PEACE PROBLEMS

Greymouth Evening Star, 15 September 1945, Page 5

PEACE PROBLEMS

ITALIAN EX-COLONIES SCRAMBLE FOR CONTROL NEW YORK, Sept. 14. “The United States at the Foreign Ministers’ Council in London is trying to prevent ah Allied scramble for land and special concessions in the Italian peace settlement, thus nullifying the basic aims of the Atlantic and United Nations. Charters,” says the Washington correspondent of the “New York Herald-Tribune.” When the Secretary of State (Mr. Byrnes) left for London he took a plan which would place the Italian colonies in a United Nations trusteeship under Italian administration on the understanding that when the natives prove their ability to govern themselves they will be independent. Russia appears to support the United States proposal. “Some diplomatic observers say that Russia by refraining from a major claim in the Italian peace treaty is serving notice upon Britain, the United States, China, and France to do likewise in framing treaties with Governments in the Soviet sphere of influence. China is expected to support Russia and the United States, because her interests lie in the Pacific Britain is reported to be demanding that the colonies should be taken from Italy and placed under a United Nations administration through a trusteeship council. France is believed to be seeking rectification of the French and Italian frontiers and also the absorption of some Italian colonial areas.”

ANGLO-FRENCH ALLIANCE

(Rec. 10.50 a.m.) PARIS, Sept. 14. Lord Vansittart, in an interview published in “Le Monde” on General de Gaulle’s plan for a Western European unity, urged a formal AngloFrench treaty of alliance, which would form a hard core, around which the countries of the future European union would gather. He approved entirely of General de Gaulle’s plan. (Rec. 11 a.m.) MOSCOW, September 14. “Red Star” in an article which is regarded as an important pointer in Russian policy, accuses certain circles sin Britain and France of seeking to create a, western bloc, as a cordon sanitaire directed against Russia. Russia and America are ready to bear responsibility for the maintenance of peace throughout the world, and have sufficient political, economic, and military means to do so, says the paper. Participation of these two 'world Powers, jointly with Britain, as guarantors of the peace, is a most important condition in consolidating the United Nations’ victory, but certain circles in Britain and France and whoever at the Foreign Ministers’ conference decided to bring out plans for a so-called western bloc, evidently did not take this fact into consideration.