WARSHIPS GIVEN BACK TO ITALY

Press, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 25307, 6 October 1947, Page 7

WARSHIPS GIVEN BACK TO ITALY

AMERICAN DECISION (Rec. 9 p.m.) ROME, October 4. The Italian Foreign Minister (Count Sforza) told the Italian Constituent Assembly that the United States had renounped its share of the Italian war. shirs received under the peace treaty and would hand .them back to Italy. The British United Press says the decision means that Italy will retain at least 40 of her warships.

ITALY’S FORMER COLONIES

BIG FOUR DEPUTIES CONFERRING LONDON, October 3. The Big Four Foreign Ministers’ special deputies began a conference to-day on the disposal of Italian colonies. Sir Noel Charles (Britain), welcoming the other deputies, said: ”Tfie Foreign Secretary (Mr Ernest Bevin) is pleased that our respective Gov? ernments have lost no time in arr -ging these meetings. We have a year to find a solution and he feels that the sooner the commissioners have their instructions to proceed to make investigations on the spot, the better it will be, and the more time can be given for discussions when their reports have been made. Sir Noel Charles said he did not foresee serious difficulty at this stage, and although November 15 had been mentioned as the date for the com? missions to leave there was no reason why they should not leave earlier. Mr Bevin took the view that ft -should be fairly easy to agree on the first necessary details pf pro? cedure. The conference conducted its business in camera.