PARIS CONFERENCE

Greymouth Evening Star, 29 July 1946, Page 5

PARIS CONFERENCE

Confusion over Draft T reaties A LATE DISAGREEMENT (Recd. 1 p.m.) LONDON, July 28. “The conference looks like getting off to a confusing start,” says the diplomatic correspondent of the Press Association. “Permission to publish the texts of the five draft treaties was withdrawn at the last minute because the Foreign Ministers’ deputies disagreed on what should be published. The Central. Office of' Information early this morning announced that it had been decided that simultaneous publication of the draft treaties should be made in London, Washington, Paris and Moscow at 11 p.m. G.M.T. on July 28. Later the Foreign Office announced that publication had been cancelled. The Press Association’s diplomatic correspondent says that confiision began with an American leakage, after which Washington proposed almost immediate publication. Although every available Foreign Office printer was turned to the job, sufficient copies for distribution in London could not be’ completed m time. The Central Office of Information had made the texts available to all newspaper services in London when the cancellation was notified. London officials are doubtful whether it will be possible to prevent publication in some countries. It is expected that the press in the United Nations countries will withhold the texts, but some neutral and former enemy countries, to whom the texts were cabled, are likely to disregard the cancellation.