German 'administrative body under its direction in Berlin, when the Big Four Foreign Ministers began their second meetin. of the present session today. They were discussing the first it'on on their agenda — the problems of German unity, including economic and political principles and Four-Bower control. The Western Foreign Ministers, in 'heir reply, stressed their deterrn; nation not to discard the proerr,ss which had been made in Western Germany. and said that to go br.ck to the old ways would only

be detrimental. I The atmosphe're of today1 's meeting was cairn and not at any point hostile. Mr Vyshinsky, speaking first, said that the best method of international control of the Ruhr (which is now under a Six-Power authority made up of Britain, France, the United States and the Benelux Powers) would be to create a bodv representative of the Four Powers, with representatives of the others States borderin-g on Germany sitting on it in a consultatve capacity. German economc bodies should also be represehted. He then advocated the reintroduction of Four-Power control in Berlin and the estabhshment of a German State Council sitting in Berlin with economic and administrative responsibilities.