ESTABLISHMENT BY STAGES

Evening Star, Issue 26067, 3 April 1947, Page 7

ESTABLISHMENT BY STAGES

GERMAN PROVINCIAL GOVERNMENT —-- — -V'.' ;: FRANCE SUPPORTS BRITAIN (Rec. 12.25 ; p.m.) MOSCOW, April 2. M. Bidaillt, at a meeting of the Foreign Ministers) agreed to the British proposal for establishing a pro- j visional government in ;Gerhiany m a aeries of stages, but he added that the French believed the stages could not be put into effect until economic unity ,was achieved, German frontiers flxea, and certain constitutional principles thoroughly defined. The conference referred the, whole .question of future government for Germany to the Coordinating Committee. • , Mr Marshall sought to abolish ” the veto in the Allied Control Council In matters relating to the German Government, but M. Molotov opposed the proposal. ■ M. Molotov, discussing the German Government, said the constitution should be based on the Weimar Constitution, except that the President’s exshould be limited, Mr ißevin and Mr Marshall both considered that the kind of constitution should be left to the German people. The United States, France, 1 And Britain all thought the Provisional Government should be composed of representatives of the German States, -most of whom had been. elected. M. Molotov declared that the Russian view Was that representatives of trade unions, political parties, and anti-Faselst organisations should, make up the Government.