PROSPECTS NOT GOOD
MEETING DOMINION REQUESTS. LONDON, Sept, 27. There is little prospect that the first part of a request by the Australian Minister of External Affairs (Dr Evatt)—that active belligerents should be given the right of participation at the Council table on a footing-of equality—will be conceded, says the diplomatic correspondent of the Times, discussing the Council of Foreign Ministers. The United Kingdom must fit in with the wishes of the other Powers, some of which are unlikely to agree to a wider Council. The second part of Dr Evatt's request—that the Council's conclusions should be discussed freely by'a conference of all the active " belligerents —has greater possibilities. The Potsdam Declaration already goes a long way to meet it, having stated that the Council, when considering a particular problem, may convoke a formal conference of those States chiefly interested. The Dominions' grounds for complaint would partly disappear if this procedure were adopted more freely. Yet it is clear that the Potsdam Declaration would not fully meet the Dominions' case. Britain has been eager for them to be brought into full discussion as soon as _ possible, but again she cannot decide alone. The formal conference which Potsdam envisaged must await the consent of the other Council Powers. , ,\:
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LXV, Issue 257, 28 September 1945, Page 4
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207PROSPECTS NOT GOOD Manawatu Standard, Volume LXV, Issue 257, 28 September 1945, Page 4
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