FRANCE AND PEACE TREATIES
PERTINENT QUESTIONS RAISED FEARS DF CONFERENCE CONSEQUENCES (Rec. 10 a.m.) PARIS, Doc. 30. The questions which France is putting to Britain, America, and Russia, concern principally the procedure of the proposed European peace conference of 21 United Nations, says ‘ The Times ’ correspondent. France wants to know whether the Big Three Powers regard themselves as. a committee preparing recommendations for a free assemblv of sovereign nations or as a sort of Government referring proposals as a matter of form to a merely consultative body. The French Government believes that in raising these points it is acting in the interests of all nations other than the Big Three. The French outlook is not optimistic. The Government will submit, because there is no alternative, if the answers are disappointing, but it will protest and probably refuse, to allow the conference to be heldrin Paris.
The correspondent adds that French official circles nfc not enthusiastic about the Moscow results. Generally they believe the United States, by a tactical retreat resolved the deadlock which broke the London • conference, but they do not see what positive gains counter-balance the retreat, which they fear may have grave future consequences.
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Evening Star, Issue 25679, 31 December 1945, Page 5
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