GERMAN TREATY

Wanganui Chronicle, 20 March 1947, Page 5

GERMAN TREATY

QUESTION OF RlGhtS OF SMALLER NATiUMb Moscow, March * 18. The Foreign Ministers’ deputies agreed to establish four committees to aid the drafting of the preliminary peace treaty for Germany, but Russia blocked participation by other Allied nations except th.? Big Four, despite British and American contentions that such allies should be included, and this question remains unsettled. The American delegate, Mr. Murphy, and Mr. Vyshinsky clashed frequently over this question. Mr. Murphy, citing Canada as an example, said that the question was not one ot “favours” but of “rights.” He said that Canada entered the war before the Soviet Union and the United State*, and she made a substantial contribution to Germany’s defeat. Mr. Vyshinsky replied that he did not question that Canada played a considerable part in the war, but special exceptions could not be made. “More blood flowed in the Soviet Union during the war than Vater flows in the Canadian rivers,’ he said. Mr Murphy retorted that the United States considered the question one of top priority and would continue ,to press it strongly.