DELAYING TACTICS

Greymouth Evening Star, 9 August 1946, Page 7

DELAYING TACTICS

WESTERN VIEW OF RUSSIA AT CONFERENCE DANGER OF EUROPEAN SPLIT LONDON, August 8. ' “The view is being freely expressed in Britain and American circles that the Soviet, delegation to the Paris Conference is employing delaying tactics as part of a general policy to postpone the resettlement of western Europe,” says Reuter’s correspondent in Paris. “There is an impression in the lobbies of Luxembourg Palace that the conference so far has done more to divide than unite Europe. Some delegates estimate that the conference will now drag on until September 13 without reaching final agreement on the five treaties, and then adjourn until mid-autumn on the plea that it cannot overlap the meeting of

the United Nations. “The discussions by the Bules Committee have caused a sense of acute

disappointment and frustration in French quarters. An official French observer summed up French feeling by regretting the ‘Anglo-Saxon’ determination to force a voting defeat on Mr. Molotov over procedure. “The French feeling is that the conference in the last 48 hours has 1 proved how near Europe is to being divided into two camps. “As a result of Mr. Byrnes’s chal-

lenge, the Tass Agency is- distributing full copies of the speeches made by Mr. Byrnes and Mr. Molotov at the meeting of the Rules Committee yesterday to all Russian newspapers and broadcasting stations.”