A MEETING OF FOUR FOREIGN MINISTERS

Grey River Argus, 7 August 1948, Page 5

A MEETING OF FOUR FOREIGN MINISTERS

EXPECTED AS RESUL TOF MOSCOW TALKS (Rec. 10.5) LONDON. August 6. The three Western envoys at their next meeting with M. Molotov, which is expected to take place either on Friday or Saturday, will, according to the Daily Express political correspondent, reject a proposal that was made to them by M. Stalin at the Kremlin talk on Monday last, as a condition for ending the Berlin blockade, the Western Powers should scrap, or at least go slow on, their measures for forming a western regime in Germany on the basis of the Six-Power London Agreement.

The Western envoys, the correspondent adds, will name to M. Molotov, the subjects that their Governments are ready to discuss at the Four-Power conference, at the same time emphasising that discussions cannot begin until free access to Berlin is guaranteed.

Agreement Reported to Hold Conference of Foreign Ministers (Rec. 11.40). LONDON, Aug. 6.Reuter’s correspondent at Moscow says well-informed sources say that an agreement, in principle, to hold a Council of Foreign Ministers in the near future has been reached in the East-West talks which are now going on in Moscow. LONDON August 5. The British, American and French Governments have instructed then' envoys in Moscow to ask for another interview with M. Molotov. Mr Roberts sent the British Foreign Office a report on the consultations of the three Western envoys in Moscow. A meeting of all the available British Cabinet Ministers is likely to be called before final instructions are sent to Mr Roberts to approach M. Molotov and M. Stalin. General Sir Brian Robertson, who has been conferring with officials in London on the Berlin situation, has returned, to Berlin by air. Next Move is to Define Subjects for Negotiations. (Rec. 10.5) LONDON, Aug. 6. It is believed that the envoys of Britain, France and the United States may make a further approach to M. Stalin through M. Molotov, to-day (Friday), says Reuter’s diplomatic correspondent. It is expected that the next move will contain specific proposals for Four Power negotiations on the German problem and the Berlin crisis. It is believed that further instructions were sent to Mr F. Roberts (British envoy) on Thursday night. . The Times Paris correspondent says: It is officially confirmed that fresh instructions have been sent to the French Ambassador at Moscow, M. Chataigneau. Reuter’s Paris correspondent says: The instructions to M. Chataigneau contained detailed proposals relating to the place and the form of the new Four Power meeting. Reuter’s Berlin correspondent says: A high-ranking Soviet political officer told German political leaders that M. Stalin had presented the three Western envoys with a list of concrete questions on Germany and on Berlin, and had asked the envoys to consult their Governments and to give him concrete answers. A STRAW IN THE WIND? The Berlin correspondent of Reuter’s agency reports that a number of former leading Berlin Social Democrats, who joined the Commun-ist-dominated Socialist Unity Party, on its formation in the year 1946. have resigned during the past 48 hours, and have applied for readmissidft to the Social Democrat Party.

MORE FLIGHTS MADE British aircr.aft.r.- -augmented by 11 charter pities from Britain to-day for the,..f’rst time made more flights iWfiT'Re'din with food and coal than ■W”'‘"the Americans—3oB British and 296 American planes arrived during the day. The British United Press Hamburg correspondent says the first of 10 cargo barges which the Russians released from the Wittenburg check point have arrived at Hamburg and others are expected soon. CASE OF LATVIAN CHILDREN The British reply to the Russian allegation that 70 children were detained in the British zone, said the British always send children home immediately their identities are established, which task was often long hnd tedious. The official added that the 70 children referred to by the Russians will be returned to Latvia as soon as the evidence of thenorigin is carefully sifted. WASHINGTON, Aug. 5. - President Truman denied a Berlin report that. General Lucius Clay would be relieved of his post as American Military Commander in Germany “as a scapegoat,” to saxe Anglo-American prestige.” President Truman also said that he was hopeful for peace and hopeful that the atomic bomb would be outlawed after the United Nations had made proper safeguards.