MR. BEVIN TO MAKE STATEMENT

Rotorua Morning Post, Issue 5292, 3 January 1947, Page 6

MR. BEVIN TO MAKE STATEMENT

1 General Foreign Matters LONDON, January 2. The Secretary for Eorpign Affairs, Mr. Bevin, will make a full report on the general foreign outlook when the Cahinet meets at No. 10' Downing Street to-morrow, says Reuter's news agency. He will , include in his suirvey the trouble which has arisen with Albania over the mining of British destroyers in Corfu Channel. .The Foreign. Office has announced that Mr. Bevin has appointed Sir William Strang, political adviser to the Commander-ih-Chief in Germany, as his deputy for Germ'any to the meetin.g of the Council of Foreign Ministers in Moscow on March 10. He has also appointed Viscount Hood, a member of the peace meetin.g section of the Foreign Office, as his deputy for Austria to the same meeting. The Foreign Ministers' deputies will meet in London on January 14, when their first task will be to receive the claims of the smaller Powers against Germany, and to hear their views on the peace treaty with Germany and the treaty recognising Austrian independence. Consultations are now proceeding on how this can best be done. The 18 nations which fought against Germany will be invited to give their views. They are Australia, Belgium, Brazil, Byelo-Russia, Canada, China, Denmark, Czechoslovakia, Gtreede, Tndia, 'LuxtVnbourg, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Poland, South Africa, Ukraine, and Yugoslavia. Reuter's diplomatie eorrespondent says the meeting* in London on January 14 of the "special" deputies of the British, American, Russi'an and French Foreign 'Ministers, appointed under an agreement reached :by the Foreign Ministers in New York, will go on almost continuously until a week or two before March 10. The deputies have been asked to submit reports to the Foreign Ministers by February 25. As a resnlt of the marked im- ' provement in relations between Russia and the Western Powers, it .is now hoped that, with mutual co-operation, divergencies of view will be settled with some readiness and that peacemaking with Germany may prove a less formidable task than appeared likely only a few weeks ago.