SLOW PROGRESS

Evening Star, Issue 25893, 10 September 1946, Page 7

SLOW PROGRESS

PARIS CONFERENCE AGREEMENT CIAUBE BY CLAUSE (Rec 11.55 a.m,) . PARIS, Sept. 9. For the first time since the conference opened the Big Four representatives agreed on an unagreed clause in one of the peace treaties. Their Balkan Committee representatives decided to redraft a clause in the Rumanian treaty concerning reciprocal rights to industrial, artistio, and literary property. The committee will consider the revised text tomorrow. The Military Committee provisionally approved the annexes of the Italian treaty dealing with ships which are to be left to Italy which were placed at the Big Four’s disposal, thus completing the provisional approval otf all the treaty’s military clauses except that covering the .disposal of surplus war material. . ' M. Stov Bebler (Yugoslavia) moved an omnibus amendment in the Italian |Comroittee seeking rectification throughout of the French Line which the Big Four agreed to as the Yugo-slav-Italian frontier. The proposed line takes in the Kanal Valley, in ivhich. M Bebler said. “ Italians have been artificially planted in the last decade, though the area is basically Slav.'’ M Bebler’s amendment followed a suggestion from the chairman, M. Egeland, that the committee consider the Yugoslav, Byelo-Rossinn, and South African amendments to leave a sub-committee the question of settting the size of the free city limits, as there is no question of not approving the Big Four proposal to make Trieste a free and international city. M. Bebler had presented only the first part of his amendment when the committee adjourned, v ■ >