BIG FOUR ADMIT FAILURE

Chronicle (Levin), 2 June 1949, Page 5

BIG FOUR ADMIT FAILURE

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E2e> ' liec"! ■.■"•fl Thrv^flov, 11 a.m. PARIS, June 1. The Western Foreign Ministcr*; today demanded a "no publicitv, no propaganda" sespjon nf ihe Rig Four — at present doadlocked over German . uniiv — -to find out whether Mr. Vy-'liinsky (Russia) really think* they can get down to bras* tacka at their present pe.-'^ion. 3-Ir. Dean Acheson (United Statos) asked for a "restricted'' session, which would ;g un that the meetings would .&!- emsidored ]»l,ivate gathering would he "ttcndod bv a smaller number of people and tha* rerortei-s would not recei\'' any aecount of what haeoenod at the meetings. Vyshinsky replied that he i ■•nild not eonsent to this unt'I he had consulted the Kremlin. A* se-'ii-an sources which repng thi-* say that Fr. Aeheson's move was endorsed bv ilr. Frnest Revin (Britain) and M. Robert Schuman (Fvmce) . Mr. Acheson's purpose is to da i ofr what he considers a flo t of prooaganda from Mr. Vv hinsky direeted at the German people. There was little or eoie of this in ihe couneil's m- hms bwt week, hut since M* May there has been a nU eable shii't in Soviet tactics. The Foreign Ministers today afhvitted Ihe failure of their we-'k's efforts to agree on Germaa unltv and abandoned this clisrussion. They devoted the «'h"'e of this afiernoon's threehouv meeting to the seeond item 011 their agenda — the pyddems of Berlln and the lui :• vncy dispute.

M •*. Vyshinsky today insisted "a reta'nine; the veio in any plen to revise tlie Allied Ke.mmam'utura Tor Rerlhi (Four-. Pi"' • w Kommandatura has not i fun- lioned shice the Russians 1 w: ded coit of one oi its meet- i in? • in 1948). ! ' he United States foreign 1 ad M"i% Mr. John Foster j D;;': s, as he left todayV meeting, said: "We did not get very t'ar in t#e Berlin discussions." ( Mr. Acheson suggested at the moeting that the Ministers ?ta;- 'he Beilin debate on the a> : nntion that they were all in rlin, that they were all poi: to May there and that th» ' "• nn-ea to stay In harsi II ro • • wa- •' •editi 'n. . . Aclies.,11 further rnaintai* 1 at th' m ealing that l ni; rs • to the I d;« m duy riiim'.ig oi' Berlin, I v.'i; wero jusf MmoU policy shotild be seuled by a i ■ i nty vote. Vyshinsky said that the , i»b.v b'nment of the principle^ | of eb. i >y, r-ven on -ireiile j idt. r. l ii-.iis, v.'ouhl result in ' I Cha . | 1 . Bevin, at the close of i ithc ■ . '•ting, exnrossed disap-l f1"' -'!lt a' tb»; I'O'k of 1)1*0- 1 o"' **'v' '• aio i i ddghig In -i' legal argumenr that ' -nlng us nowhere," he Uaid, '