AUSTRIAN PEACE TREATY

Press, Volume LXXXV, Issue 25934, 14 October 1949, Page 7

AUSTRIAN PEACE TREATY

POWERS AGREE ON BOUNDARIES INFORMATION GIVEN TO U.S. SENATE (Rec. 8 pan.) WASHINGTON. Oct. 12. I The United States Secretary of i State (Mr Dean Acheson) told the • Senate's Foreign Relations Committee to-day that progress had been made | with Russia on the Austrian peace ■ treaty. This was announced by the : chairman of the committee (Senator • Tom Connally). i Mr Acheson appeared before the ! committee at a closed session. I Senator Connally later said that the 1 United States and Russia had agreed that Austria would have the same j boundaries as she had before Hitler ■ marched in. . Mr Acheson had told the commiti tee that the questions of Danube l shipping, reparations, and ownership of German-controlled property in Austria remained unsettled. In New York the Big Four Foreign i Ministers’ deputies continued their ’ meetings, begun on Monday, to try to clear the disputed nine articles in the treaty A three-hour meeting to-day failed to break the deadlock on the disposal of oil property in Austria. APPEALS HEARD IN BUDAPEST RAJK AND OTHERS ASK FOR CLEMENCY LONDON. October 12. The Budapest correspondent of the United Press says that death sentences for all these charged in the recent I Rajk trial were demanded by the I prosecutor (Mr Jangs Borbely) when ■ their appeals were heard in a surprise : session in Budapest to-day. The api peals were heard in the same court- ■ room in which Cardinal Mindszenty's trial was held. The defence lawyers pleaded for | clemency for Laszlo Rajk. Bitor Sozny. i and Andras Szalai. who were senfenced to death. They asked for reduced sentences in the cases of the other accused. The hearing was adjourned until Friday when the verdicts will be pronounced.