Mr DOIDGE UNVEILS WAR MEMORIAL

Press, Volume LXXXVIII, Issue 26723, 6 May 1952, Page 7

Mr DOIDGE UNVEILS WAR MEMORIAL

(Special Correspondent N.Z.P.A.) __ LONDON, May 4. The New Zealand High Commis®oner (Mr F. W. Doidge) unveiled a •rime of remembrance to-day at the wietery at Botley, ’ near Oxford, here more than 500 soldiers and air..F n °f the British Commonwealth and ‘rier Allied nations are buried. Au \ bishop of Dorchester (Dr. C. B. dedicated the stone, which was the Imperial War Graves f Representatives of tha s‘ c . °f Britain, Australia, Canada, l rj ~;h Africa, and other Allied counts of World War II were emong ’*e who laid wreaths.

Power Committee wit g f d T> Wlth draftin « fhe Western Note to Russia will resume its debate l, ■ a u • on the American proposal, l or a me eting of the four allied High Commissioners in Berlin t 0 discuss free all-German elections. lhe proposal was the main amends«ggested by the United States to the Three Power draft of the Western reply to Russia’s latest Note prop ° s mg all-German elections for an all-German government. Critics of the proposal believe that at a later stage a Four Power meeting might nossiblv prove a useful first step towards exploring ways of holding an all-German election, but they feel that at this stage it could only throw out the already delicate timetable for signing the European Defence Community Treaty, and the peace contracts between West Germany and the Western Allies. Earlier messages from London said that a Foreign Ministry spokesman and authoritative British sources today confirmed that the United States had suggested that the Western Powers call the meeting of British, American, French and Russian High Commissioners in Berlin.

French political observers received the news with great surprise. Sources close to the French Foreign Office declared that the suggestion might upset the immediate Western diplomatic time-table. They felt that it could delay even further the signing, due on May 20, of the contractual agreements with Germany ending the Occupation Statute and the European Army Treaty, which, it has been generally believed, was America’s most immediate concern.