FOREIGN MINISTERS’ MEETING

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 66, Issue 272, 29 August 1946, Page 5

FOREIGN MINISTERS’ MEETING

ANGLO-U.S. PROPOSAL AT PARIS TENTATIVE DATE FiXED - - -.y (N.Z. Press Association—Copyright.) PARIS, August 27. Mr Ernest Beviii (Britain) and Mr James F. Byrnes (United States) decided this week that it would be desirable to hold a Big Four Foreign Ministers’ conference to consider all non-organisa-tional matters in connection with the Paris Conference, says Reu- * ter’s correspondent The meeting was tentatively arranged for August 29. France and the Soviet have so far noir revealed their attitudes. According to a later message, Reuter's Paris correspondent says Mr Molotov’s acceptance of the proposal by Mr Bevin and Mr Byrnes of a Big Four meeting has made a meeting tomorrow practically certain. . • • The Rumanian political territorial committee of the Paris conference adopted an Australian amendment proposing that a reference to “ the principles of justice” should be inserted in the preamble of the treaty. The preamble was adopted after the rejection of a Czecli amendment proposing that Rumania be recognised as a co-belligerent. The first of the five territorial committees to begin the consideration., of test drafts of the treaties, the Rumanian committee, unanimously adopted Article 1 fixing, the Rumanian frontier in accordance with the Russian and Rumanian agreement of June 28-, 1940, and the Russian and Czechoslovakian agreement of June 21, 1945.

It deferred its decision on Article 2 covering the return to Rumania of part of Transylvania awarded to Hungary by the Axis until Hungary is heard before the Hungarian committee.

The Rumanian committee was adjourned. ' The Belgian delegation to the conference tabled an amendment banning former German satellites from undertaking atomic research “with a military aim.” .

The Big Four Foreign Ministers will meet at the Quai d’Orsay to-morrow afternoon, says Reuter’s Paris correspondent. Mr Bevin, upon arrival iji Paris from London, said: “If the Big Four meet and try to adjust their differences without infringing the procedure of the Paris Conference it should help to smooth out the work of the whole show.”