U.S. OBJECTIVE IN MOSCOW

Press, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 25129, 10 March 1947, Page 7

U.S. OBJECTIVE IN MOSCOW

Plan for 40-Year Security Pact

BEVIN ARRIVES (N.Z. Press Association—Copyright) (Rec 7 p.m.) LONDON, March 8. “The United States Secretary of State (General G. C. Marshall), who leaves Berlin for Moscow to-morrow, indicated to the press that America’s major objective in Moscow would be the Byrnes plan for a 40-year four-Power security pact against Germany,” says the Associated Press. “America, he said, believed that such a pact would clear many‘of the difficulties blocking the German and Austrian peace settlements.” .. Moscow radio has announced that Mr Vyshinsky, other Russian officials, and officials of the British Embassy met Mr Bevin and his party when they arrived in Moscow this morning. Mr Bevin said: “We shall spend the days ahead in trying to make some peace which will prevent future aggression and let the whole world live in security.” Mr Bevin said he was glad to be hack He brought greetings from the British people.

To facilitate the comings and goings ol British courier aeroplanes during the Foreign Ministers’ meeting, the Russians have authorised the British to install radio beam direction equip ment at the Moscow airport, reports Reuter’s Moscow correspondent. However, Russian navigators and radio operators will have to be taken on Moscow-bound planes at London or Berlin, because the Russians insist that their own navigators must indicate the route which the aeroplanes follow over Soviet territory. The Berlin correspondent of “The Times” says: “The Russian authorities have informed the Allied Control Council’s political directorate that the proposal to send representatives of German news agencies to report the Moscow confererfce is not practicable, because of accommodation difficulties. It is not stated from whom the proposal came. Berlin newspapers have been asking recently that German reporters should be allowed to attend the conference, but apart from accommodation difficulties there has never been a likelihood of the request being granted.”