FINAL BID TO REACH SOLUTION

Chronicle (Levin), 17 June 1949, Page 5

FINAL BID TO REACH SOLUTION

Western Qfficials Confident About Outcome Of Last Paris Meeting Received Friday, 11.45 a.m. * PARIS, June 16. There js every indicati'on that 'the Bfg Four Foreign Ministers will sit until the early hours of the morning in a bid to yeach agreement at what is expected to be the last session of , the Paris conference. Western ofiicials said tonight that they were confident that, barring last-minute hitches, the Minister.s would conclude a double agreement on the Austrian Treaty and the modus vivendi in Germany.

The Ministers met in private session for over five hours this afternoon and when they adjourned for dinner they arranged to resume the conference at 10 p.m. (G.M.T.). There was a short break in this afternoon's session whi e the Western Ministers conferred without Mr. Vyshinsky (Rusgla). Mr. Ernesc Bevin (Britain) has announced that he will leave Paris tomorrow to attend a meeting of the Western Union Consu.tative Council at Luxembourg, and he is reported to want the Western Ministers to insist that Mr. Vyshinsky should decide tonight whether the Foreign Ministers' conference is to reach the limi.ed agreement now in sight or declare it another failure. Mr. Bevin believes that no useful purpose can be achieved, but possibly some harm can be caused by prolonging the conference. It is understoo'd that the four Foreign Ministers have recom-

mended their Berlin representatives to use their collective good ofiices to he.p find a solution of the We'st Berlin railway strike prob'em. The procedure for keeping the four Powers in touch over Germany is expected to take these two forms: Firs ly, consuitations by the fcur Powers' representatives of the United Nations General Assembly next September on the desirabLity and date of a further meeting of the Foreign Ministers' Counei.. Secondly, consuitations in Germany itse'f by the occupa.tlon authorities to reduce to a minimum the difflculties and friction due to the existence of two separaie systems. It was reported also that the Ministers had agreed in princip_e that the restoration of trade betw.een Eastern and Western Germany should be worked out under a plan for a balanced exchange of goods.