ALGECIRAS POWERS

Otago Daily Times, Issue 25941, 6 September 1945, Page 5

ALGECIRAS POWERS

PROJECTED CONFERENCE (Rec. 10.40 p.m.) LONDON, Sept. 5. Spain was one of the 12 signatories of the Algeciras Act mentioned in the Paris communique about Tangier, but the diplomatic correspondent of The Times says it may be assumed that if General Franco remains in office thp projected conference of the Algeciras Powers will meet without a Spanish representative. The correspondent adds that to this extent, therefore. General Franco has been served with a new notice to quit. The Times, in an editorial, says the Powers represented at the Paris conference are not prepared to confer with General Franco’s Government, but if a new Government was established in Spain it would be invited to participate. A message from Washington states that qualified authorities disclosed that ■the pattern for Tangier’s new Government provides that France and Spain will each have four representatives in the Legislative Assembly and one each on the Control Commission. Britain, America, and Russia will each have three representatives in the assembly, but it is not clear yet what voice they will have on the commission. The Associated Press of America points out that it will be the first time America and Russia have had peacetime representation in the Mediterranean.