FRANCE ACCEPTS
BIG THREE PLANS PEACE CONFERENCE ITALY’S TREATY FIRST GO' a.m.) LONDON, Jan. 17. The French Government has accepted the Three Powers’ suggestion for a world peace conference to be held in Paris on May 1, says Reuter's correspondent in Paris. The Foreign Minister, M. Bidault, told the Cabinet Ministers that the Secretary of State, Mr. James Byrnes, on behalf of Britain, America, and Russia, that 18 other nations at the May conference would have a definite say in the text of the pacts with Italy, Rumania. Bulgaria, Hungary, and Finland. It had been decided that France would be a signatory to only the Italian peace treaty. France had asked the three Powers whether countries like Greece and Yugoslavia, victims of Italian aggression, would not also at least be heard regarding such a treaty. M. Bidault added that he had been assured that the council of five deputy Foreign Ministers would continue to function. The correspondent says this council will begin preliminary work on the Italian peace pacts' during the United Nations’ conference in London.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 21923, 18 January 1946, Page 3
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