DANUBE CONFERENCE
BRITISH DELEGATE DENIES SOVIET CHARGES BELGRADE, Aug. 3. Britain would not be bullied by the Russian delegation, and would not “ jump to the crack of Mr Andrei Vyshinsky’s whip,” the British delegate (Sir Charles Peake) told the Danube Conference. Sir Charles denied Mr Vyshinsky s accusation of July 31 that the Western Powers presented an ultimatum to th_ conference, and said that Mr Vyshinsky, in attacking the British delegation, “ mistook me for a prisoner m the dock and himself for the prosecu tor.” Britain had merely stated that the 1921 Danube Convention could not be altered without the consent of. ah signatories. This was not an ultimatum.
At to-day’s meeting France supported the British view, but Mr Vyshinsky told the conference that Russia considered the 1921 convention null and void, because Britain and France had violated it.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 26842, 5 August 1948, Page 5
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