CONFERENCE OPENS
FOREIGN MINISTERS IN PARIS ITALIAN TREATY FIRST ITEM. (Rec. noon.) LONDON, April 25. The Foreign Ministers' Conference opened in Paris at 4 p.m. to-day. The Italian peace' treaty will be the first item on the agenda. Before the meeting began Mr Ernest Bevin said he was optimistic. M. Bidault said he was prepared to sit two months to reach an agreement. M. Charles Dumas, writing in ' La Populaire,' the French Socialist organ, says: "Neither wo nor the AngloSaxon Powers approve of secret diplomacy, believing that the peoples whose destinies are being planned have a right to know how they are being treated, but Russia prefers a settlement from above. Russia's policy is based on military or political force. No one knows how far she aims to extend her hegemony." In Brussels M. Spaak, who had just returned from London where he met Mr Bevin, said he felt that Mr Bevin approved of the proposal that the smaller nations should be heard by the Foreign Ministers on the subjeet of Germany.
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Evening Star, Issue 25776, 26 April 1946, Page 7
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