FINAL TREATIES WITH FIVE COUNTRIES

Rotorua Morning Post, Issue 5324, 10 February 1947, Page 5

FINAL TREATIES WITH FIVE COUNTRIES

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work beg1ns to-day YUGOSLAV ATTITUDE NOT CERTAIN

—Rec. 9.80 p.m.)

LONDON, Feb. 9. . Tomorrow the French Foreign Minister, M. Bidanlt, will start off the proceedings for the formal finishing of the * peace treaties * with Italy, Runiania, Hungary, Bnlgaria and Finland. A correspondent says that there are still one or two points about the treaties to be cleared up. It ds still not known whether Yu^oslavia will sign the Italian treaty. This is becaus^, of her ohjections to the arrangement about Trieste. If Yugoslavia does not sign, it is stated, then the Trieste settlement cannot come into effect. That means that the internatioqal zone cannot be constituted an'd that the British and American troops 'in Venezia G'Liilia cannot be withdrawn, In other words, one of the most difficult of European problems about whieh the four Powers/finally agreed after months of argument and negotiation, will be again unsettled.

Another difficulty arises out of the Bulgarian treaty by virtue of the fact that the present Bulgarian Government is not recognised hy either London 01* Washington. Unless the Government is formally recognised, -it will not be possible to put all the provisions of the treaty into force. This means that London and Washington will have.to reconsider their policy. In spite of the great impdrtance of the preparatory work done by the Foreign Ministers' deputies, the correspondent says, there is a feeling' that the fundamental issues are being fought out elsewhere. It is considered that neither Canada nor Australia will permit themselves to be pas'hed quietly into v/hat correspondents call tre tradesmen's entrnace of the next Peace Conferenee. Unofficial statements issued here say that the Polish Foreign Minister, now. on his way to Paris, may have tallcs about the French claims on Germany, ■ and the possibility of a Franco-Polfsli pact.