READY FOR ACTION

Otago Daily Times, Issue 26229, 13 August 1946, Page 5

READY FOR ACTION

DELEGATES IN PARIS REAL BUSINESS TO BEGIN LONDON, Aug. 11. Mr James Byrnes will take over the chairmanship of the Paris Conference as the historic parley moves from the wilderness of procedural debate to the business for which it was called—consideration of the draft treaties, says the Associated Press Paris correspondent. The first order for business to-mor-row is the wordy debate over the invitations to Albania, Egypt, Mexico, Persia, and Cuba to the conference. The conference has already heard the case of Italy against what Signor de Gasperi described as a harsh treaty, and the four former Axis satellites, Finland, Hungary, Rumania, and Bulgaria, are expected to state their reactions of the drafts during the week. The Paris correspondent of The Times, commenting on Signor de Gasperi’s speech yesterday, says that his suggestion that the Trieste question be deferred may have been made with an inkling of the wide differences between the members of the committee which has been discussing the statute for Trieste, on which there will be four reports, although the British, American, and French reports are not fundamentaly discordant. There was little peace-making activity in Paris to-day beyond conversations between the delegations.