STILL IN FLUID STATE

Southland Times, Issue 25652, 20 April 1945, Page 5

STILL IN FLUID STATE

U.S. Policy For San

Francisco

(Rec. 10 p.m.) NEW YORK, April 19. The United States Secretary of State, Mr Edward R. Stettinius, announced that the United States delegation had reached agreement on all the major problems for the San Francisco Conference, reports the Washington correspondent of The New York Times. However, well-informed circles say that the delegates have not yet fixed a course regarding trusteeships for the Pacific Islands, the voting procedure in the security council and the Polish Government problem. These issues are still in a fluid state and may be settled at a meeting of the Big Four foreign ministers in Washington this weekend.

President Truman, Mr Stettinius, the Secretary of War, Mr Henry L Stimson, the Secretary of War, and the Secretary of the Navy, Mr J. V. Forrestal, are reported to have discussed the trusteeship issue and to have adopted a formula protecting the United States’ vital interests. It is learned that Mr Forrestal and Mr Stimson who have been attending the American delegates’ meetings in the past few days, are understood to have urged the delegation not to commit itself to a formula of an exacting surrender of island bases considered essential for American security. As a result, the delegates are believed to be unlikely to endorse a formula for international control. RUSSO-POLISH DEADLOCK A London message states that the British Ambassador to Moscow, Sir Archibald Clark-Kerr, will go to America to take part in the conference in Washington between the Soviet Foreign Commissar, M. Viacheslav Molotov, the United States Secretary of State, Mr Edward K. Stettinus and the British Foregin Secretary, Mr Anthony Eden, who are meeting there to find a solution of the Russo-Polish deadlock. Sir Archibald Kerr has been the British representative on the commission of three set up by the Crimea Conference to conduct negotiations for the formation of a new Polish Government on a broader basis. Other members of that commission are Mr Averill W. Harriman, the United States Ambassador to Moscow, and M. Molotov.

It is understood that Mr Harriman will also go to Washington so that the three foreign secretaries will have the benefit' of the ambassador’s experience and wide knowledge on all matters involved in trying to reach a solution that would enable Poland to be represented at San Francisco. The British Minister of State, Mr Richard Law, answering a question on Poland in the House of Commons on behalf of Mr Eden made a statement about reported direct Russo-Polish negotiations. Commander R, T. Bower (Conservative) had asked if in the course of the discussions which culminated in the Yalta Agreement a procedure was contemplated such as that now being followed' in the negotiations initiated on March 15 between the Vice-Premier and the Polish Government in London, the Polish Underground leaders and representatives of Russia. Mr Law replied: “No, sir.” But the main aim of the Crimea Declaration on Poland was the establishment of a new Polish Provisional Government of National Unity by the re-organization of the present provisional government on a broader democratic basis, with the inclusion of democratic leaders from Poland itself and from Poles abroad. Although the Crimea Declaration did not contemplate discussions of the character described by Commander Bower, there is no reason why they should be ruled out if they contributed to achieving the main aim of the Crimea Declaration.”