NEUTRAL POWERS EXPECT TO FIND SETTLEMENT FOR RERUN CRISIS

Grey River Argus, 9 October 1948, Page 5

NEUTRAL POWERS EXPECT TO FIND SETTLEMENT FOR RERUN CRISIS

(Rec. 10.35). LONDON, October 8. The correspondent of the Associated Press at Paris says: Argentine sources said that they were confident that the Berlin crisis would soon be solved through the efforts of neutral members of the Security Council, under the chairmanship of Senor Juan Bramuglia. It is known that Senor Eramuglia had several interviews with represen-, tatives of the Western Powers, before! he convoked the delegates of the small Powers He is expected to interview M. Vyshinsky to-day, and there is confidence that the Russians will agree to a basis for negotiations. Small Nations’ Effort To Find Settlement LONDON, October 7. The Evening Standard’s correspondent at Paris says: Dr H. V. Evatt (Australia) and M. Spaak (Belgium) have assumed leadership of the small nations’ move to bring about a three months’ truce between Russia and the Western Powers in Berlin. Their plan is that Russia should raise the siege and Britain, France and America would agree to a meeting of the Foreign Ministers’ Council to discuss the entire German problem. Negotiations to bring this about are going on behind the scenes. There is no indication of Russian reactions, but there is a certain “coolness” in the Anglo-American delegations to the United Nations.

U.S.A, Against a Surrender of Berlin

LONDON, October 7

The United States delegate (Dr Philip Jessup) told the Security Council that the United States would never surrender on Berlin. Russia, he said, was committing an act of aggression and using hostile, threatening measures in an unlawful blockade.

“The United States is prepared to take any measure necessary to stay in Berlin and protect the people of that city”, he added. “The United, States will not surrender its refits' under a threat of force applied in violation of the Charter. I submit that its record is a record of patience and restraint under great provocation.

“I assert, without equivocation, that our restraint is born of our conviction in the justice, of our cause, and not out of weakness. Is it negotiation 'when the Soviet Government uses its armed forces to establish and maintain a blockade designed to prevent the maintenance by the United States of the German people committed to their charge? "When there is an actual armed attack, the Charter recognises the needs of self-defence. When the act. is aggressive and threatens the use of force, but falls short of an armed attack, it constitutes an act of aggression or a threat to peace”. Revealing that the air lift in a single day had delivered almost 7000 tons of supplies, Dr Jessup said that the Security Council, as well as the Berlin population, might well regard the air lift as a symbol of peace and of methods of pacific settlement. “The fact that the courage and ingenuity of the men and women participating in this stupendous achievement has saved Berliners from much of the suffering Russia sought to enforce upon them does not mean that the threat to peace has been removed”, he said.