Bevin Confident That The Paris Conference Will Be Successful
(Recd. 10.30 a.m.) LONDON, July 11. Britain’s Foreign Minister (Mr. Bevin) arrived at Le Bourget airport, Paris, this evening for the talks beginning tomorrow. When asked what he thought of the prospects of the Paris conference Mr Bevin replied: “Silence is golden.” Before leaving Northolt aerodrome, England, Mr Bevin joked with reporters. He said: “I should not be going if I did not think the talks will do good. ” He said he hoped to be back on July 16. M. Bidault, after greeting Mr Bevin at Le Bourget remained there and welcomed Count Sforza. The French Foreign Ministry announced that M. Bidault will try to persuade the delegates that all sessions of the conference on the Marshall plan should be open to full publicity.
Reuter says the Moscow radio anticipated the Czechoslovakian announcement of refusal to attend the Paris conference as it had anticipated Finland’s refusal. The Moscow radio yesterday afternoon discussed the Czechoslovakian refusal as a matter of course, although the Cabinet’s decision to reverse the earlier acceptance was made only after a long discussion lasting into yesterday evening. The Tass Agency reported from Bucharest that the Rumanian reply to the invitation said any plan for Europe’s economic rehabilitation could achieve the object only if based on co-operation with the Soviet Union.
“The organisation which the British and French Governments have suggested would inevitably result in an infringement of the European nations’ independence and intervention in their internal affairs.” The reply went on to deciare that the Soviet, with its abundant natural ■resources, the volume of its agriculture and the discipline of its labour was “the essential basis of any organisation aimed at Europe’s rehabilitation.” The reply concluded that that was why the Rumanian Government was unable to co-operate in the undertaking, which it considered was “economically useless and politically dangerous'.”-
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Greymouth Evening Star, 12 July 1947, Page 5
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