CONFERENCE IN MOSCOW

Press, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 25159, 15 April 1947, Page 7

CONFERENCE IN MOSCOW

SIGNS OF CLOSING PHASE

“DISAPPOINTING RESULTS SO FAR” (N.Z. Press Association—Copyright) (R t£ JL P mJ • LONDON, April 14. nf ‘ that the conference Ministers in Moscow is in Th« Phase, says “The Times.” ei gn Ministers have already nnac? de . f ? r decisions on some ?h^ S H°? s J lllll ! I !}® next conference, fixed d te ° f whlch has not y et bee n

—J?!® se . arc b for an agreement on the means of achieving economic unity in St e o rr ? ar L y continues to be the conference s basic problem. Russian conditions for that agreement are that Great Britain and the United States should t^ ep X f ? u £ po^er control of the Ruhr and that the Russians should get reipasa“onS irom current production. The Times,” in a leading article, says the results of the conference so lar have been extremely disappointW- No . Promising step in the Brit-lsn-Amencan plan to make their zones self-supporting by the end of 1949 should be postponed merely in the nope that the summer or autumn may bring a change in the Russian attitude.