Big Four Ministers To Work Out “Summit” Decisions

Press, Volume XCII, Issue 27736, 13 August 1955, Page 7

Big Four Ministers To Work Out “Summit” Decisions

(A.z. frets Association —uopyngntj (Rec. 8 p.m.) GENEVA, August 11. The Big Four Foreign Ministers will meet in Geneva on October 27 to fulfil the peace plans of last month’s summit conference, it was announced simultaneously in Moscow, Paris, Washington and London today. The Ministers are Mr Dulles (United States), Mr Harold Macmillan (Britain), Mr Antoine Pinay (France) and Mr Molotov (Russia). Soviet acceptance of the date proposed for the meeting was given to Mr Charles E. Bohlen, the American Ambassador, acting, on behalf of his French and British colleagues who are on holiday. The brief official communique said that the meeting had been arranged “following consultations through diplomatic channels.”

The four-point task which the summit conference handed to the Foreign Ministers to consider was: German reunification. The establishment of a security system in Europe. The development of trade and communications. Whether "any further useful initiative” can be taken on disarmament in the light of the latest proceedings of the United .Nations Disarmament Commission.

United States officials were keenly interested in today’s dispatches from Switzerland, which said that the West German Chancellor, Dr. Konrad Adenauer, was expected to visit Moscow before the Foreign Ministers’ meeting. The French Prem’-r, Mr Edgar Faure, and his Foreign Minister, Mr Antoine Pinay, also will visit the Soviet capital. It is believed that the three Western Foreign Ministers will meet in New York next month to discuss the Western position at the Geneva nieetlnfiiplomatie sources said today that at the Foreign Ministers’ conference, the West probably would try to link the issues of European security with the question of German reunification. For that reason United States officials were, particularly interested in Dr. Adenauer’s trip to Moscow. They wished to see what effect, it any, the German leader’s talks with the Kremlin would have bn Dr. Adenauer’s position, the sources added.