THE CHINA MAIL, THURSDAY, AUGUST 26, 1948.
IMPORTANT MEETING AT
Stalin's Intervention Changes The "Waiting Period" Expected Stars And
For Several Days
Moscow, August 24.
The Western envoys' long talk with Marshal Stalin last night was believed here today to have completely changed the picture in the great powers negotiations over Germany,
It was thought that the Western Governments would take several days to consider Marshal Stalin's communication and co-ordinato a reply which will form the basis of the next approach. When it is fully ready and has been discussed by the envoys here, they may be expected to ask for another appointment with the Sovlet Foreign Minister, M. Vyacheslav Molotov, or with Marshal Stalin.
(Wo
will
The next day or therefore be a waiting period
here, it is thought.
ful, endloed to Paris, London and Washington their reports on their meeting with Marshal Stalin and M. Molotov.
One More Meeting?
com-
Stripes
KREMLIN Colonial
¿Washington, August 24. Marshall, Plani goods ship. ped to Europe' are", to carry a label with the Stars and Stripes the Economic ·Co. operation Administration an- -nounced today.
The fabels werd designed to emphasise that recovery goods are betry supplied by The United States-Reuter.
BANK TOOL OF AMERICA"
Picture
KASHMIR FIGHTING CLAIMS
New Delhi, August 24.
Materials For US
·~· London August. 24. British .contributions to a strategic, máterials stock pile being built up in the United States will come almost en- tirely from the colonies.
This was stated today by a spokesman of the American. Mis- "A Government of India mili-ion to the Economie Co-opera- táry spokesman said today that Hön Administr:stion (ECA). after ten months of war in
Kashmir the raiders were still
The Mission members; headed
"Just as for from their objec-by Mr. Evan Just, Director of Me Strategie · Materials Division ilve." the sinte capital of of ECA, had further discussions Srinagar.
today with the Board of Trade, The rokiers were new near Ministry of Supply and the Chardtbl, 60 miles Wes; of the Colonial Omce. capital, he said.
Cha
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was
expinined, that the The spokesman, ouillping be present military situation in primary, purpose is not to "buy Kashmir, said that the raftersome materials that might be ly held districts are flie Muzaffarn-
in ing about a British ware- house" but to provide long term neccss to such materials as rub- ber, manganese, tin and various ibres.
bnd district in Kustunir Province, the Poonch Jagir mud the districts of Shimzer, Mirpur, Palendal and Dagh.
Neither Mr. Frank Roberts, Britain's special envoy, ner M. Yves Chataigneau, the French Ambassador, had so far
Members of the Mission ex- mented on last night's talk, but
The total raider-held arca the Un
United States Ambassador,
Geneva, August 24.
covered hardly one-sixth of the pect to go to The Hague at the Rumours of another Kremlin General
Bedell Smith, Walter
Charges of political dis- provinces of Jammu
of the week,-Associated and end meeting tonight were not consid that he thought there would
crimination by
Press. the
adried-Reuter... United Kenmor, he firmed in circ.es close to the be another meeting and added:
have made a little Nations International Bank and impres- "I think we Storal enveys. The Lepresentatives
levelled slan here was that this would progress,
Monetary Fund were We rually do." be a quiet evauing and it was
Whether there would be an- by Eastern European delegates the only poss!. thought that
the Economic and Social Kremlin to ar more bility of another Kremlin
talks nobody here was prepar-Council during a four-day de meeting for arother 48 hours
ed to cay today. it was learn-bate, which ended today. could be on Soviet initiative.
ad on good nuthority that the Observers considered
envoys thems-ives expected be the last night's meeting 'to trial one.
The Western were understood to be extremely satisfled with the nature of the Striin Marshal conmuntention
nade to them 1ts mature war not ilisclosed, but it will certain- ly need the highest level niten-
the Wester tion by ments.
Govern-
there seven-
I might even be another
day rap before the next riveting but, assuming the initiative will come from the West, the answer is in Louston, Washington that Paris, not in Moscow..
All reports relating in last night's talks should be treated with some reserve for the great- est secrecy in still being main-
Olgervers think twined.
The Western envoys, instructed
and
The Western envoys were back
by their Guverents-had-been-at-work by today after hav-
other one
The Russian delegate, M. Al- exander Morozow, declared in the Council's Economic Commit- tee that the Bank, and Fund, by
States were
Meth.
TUC TURNS DOWN JOINT BOARDS
London, August 24. ·
General Bede': Smith's com- their discrimination" oguinst the Trade union chiefs have rejected the suggestion that
mut last night implied that he Eastern European thought the Western Govern- becoming merely the tools of
Have to answer American foreign policy." ments woul Marshal Stalin's communication,
The report of the Monetary told clearly the fral position of if snatched a few hours sleep., in which else at least one more
he said, showed that the Western which it is believed they, would the envoys, who seemned cheer- Kremlin.Reuter.
not bulge.
Fund,
Britain's nationalised industries should bö con- trolled by joint boards represented equally by trade unions and managements.
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powers, beyond Before they went to bed at dawn, meeting nlist take place in the curly 04 per cent of the total their independence would be in Jenme up in a debut at last year's CREAT BRITAIN - USA
That Marshal Stalin's interven-
tion, almril
sane of the
over
a 1000thing
fifferences whileh
had misen, was of such an im-
that the envoys portant unitare had to communicate unmediately with their capitals, with the re- sult that negotictions and diplo- malle exchanges continue.
Desire For Peaco
Washington Gets More Optimistic
Washington, August 24.
Marshal Stalin fa bellaved The State Department confirmed today that the
to have stressed Russia's deatre
for a peaceful regulation of the differences between the Soviet and the Western powers re- garding Berlin'
as a whole.
and Germany
four power talks in Moscow on Gormany "will continue."
Mr. Michael McDermott, the p 2. That the four powers should State Department spokesman, control any currency selected by This would l line with the said that a full account of last them as the currency of Berlin. proclaimed Soviet foreign polley night's session at the Kremlin
and all the published utterances had been received, and added: of Marshal Stalin especially his famous letter to Mr. Henry Wal-"No date has been set for an-
Ince and his wartime statements other
that there is no reason why two would give no different systems-capitalist and ment.
socialist-const placefully exist
together.
Observers
considered
meeting AO fur."
Ho
further
com-
Both
the press
and official talica
the fresction to sixmi- feant the publication in the So-took
of
Kremlin
Familiar Pattern
Diplomatic sources here ex- pected, that new instructions the repre- would be sent fo sentatives of the three Western.
The main renson-a fear that. The Joint boards. proposal
ussistance given by the Fund had danger-is explained in the Congress and since then had been
investigated by Trade
the Economic gone to Marshall Plan countries. Eannual report of the
Committee of the General Coun- Unions Congress' General
eil. The Committee rejected A
Council issued today.
"The Committee's report Polish draft resolution propos-
The report wili
pressed the view that joint ad- Ing that "investment goods and
the 800 delegates, representing ministrative boards- would des credits
should be allocated by
workers, who troy the independence the unions the Bank according to the cri-nearly 8,000,000 terion of their greatest will attend this year's Congress at present have from the ExecU-
opening at the sensitle resort of five
Activity."
A Canadian resolution, amend-Margate ed by China, was adopted. This expressed the hope that the Bank would take immedinte, measures
to hasten the examination of re- construction problems and
To
facilitate loans, particularly for economically undeveloped coun tries.-Rewer.
A
come
on September 6.
before
AIR COLLISION
Middletown, Pa., August 24.
Cx-
[ed industry of the nationalis-
The unions would be compro- mised in their relationships with both the public boards and their awn members.
"Trile unionists elected or ap- painted to Kerva au a
but
ill having ultimate
At least seven were killed when boonsibility to the union, would, i
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BULL RING COLLAPSES
Madrid, August 24.
collided
the air the plane with a B-25 Mitchell. Only the wing tip of the B-25 was dam- aged and it returned to its base.
Nine persons were in the Da-
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powere In MORCOW and that Two spectators were killed and
they would then discuss a de-400 injured, some seriously, whenketa, going to a religious meeting
interpretation of
proposals with the Soviet For:
sharp swing towards eign Minister, M. Molotov.
This would then be followed by viet journal, New Times; tonight optimism here today. This was a
from of reports by the woman result
oficial another conference with Marshal an article Journalist, Natalio-Sergeyeva (a sources in London, that Gener-Stalin to clear up any differences specialist in foreign affairs) re-alissimo Stalin, at last night's between M. Molotov and the the three envoys over the interpreta- conference with book by Edgar Snow Ave-hour viewing the
of
pro- Marshol Stalin's Western envoye, had introducention Stalin Must Have Peace." Taking Snow
posals. the "certain new ideas". Tusk for
These diplomatic sources said suggestion that Jack of mutual understanding between the Rus These were said to have clear-that was the familiar puttern of
Americans- was
for the continuance negotiation with Soviet derstandable and futural, owing of the talky, which some hud ex- but there were now two import to their different psychology and pected to end. abruptly by this ant differe different approach to many mat-wrek. Officials-declined
10
differences.
to say Firstly, the Western diplomats.
ters, Sergeyeva declared that the, what the "new ideas" might be, were now familiar with the So- Into President Roosevelt "ound but they emphasised that the viet technique and were presum- a common tonnue with the lead- fundamental question 'ws' the ably ready to adapt themselves ers of Soviet pulicy."
unequivocal recognition by
•
Seven-Day Gap
Western observers in Moscow were tonight hoping that Mar- shal Stalin Instright spoke a language underriced by the West
So- to
it to negotiate a settlement of viet Russin of the rights of the the Berlin situation.he
Secondly, on
the success of the Western powers to be in Berlin
as joint administrators of that airlift. eperations circumventing International area and the im-the Russian blockade of Western plied principles:
1. That the Western
Berlin gave the Western Allies
time to negotiate on these lines Allies without the Russians forcing
and vice verso. There was no have the right to use the roads them to reach an agreement with- Indication to the contraryond highways into Berlin.
in a specified period-Reuter,
of wooden bull
in West Connecticut, lapsed at the village of Pinedo, officer said. Seven of these the near Valenclò-Reuter.
known to be dead-Reuter,
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