DECISION TO BE MADE ONE YEAR AFTER PEACE TREATY AGREEMENT

Bay of Plenty Times, Volume LXXV, Issue 14172, 24 September 1946, Page 3

DECISION TO BE MADE ONE YEAR AFTER PEACE TREATY AGREEMENT

« TO BE ASKED FOR RECOMMENDATION IF H BIG FOUR FAIL TO AGREE j - London, September 33. ns cor r^s F Olldeilts say tliat a meetin £ a * tne Big- Four vn Mm isters as been -fixed for to-morrow on This follows tlls meetin £ Mr Bevin had with M. W£L this morning:, when a speeding up of the conference jjolotovw 1 " 0 Hiscussea. Mr Bevin saw Mr Byrnes on Saturday and he is to meet M. *7 to . m orrow before- the Big- Four get together. The Biff F(mr havs ust issued n new declaration on the of Italy's former African colonies. It says that a year W 6 - a(?e t r eaty with Italv comes into force they will ?!?j decide what to do with Italy's possessions in Africa. lfare of the people in the former Italian colonies and of peace and security will be considered along with * ftin -ws of other interested governments. If-the four big lllf cannot agree the United Nations Assembly will be W f to make a recommendation which the four Powers agree 0, members of the British Commonwealth delegation o<od the text of this declaration with Mr Bevin last night phrase "interested governments" used in the declara- • is interpreted by correspondents as including the question of the Italian colonies came up to-day before Ttalian Political and Territorial Committee and an Italian I tentative was allowed to give Italy's views. The E2TPti an delegate wanted the conference to proclaim ■ dependence of Libva and claimed that certain other areas K. be returned to Ee-ypt. The sub-committee dealing with Trieste-has had a long. (rtimqrt about the powers to be given to the Governor of the fjerritory of Trieste. It was finally decided to refer the Sterto the drafting committee.