EUROPEAN TRADE REVIVAL PROPOSALS

Grey River Argus, 5 October 1948, Page 5

EUROPEAN TRADE REVIVAL PROPOSALS

GENEVA, October 3. The Economic Commission for Europe has announced that representatives of the 22 nations meeting to plan a revival of European trade have agreed that co-operation between East and West in trade, industry and agriculture is essential for European recovery. The statement said that the nations had agreed in principle that co-opera-tive action through the Economic Commission for Europe in the fields !of intra-European trade and the development of European industry and agriculture was necessary in the individual and common,' interest of the countries of Europe. The statement followed a four-day debate, during which the British attitude has been reserved. . A nine-man working party, including Britain, Russia and the United States, set up by the conference to work out machinery for increased co-operation, will ‘report its findings to the full conference. The Commission was called by the Economic Commission for Europe at Russia’s suggestion. Eleven Marshall Plan nations, 10 Eastern European countries, and the United States are attending. , , An Eastern European proposal to hold the meeting in public was defeated. .