FRONTIER PROBLEMS

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 87, Issue 273, 18 November 1943, Page 5

FRONTIER PROBLEMS

MUST WAIT TILL END OF WAR Recd. 9 p.m. Washington, Nov. 16. Britain and America, have agreed that the settlement of European territorial disputes should be postponed until the end of the war, said Mr. Cordell Hull at his Press conference. He explained that the Moscow formula for giving Italy political selfdetermination would serve as an example of dealing with other liberated areas, but territorial controversies must wait, “No other policy can be allowed to interfere unless someone wants to suspend the whole \ war and settle many territorial questions first,” he said. It followed that no liberated area could be dealt with finally until territorial questions were settled. The Associated Press points out that Mr. Hull would thus leave unanswered such questions as the ultimate status of the Baltic States. Mr. Hull sent a message to the Soviet Foreign Minister, Mr. Molotov, in which he expressed his confidence that in the coming months and years the recent Moscow conference would be regarded as a historic step forward in Soviet-American relations. He said it would also mark the beginning of an era of closer collaboration among all friendly nations devoted to the principles bf liberty and peace.