ITALIAN PEACE TREATY

Press, Volume LXXXII, Issue 24961, 23 August 1946, Page 7

ITALIAN PEACE TREATY

Paris Conference Discussion VIEWS OF OTHER STATES PARIS, August 21. The British Foreign Secretary (Mr Ernest Bevin) for the first time appeared at the Peace Conference to preside at the plenary session which began hearing the views of the six nonmember States on the Italian treaty. Mr Bevin. who looked fit, was welcomed with general applause, and smiled happily as he climbed to the rostrum.

Mg, Bevin immediately invited the Albanian delegate to present his views. The Albanian Prime Minister (General Hoxha) claimed that Albania’s war record justified her inclusion 'as a juiiy fledged member of the conference.

The members of Albania’s Quisling Government, to which Mr Tsalua.r,ls. (Greece) referred, have all been < 1 au * Italy’s war criminals are t he -best hotels in Rome,” said General Hoxha. He asked for a further reduction in Italy’s armed forces so mat she could never again threaten S«I«J? e 2 g ? bours ’ Albania would never « gauges of the frontier. Alli.. 1 . Pasha ’Egypt) Called on the > Pnrto 0 reco Bniso Libya as an indethft so Y rel ? n State. He suggested tnirt.? 6 at *® in ’stration could oe enAral t pro tern* to a member of the ence JueagUe appointed by the conferanßf£erriag to ttlG Italian proposals for Afrirn lan , trus teeship over the former that, colonies, Ghali Pasha warned tn Tih, return of Italian administration th«. would awaken the hatred of Ch*f? b £ and lead to a revolt. na p asha claimed as reparation from ‘ltaly the cession of pi qt £ asis . of J arabub and the Solium frnntSi m Lib ya, thus moving the Ch est of Bardia. Arah » Pasha suggested that other viHa atlons would be glad to procounsellors required for «°^reigi n |tie bya aS an independent (Austria) made a claim reaueSUF oUth u Tyrol from Italy ’ and tion Ue «l e<i m a . ahare in the administrationai?LTn?ste if it were interna--BhouiH 2s >?' He urged that Austria and b, be given free access to a port bour oil necessary facilities and har6eagr trade f ° r devel °P ment °f overwSnd G K Über -„ l>romised that Austria comilPtA wdllng to guarantee Italy asseR e 5 enjoyment of the economic of the South. Tyrol. ol" V nd J erstood that at a meeting gates pJ* adlng Commonwealth deleWere tnfi ta ?u a £ d the other Dominions sist on hl that South Africa would inP=Si?on b i? S T t CO v SUlted On the Bnal <**»• Ita han colonies in AXrieg. to nave Pccs’ded, is believed Big Four 10 insi!t th,t toe a I , ed . to reach agreement on toe iJS! status of Italian colonies. United wt? should be settled by the serted th?? 1 ?? 5 ’ General Smuts asconfinJ h . at J he settlement should be at war with tb tal" atlOnS which had been that the Hon. H. G. Mr Bevin ’New Zealand) supported ’iorsert r! Evatt ’Australia) en8., Claxf^ er ?L Smuts ’ s view . and Mr aeutral attitude anada> maintained a