BIG THREE HEADS

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22513, 17 December 1947, Page 7

BIG THREE HEADS

MEETINGS URGED SUGGESTIONS IN U.S. WEST MAY SIGN PACT (N.Z.P.A. —Copyright.) (10 a.m.) WASHINGTON. Dec. 16. Faced with long-term implications of an indefinite postponement of meetings of the Council of Foreign Ministers, official Washington sought a substitute for the four-world diplomatic machinery established at the Yalta’Conference, ranging from a proposal for another meeting of President Truman, Marshal Stalin and Mr, Attlee to the hope of resuscitation of top-level Big Three relations through normal diplomatic channels.

Some are disposed to advocate a revival of meetings of the heads of States on the ground that Marshal Stalin, in his interview with Mr. Marshall earlier in the year, had made it clear that only after the second-rank Foreign Ministers had completely exhausted all avenues of compromise could the heads of States finally reach an agreement. It is expected in official quarters in Washington that the collapse of the Foreign Ministers’ session in London will be followed by British, French and American conversations to consider the next move in the -light of the new world diplomatic set-up which has been created.

New three-Power conversations might include the negotiation of a three-power treaty to _ guarantee the disarmament and denazification of Germany along the lines suggested by Mr. James Byrnes when he was Secretary of State. „

Mr. Byrnes said that Britain, France and the United States should conclude a 40-year non-aggression pact for Germany without delay and call a fulldress peace conference to write the treaties for Germany and Austria — without Russia, if necessary. The conference should be attended by all countries which took a "significant” part in the war against Germany. The chief objection against such a conference, namely, that if a treaty was signed without Russia, it would leave only Russian troops in Germany, could be met effectively by l signing a _ nonaggression pact which he originally advocated and which Mr. Marshall was not sponsoring since it would specifically provide that United States troops would remain in Germany for the next 40 years.