TREATY TALKS IN LONDON

Press, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 25305, 3 October 1947, Page 7

TREATY TALKS IN LONDON

MEETING OF FOREIGN MINISTERS GERMANY AND ITALY’S COLONIES (Rec. 9 p.m.) LONDON, October 1. “The British Government has proposed that the Big Four Foreign Ministers should meet in London on November 25 to begin consideration of the German peace treaty, and that their deputies should begin meeting on November 6,” says the diplomatic correspondent of Reuters. “The United States and France have accepted the dates, but Russia has not replied. “The Foreign Ministers’ deputies will begin in London on October 3 to consider the future of the Italian colonies.

“This subject was left over When the Italian. peace treaty was drafted, since there was no sign of agreement. The task of the deputies is to find suggestions which will help the Foreign Ministers to agree when they meet in London in November. One of the chief points is which Governments shall be consulted and by what method.”

A message from Rome says that the Italian Foreign' (Count Sforza) has been handed a “very important” communication by the Russian Ambassador (Mr Kostylev) about the improvement - of Italian-Soviet relations. It is believed that the communication deals with the Russian attitude to the Italian colonies.

The “New York Times,” in a leading article advocating that the former Italian colonies in Africa—Eritrea, Italian Somaliland, Cyrenaica, and Tripolitania—should, be transferred to the trusteeship of the United Nations, says: “Here is a perfect opportunity for the Trusteeship Council to launch a great experiment in international rule. This is a iob cut out for the kind of international authority the United Nations was designed to be, and must be if the unexploited areas of the earth are not to become cockpits of power politics. “The world’s hope of co-operation among the Big Four grows faint, but perhaps this is one point on which Moscow will recognise the advantages of international agreement on an international regime.”