WEST GERMANY AS PARTNER

Press, Volume LXXXVII, Issue 26523, 11 September 1951, Page 7

WEST GERMANY AS PARTNER

plan For Post-war I Settlement

(N.Z. Press Association-Copyright) JIM. 830 P-m.) WASHINGTON, September 9. The Western Big Three Foreign Ministers open m Washington to-morrow, with a new arrangement for West Germany reported ■ 0 be a primary objective. For the next four days the American, British and French F*** Morttoon, and Mr Schumal ,4ft expected to turn from Asian problems to devote their ttW tion >n ,ar « e P art to European and Middle East issues. fte Korean fighting, nevertheless, holds a prominent place H die agenda. T * y Vi? S raft ° f a nGW “contractual” offering West Germany a post-war settlement Ji major items like those given Japan in her peace treaty

■ oS. k a n ,i ” st fK grs Allies, the proposal would— 7 (1) 2SjL West Germany full Sover6< 22} e security safeguard for the Three Powers. (2) the Three-Power Allied High Commission, it would be i succeeded probably by a Council of Ambassadors. (3) Change the status of occupation •P?P* to deface forces responsible for helping safeguard West Germany as well as Western Europe generally from .any Soviet aggression. The reason for Western urgency is the expectation that acceptance will r . the *ay for West Germany’s coni tribution to the European Artny, and for putting into effect the Schuman Plan for a common trading area for : the coal, iron and steel resources of six Western European nations. Aside from Germany and Korea the ministers plan to tackle such problems as admitting Greece and Turkey into the North Atlantic Alliance, a settlement for Trieste, Italy’s plea for the revision of her peace treaty, Spain’s relations with the West, the Persian oil crisis, and the Communist threat to Indo-China.