Battle For Power Already Shaping Within Council Of Europe

Chronicle (Levin), 10 August 1949, Page 5

Battle For Power Already Shaping Within Council Of Europe

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Received Wednesday, 10.10 a.m. STRASBOURG, August 9. The battle for power within the Council of Europe is already shaping, says the Associated Press correspondent. The contest is between the couneil's executive arm — the Committee of Foreign Ministers — and its legislative branch — the Consultative Assembly. Members of the 101-man As- council.

sembly are determined, according to some delegates, to strip the ministerial committee of i.s dictatorial powers and make the Assembly supreme. To counter suspicions that they intend to limit the scope of vEurope's first international Parlia- ' ment due to meet here tomorrow, the Foreign Ministers forming'the Cabinet of the Council of Europe tonight proposed that a joint committee of Ministers and delegates from the Assembly should be sst up to settle ru'es for relations between the two bodies forming the

The Ministers made their proposal in a communique after they had held two sitcings today— in which Turkey and Greece took their part — discussing final plans for tomorrow's meeting of the twelve nation Assembly. The Foreign Ministers approved the following three-point agenda for the Assembly: Firsciy, the role the Council of Europe can play in the economic field; secondly, the couneil's role in the field of social security; and, third y, the methods by which the council can develop mutual co-opsration between member nations.