MINISTERS' COUNCIL

Greymouth Evening Star, 17 September 1945, Page 5

MINISTERS' COUNCIL

ITALIAN PEACE TREATY FURTHER OPINIONS INVITED LONDON, September 14. The Council of Foreign Ministers began a discusssion on the- terms for the peace settlement with Italy. They decided to invite all the United Nations which were at war with Italy to submit in writing their views on a draft treaty. It was also agreed to invite Italy, Jugoslavia, Australia, New Zealand, Canada, India, and South Africa each to nominate a representative to attend the Foreign Ministers’ meeting next Monday to express their Government’s views on the question of the Italian-Jugoslav frontiers. The Council had two sessions today, the first under the chairmanship of Mr Wang Shi-chieh and the second under the chairmanshiup of Mr James Byrnes (United States). It also decided to estabfish a joint secretariat comprising the secretaries of the five delegates at the present meeting.

LONDON, September 16. The Foreign Ministers’ Council, at its fifth meeting yesterday, agreed to add the names of Poland, the Ukraine and Byelo-Russia to the list of countries invited to submit their views, in writing, on the Italian peace settlement. M. Bidault presided. The greater part of the last two council meetings were devoted to the consideration of the question of the Italian colonies. It was decided to refer the question to the Ministers’ deputies for detailed study. The deputies were asked to submit their recommendations before the date—to be agreed on later—of the Council’s second session. ITALIAN CLAIMS. (Rec. 10.40 a.m.) ROME, September 16. The “Morgan line,” dividing the British, American and Jugoslav zones in Venezia Augila, is unacceptable as the final solution of the bpundary between Italy and Jugoslia, said Premier Parri, in an interview with “Giornale del Mattino.” It is simply a military line and does not take into consideration either ethnical or economic necessities, and does not meet either Italian or Jugoslav requirements.

Discussing the colonies l acquired by Italy before Fascism, Dr. Parris said they were occupied with the consent of the interested Powers and never menaced anyone. Italian administration in it was certainly not inferior to that of any other Power. He believed a democratic colonial policy would fully meet the rights of local populations, particularly the Arabs, with whom Italy desired to resume and cultivate the traditional policy oi friendship. The Foreign Minister, Degasperi, left for London by air to state Italy’s policy regarding the peace treaty before the Council of Foreign Ministers. The Belgrade radio reports that the Foreign Minister, Subasic, who recently suffered a stroke, is unable to go to London. Vice-Premier Evard Kardelj is heading the Jugoslav delegation to the Foreign Ministers’ Council.

TRIESTE TERRORISTS. (Rec. 1.30 p.m.) LONDON, September 16. A reign of terror is going on in the lonely hinterland of .Trieste, says the “Daily Mail's” Trieste correspondent. The Allied Area Commissioner in Gorizia Province, Lieut.Colonel J. C. Smuts, announced that the Mayor of San Leonardo, near Cividale, who was appointed by the Allies, was ambushed and killed. He added that the threat of the unknown is taking away liberty of thought from the people and making them act against their will. AUSTRIAN OIL LONDON, September 14. Reports of Russian negotiations with the Renner Government for a big share in Austria’s oil production may lead to representations to the council of Foreign Ministers, states the diplomatic correspondent of the “Daily Mail.” Frencn and American, as well as British interests, are seen to be involved. It is understood that the Russians did not consult their three partners on the Allied Control Commission. It is announced that an oil conference in London between representatives of Britain and the United States will begin in London on Tuesday. The British Minister of Fuel (Mr Shinwell) will lead the British delegation. The Chancellor of the Exchequer (Mr Dalton) will also take part. PROPOSED NEW GROUP. (Recd. 11.35 a.m.) PARIS, Sept. 16. M. Blum, in an article in “Le Populaire” urged the formation of a Western European family of nations as one of the necessary conditions for peace. He stipulated, however, that the group must be neither antiRussian politically nor anti-American economically.” I and our Labour Party comrades in Britain hope for an intimate rapprochement between Britain and France.”

M. Blum added that in the future the Italian and Spanish Republics and other democratic states in northern and Western Europe would be attracted to the union because of the pre-existing links between the peoples resulting from centuries of the common history and civilisation. He emphasised that the proposed pact did not represent an attempt ,to~supplant the United Nations.

(Rec. 1.35 p.m.) LONDON, Sept. 16. The “Daily Mail” says me xvremlin spokesman, broadcasting over the Moscow radio, denounced “the attempts by British and French reactionaries to revive the idea of a Western European bloc under a new form masquerading as a Socialist Western bloc, directed against Russia and America.”