Austria and Trieste Disagreements

Grey River Argus, 19 April 1948, Page 5

Austria and Trieste Disagreements

LONDON. April IT. Britain, France and the United States objected at a meeting of the Foreign Ministers’ Deputies on Austria, to the Soviet proposals to include in the peace treaty a clause preventing Austria from employing foreign technicians in military and civil aviation. The meeting reached a deadlock and was adjourned.

The Soviet Government made an important concession in waiving its former insistence that th P Austrian Army and Air Force must be equipped with armaments manufre tured in Austria when the Foreign Ministers’ deputies met yesterday. The concession was made after a long re-statement of the British objections. The Russians agreed on the draft of a letter to invite Yugoslavia to submit her views on reparations and Austria’s frontiers. The Russians yesterday declined to discuss this subject. Britain, in a Note to Russia has expresssed disappointment with the Russian reply to th P , Western Powers’ proposal of. March 20 to return the free territory of Trieste to Italy. , , .. The British Note stated that the reply avoided all reference to the three Powers’ Proposals and merely raised questions of procedure. The British Noto asked Russia to state very soon its suggested procedure for considering the Western Powers’ Proposals.