THE CHINA MAIL, JULY 6, 1989.
TRIPLE ALLIANCE
PREMIER TO MAKE STATEMENT TO-DAY
Cabinet Discusses
Negotiations For Two
Two Hours
London, To-day. Details of two meetings of the Cabinet held yester- day have been revealed by a well-informed
source.
In the morning the Cabinet approved the draft of a statement which the Prime Minister will make in the House of Commons this afternoon (Thursday).
HIGHER
DUTIES ON ITALIAN SILK
Washington, To-day,
The Treasury has imposed ex- traduties on all Italian goods wholly or partly of silk as the re- sult of an investigation showing that Italy is subsidising the ex- port of silk goods.
Treasury officers stated that the action had no political signifi- cance.--Reuter.
treated with great forbearance in the House and in the country?" The contents of this statement were submitted last GROWING DOUBTS
night to the British charge d'affaires in War- Mr. Pilkington (Conservative) saw, who immediately conferred with the Po-there is a doubt beginning to grow "Is the Prime Minister aware that lish Foreign Minister, Col. Beck.
After the conference, the charge d'affaires informed Down- ing Street of Poland's consent to the statement.
Paris was also informed and gave a similar answer last night through the French Ambassador in London.
In the afternoon the Cabinet decided to ask Parliament to agree to an increase in export credit funds for Warsaw by a Jarge amount.
GUARANTEE PLAN DROPPED
arma-
It is planned to give Poland credits to accelerate her ment, and rumour says the credit will amount to several million pounds.
BARRAGE OF QUESTIONS
London, To-day, The Prime Minister told
the Commons, yesterday afternoon that the reply of the Soviet Govern- ment to the most recent Anglo- French proposals in connection with the anti-aggression pact had been received on Tuesday and were now being considered in consulta- tion with the French Government. In official circles it is not expect- ed that fresh instructions to the British and French Ambassadors in, Moscow will be despatched before this evening at the earliest.
It is assumed that the Cabinet, which met twice yesterday-for two and a half hours in the morn-- ing at No. 10 and again in the evening in the and
Prime Minister's
"It is learned that the Cabinet decided to drop the plan to guar- antee the Netherlands Switzerland.
room at the House of Commons- was concerned among other mat- As to the Baltic States, it is ters with the Moscow negotiations. learned that Moscow emphasised The Prime Minister's statement that any change of the constituat question time in the Commons tion of these countries by foreign gave rise to a brisk exchange of pressure would be considered supplementaries. threat to their independence, and consequently a threat to Russia.
[“GREAT, FORBEARANCE”
Mr. Hugh Dalton (Labour) ask- ed: "Is it true, as stated in
the SOVIET PROPOSAL press to-day, that one of the out- standing difficulties relates to the Yesterday morning's Cabinet new proposals put forward by the meeting in London, which was de- Government for further extension voted entirely to the triple al- of the lists of States to be guarante liance negotiations, lasted more ed."
are
than two hours, and the after- The Prime Minister: "I do not noon meeting was held in the think it desirable to enter into de- Prime Minister's room in the tails of what the differences House of Commons.
which are yet unsolved. It would Press reports state that among be a mistake to suppose that diffi the matters considered was aculties arise from one Soviet proposal that Poland and
side only." Mr. Dalton: "These negotiations Rumania conclude a mutual as- have now been dragging, on for sistance pact with the Soviet. three months. Does the ePrime
LITHUANIA
AND THE TRIPLE ALLIANCE
Warsaw, To-day.
M. Natkewiczius, the Lithuanian Minister to Moscow, who has been on home leave, broke off his vacation yesterday suddenly to re- turn immediately to Moscow.
The Polish newspaper "Kujer Warszawki states that this sudden return of the Lithuanian Minister
to Moscow is due to the fact that the Soviet Government has now de- manded from Britain and France the additional guarantee of Lithu- anía.
in this country whether the Soviet
"M. Molotov, according to the Government wants this treaty?"
Warsaw paper, insists that in view" Mr. Vyvyan Adams
of German action in the Baltic, the (Conserva- tive) asked if the Government had guarantee of Lithuania is impera- considered sending a Cabinet Minis-
tive.—Trans-Ocean. ter to Moscow..
the Prime Minister.-British Wire-
No further answer was given by less.
JACKIE
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