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BIG FOUR IN SESSION Molotov Early Practises The "No" Note

Demonstrators Kept Away

London, Nov. 25.

The conference of the Big Four Foreign Ministers, to try once more to solve the problems of Ger- many and Austria, opened here formally to- day.

It is being attended by Mr. Ernest Bevin, (Bri- tain), Mr. George Marshall, (United States), M. Vyacheslav Molotov, (Russia), and M. Georges Bidault, (France).

Mr. Bevin was authoritatively 3. The cconamle principle slated today to have reached for the future basis of the Ger agreement with M. Molotov in a man State,

1.-The preliminary talk last night on

procedure for

the

the importance of formulating a preparation of the German peaca four-wer pact on Germany, treaty. This item was agreed by

Radio Stars Burgled

Steyning, Nov. 26, Eislo and Doris Waters, singe. radlo and screen artists, have been robbed of Jewellery by burglars who broke into their country home In this Sussex town while they were in London,

Ja Tho Jewellery stolen said to Include one piece worth £480.-Reuter,

Zaibatsu

Liquidation

A Foreign Office spokesman the Foreign Ministers in the fol Hold-Up

described this meeting as friend-lowing

amended form-"the

Meyers Case Gaining Momentum

Washington, Nov. 25. The Government today launch-

by

daceret grand jury in- wartime the vestigation of business deals carried on Major Generat Itennett E. Meyers, who rose to Deputy Air Force Purelinaing Chief.

District

A 23-man

Court,

panel began reviewing the data assembled by the Senate Wor Investigating Committer which was told that the retired Army officer secretly owned and took US$150,000 in proits out of a aircraft parta Dayton, Ohio, factory.

ly. Mr. Bevin lao entertaine : | preparation of the German pene?

Washington, Nov. 25. Mr. Marshall

United States members of the last night nn treaty (frontiers and procedure)

Consequently this item In-Far Eastern Commission are con. saw M. dault this morning.

tsidering teclinical amendments The first problem facing the cludes the French proposal

to the proposals regarding the Meanwhile, the State of New Foreign Ministers in In what discuss the German frontiers.

quidation of the Zaibatsu which York has storted a separate order they are setss the

Soviet Proposals

nay slightly delay their sue, probe of the afairs of Meyers,

Ал officini Fold various subjects. Britain, France

that while

Force has nl. whom the Alr and the United States want to To these previously agreed United States polley regarding start with the Austrian peace items, the Foreign Ministers to the Zaibatsu liquidation remains ready removed from a US$549 and stripped EDMO Commissich monthly pension Soviet Union's unchanged, treaty to give her sovereign 8-day added the dependence, Russia insists that proposal for a discussion on the members have suggested that the of his medals.

on liquidation, which Is Commissioner Spencer E. the Conference should start four-power disarmament and paper

still nt the "lowest working laten nunced at Albany, with the many napeets of the demilitarisation treaty proposed levels," is los long and compileat New York, that the New York Med. German problem and discuss by Mr. James F. Byrnes,

State Tax Commission is in- Austria Jos

Marshall's predecessor, and the In view of these objections, as

vestigating to determine whe GA the fact that some A today's formal opening Soviet proposal for a discussion well

from ther General Meyers filed pro- returning the businessmen the Foreign Ministers were tm of the implementation of

returns income tax derstood to be discussing their decisions taken by the Moscow Japan had technical suggestions per state

to offer, United States officials for his wartime and postwar agenda. Mr. Bevin, in his open-meeting of the Foreign Minister wished to give further study to incomes. ing remarks as Chairman, pro- Conference on the demilitariants working. The United States

an Meyers has

estate at posed that daily meetings should tion of Germany.

is still committed. to a policy of Huntington, New York.. be of three hours duration. The Big Four Ministers were liquidation and no deviation from|

The Army has announced it! This proposal appeared to have assembled in the vestibule of that principle is under considera will bring court martial action been accepted by all the four Lancaster House three minutes tion.-United Press:

against Meyers, after Federal before the Conference was due

Court proceedings are complot- London. Nov. 24, to start.

Britain has

General Tom appointed Sir cd. Attorney Shortly before, the five Horace Seymour, former British Clark has announced that a Ush husbands of the Russian Ambassader in China, as United Federal grand jury at Balti- women who were not allowed Kingdom representative on the more May consider Meyers' leave Russia had attempted to United Nations Balkan Commis Pederal income tax returna.-

the building, carrying sion set by by resolution of the Associated Press. picket

Rus- United Nations General Assem- placards in English and slan reading "We are the Bn.bly on Oct. 21. Sir Horace in- fish husbands without our Rus- tends to go to Grecce in about ten slan wives". The police prevent day's time.Reuter. in the agenda. But they did noted them from getting anywher solve the order in which they are near M. Molotov, to be discaused.

Minister.

The Agenda The Foreign Ministers today

in Include

their agreed to agenda a proposed draft treaty for the disarmament and demili- tarisation of Germany. put for ward by Mr. Marshall, the Am- crican Secretary of State,

The Big Four also agreed on a list of six items to be included

The previously agreed

Spectacular Arrival

Mr. Bevin looked dour and de- termined, He waved at the crowd, shivered and said: "It's cold."

PARDON REFUSED

Budapest, Nov. 25. General Gustav Jany, Han- garian wartime leader against was Ruaala, sentenced to death by Marthe Budapest People's Court as Rou-a criminal, was refused a par- don today by Dr. Zoltan Tildy, the Hungarian President,

General Jany, will be shot within 48 hours.-Reuter.

The items include four points. M. Molotov's arrival was the previously agreed by the For-most spectacular. A police out- The biggest applause eign Ministers deputies and two rider came roaring into the reserved for Mr. George others,

square followed by police, then shall, the last to arrive. Hems came the great blick Russian ter.

hmousine with the Hammer, and Molotov Stubborn Aus-Sickle

the on its bonnet and

McJotov steadfastly blocked Russian flog flying.

early conclusion of a treaty of in- blue dependence for Austria,

are:

1.The report of the trian treaty commission.

of

2. The form and scope the future provisional political organisation of Germany.

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New York, Nov, 24. More than 20 major executives

sily Sokolovsky, the Soviet stoned plea cf M. Georges Bidault of the motion picture industry met presentative on the Allied Con-(France), who sold they must to-day with Eric Johnson, Presi trol Council in Berlin and author agree on something quickly the elation of America, amid reports dent of the Motion Pictures Asso- of the speech there last week- uxlous world expects it."

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to "eliminate known In the ornate con.Krammo American policy in Germany.hour session

Communists' from their studios. the boudoir The dapper M. Bidault was ference room once with the veteran French soldier, position: Germany was more im- smiling broadly when he arrived of a Duchess long since dead, and Associated Press.

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