MEETING IN PARIS

Press, Volume LXXXVII, Issue 26363, 6 March 1951, Page 7

MEETING IN PARIS

Deputies Of Big Four

□toe. I p.m.) LONDON, March 5. jtouter’i Paris correspondent says that the vital East-West conference, which opens to-day, at which the Jtussian Deputy Foreign Minister (Mr Gromyko) 'heads a Soviet delegation at 18, will cast the die for or against the subsequent Big Four Foreign Ministsn “peace conference.” The purpose of to-day’s meeting, which was arranged last week after ■oaths of diplomatic exchanges between Russia and the three western powers, is restricted to drawing up an amed agenda for a full-scale meeting «r Foreign Ministers. terGromyko to-day will shake hands with the British Foreign Affairs Under-Secretary (Mr Ernest Davies), the United States Ambassador at Large (Mr Philip Jessup), and the French Foreign Office Secretary-Gen-tnl (Mr Alexandre Paroudl). The three Western deputies agreed at a conference yesterday to present a Joint policy on the agenda and to 40 their utmost to make a full-dress Four-Power meeting possible.