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point only. This formula provided for the renewal of diplomatic relations, for the revision or negotiation of frontier conventions in order to prevent frontier incidents, and for the establishment of Joint Frontier Commissions to act as conciliating bodies in the event of disputes arising from incidents at the borders. The one point in dispute was the demand by Albania that Greece should formally (de jure) recognize the existing boundary between the two countries as definitive ; but the Conciliation Committee made little progress towards a solution. While the areas of specific dissent outlined above might have been reduced by conciliation (and were so reduced, in so far as little disagreement remained between Greece and Yugoslavia), the methods of conciliation were hardly appropriate to deal with the view thrown into the Conciliation Committee by the Soviet Union, and echoed by Albania and Bulgaria. The Soviet Union set out the following measures which it deemed " essential for the regulation of the position in Greece " : an appeal by the Powers to the conflicting parties to cease military operations should be made, and a general amnesty declared ; general free elections, supervised by representatives of the Powers, including the Soviet Union, should be carried out by a supreme Greek body which would include representatives of " Greek democratic circles at the head of the national freedom movement in Greece " ; a Joint Commission of the Powers, including the Soviet Union, should be established to control the frontiers between Greece and its northern neighbours ; concurrently there should be a declaration on the cessation of foreign military assistance to Greece, and the setting of a time-limit for the withdrawal of foreign troops from Greece. With some delegations taking such an approach and with others feeling that the Conciliation Committee was not authorized to discuss proposals connected with the internal affairs of Greece, the Conciliation Committee reached dead-lock, and its Chairman reported on 18 October, after twenty-nine meetings, that it was unable to develop a basis of conciliation on which agreement could be reached between Albania, Yugoslavia, Bulgaria, and Greece, and that accordingly it must suspend its activities. United Nations Special Committee on the Balkans A general discussion on " threats to the political independence and territorial integrity of Greece " took place after the failure to achieve a settlement through conciliation. It centred around the report of the Conciliation Committee, the report of UNSCOB, a draft resolution by Australia, China, the United Kingdom, and the United States of America based on the findings of UNSCOB and referring to the report of the Conciliation Committee, and the draft proposals of the U.S.S.R* After long and often passionate debate the Soviet resolution was rejected

* See page 13.