UNO PRESIDENT CONFERS WITH MR VYSHINSKY

Greymouth Evening Star, 19 October 1948, Page 5

UNO PRESIDENT CONFERS WITH MR VYSHINSKY

(Rec. 10.5 a.m.) PARIS, Oct. 18. Dr Juan Bramuglia (Argentine), acting president of the Security Council conferred for more than an hour with M'r Vyshinsky, (Soviet) on the crisis. He expects to meet the three Western representatives later today in preparation fqr the Security Council meeting on Berlin tomorrow.

After a three-day visit to Vienna, Berlin and Frankfurt,'-’the American Republican Party’s adviser on foreign affairs, Mr John. Foster Dulles, said in Paris today that Russia’s bid to shift the Western Powers out of Berlin by “invoking starvation, disease and fear” had back-fired. Mr Dulles said that whereas he was impressed by the high level of morale in Western Germany, the morale of the Soviet zone Germans had “reached a ‘new low’ ”. Mr Dulles said that Austria was making an impressive economic recovery and had a “solid” political situation.

Russian Sector Sealed Off

In Berlin today the Soviet sector police completely sealed off the Russian sector in a big anti-blackmarket drive. They set up control posts on all the roads and bridges on the sec-, tor boundaries and all vehicles and pedestrians entering the Western sectdr were searched. However, traffic entering the Soviet sector was unmolested.’ 'The official Soviet-licensed newspaper, Taegliche Rundschau, said: “From now on every road vehicle, every train, every bridge and every pedestrian leaving the Soviet sector will be searched-for illegal goods.” Dr Ferdinand Friedensburg, Acting Lord Mayor of Berlin, said today that he was about to secure the release of West-sector Berlin policemen and City officials held by the Russian authorities. These people were arrested during the 48-hour Soviet siege of the City Hall early in September. Communists Lose Ground The Communists lost ground m the local elections yesterday in the popular state of Westphalia, whereas the Social Democrats and Christian Democrats gained. In Dusseldorf, Communist polling declined from 14 to 9 per cent. in Cologne from 15 to 11, and in Essen from 20 to 10, compared with the previous election. The almost complete economic merger o£ the ttiree Western zones ol Germany was effected when a , Power agreement was signed in Be lin today, merging the joint AngloAmerican export-import agency with its French counterpart. Reuter’s Berlin correspondent says that the French-licensed German newsKurier reports that General ®lter von Seydlitz, who founded the National Committee for Free Germany after the German surrender at Stalingrad, has arrived from Russia with authority to reorganise the Soviet zone’s police force. “A Living Wall Berliners formed a living wall aeainst Bolshevisms attack on the West said Mr Jakob Kaiser, the Christian Democrat leader, at a party meeting inthe American sector of Berlin “The Soviets will not lest until thev subjugate all the territory they he added. “Then they will try to control all Germany and Europe. We will oppose the attempt with iron determination. Communism would- not be a problem in Germany if there were no Soviet bayonets.” Mr Wilhelm Pieck, chairman of the Communist-dominated German Socialist Unity Party, in an article m the newspaper Neues ■ Deutschland, revealed that a Communist purge was going on in the Soviet zone. Mr Pieck wrote: “The enemy has succeeded m sending his agents into our ranks. Their hostile propaganda has caused considerable disturbance in our party. There must be a check on the party’s leadership.”