SEEKING SHOWDOWN
MOVE BY UNITED STATES (Rec. 1.30 p.m.) LONDON, April 30 - . The American, delegation entered the Foreign Ministers’ conference determined to have a real showdown with the Russians, says Reuter’s Paris correspondent. This, according to a high authority, is the real meaning of the unexpected production by Mr James F. Byrnes of a draft 25-year Four Power Security Treaty. President Truman is in full agreement with Mr Byrnes that the conference shall not be a mere fencing match, leaving the fundamental question of relations between Russia and the Western Allies unsettled. The draft treaty for German disarmament was not on the agenda. The normal time for its introduction would have been later, when Germany comes up for consideration. Mr Byrnes, however, decided, to ignore formal procedures and put the treaty not only before the conference but before the world, thereby saying clearly to Russia: “Do you want security or expansion? Are you willing to come in with us or continue playing a lone hand?”
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 66, Issue 169, 1 May 1946, Page 4
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