LONDON STUDYING RUSSIA’S POLICY ON DANUBE CONTROL

Greymouth Evening Star, 24 August 1948, Page 6

LONDON STUDYING RUSSIA’S POLICY ON DANUBE CONTROL

LONDON, August 23. “The logical sequels to the passing of the new Danube Convention are being studied in London,” says the diplomatic correspondent of The Times. “The leader of the Soviet delegation (Mr Vyshinsky) has now emphasised that the West’s exclusion from the Danube is part of Russian policy, and he has chosen to underline the principle that where the physical disposal of assets lies within the Soviet Union’s sole power the rights of other interested countries are to be disregarded. “There are, however, a host of problems both in Jiurope and elsewhere where physical, disposal is solely in the Western Powers’ hands but where a decision is .still being postponed ,so that Russia nhay voice her rights. “Danube trade is a small item compared with the assets involved in disposals over v/hich the Western Powers have the say.”