AGREEMENT ON CURRENCY FOR BERLIN EXPECTED FROM MOSCOW TALKS

Grey River Argus, 30 August 1948, Page 5

AGREEMENT ON CURRENCY FOR BERLIN EXPECTED FROM MOSCOW TALKS

(Received August 29, at 10.10 p.m.) LONDON, August 29. Reuter’s diplomatic correspondent says while it is believed that one further Kremlin meeting may be necessary, there is expected then to be an announcement that technical details governing the issue of ■Soviet currency in Western Berlin is to be passed bn to a conference of the four Military Governors. .It is believed that the conference held at the Kremlin on Friday night produced a draft communique which has been/referred to the three Western capitals. Obseivers consider, even if only as a formality, the statement may be referred back once more to Moscow. The. Western envoys had a three-hour talk with M. Molotov. M. Stalin was not present, but M. Andrei Vyshinsky, Deputy-Foreign Minister was for the first time in the negotiations. Mr. Frank Roberts (Britain) disappointed observers by saying u No communique to-night, as at , least an interim announcement. The envoys are understood to have been extremely satisfied with the nature of M. Stalin’s earHer communication to them.