ANOTHER MOSCOW MEETING

Grey River Argus, 20 September 1948, Page 5

ANOTHER MOSCOW MEETING

No Agreement Yet

(Rec. 11.5) LONDON, Sept. 18. The three Western envoys at Moscow met M. Molot'ov at the Kremlin on Saturday afternoon. The meeting last two and a-half

Reuter’s diplomatic correspondent says: The British Foreign Office is studying Mr Roberts’s report on the Kremlin meeting. It is beheved that Mr Bevin will treat the report as a matter of' urgency since he obviously hopes to co-ordinate his policy with those of the United States and the French Governments on the next moves before he leaves for the United Nations Assembly at Paris. Judging by the length of the Kremlin meeting, political observers think that M. Molotov made both counterproposals and counter demands, without rejecting outright a Western proposal that instructions be sent to Marshal Sokolovsky to permit Berlin talks between the military governors to be started. The problem now facing the Western Powers is whether it is worth their while to continue the Moscow negotiations, or to end them and refer the deadlock to the United Nations.