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SETTLEMENT IN EAST
Issue Brought Up At Big Four Conference JAPAN PEACE TREATY
Paris, May 23.
The whole question of the peace settlement in the Far East was surprisingly raised by the Soviet Foreign Minister, M. Androi Vishinsky, after an agreement on the agenda at today's moot- ing of the Council of Foreign Ministers.
M. Vishinsky said that the Ministers should, perhaps, raise one more point which, though not concerned with the agenda of the present session, is
He referred to another peace treaty- very much in all their minds.
that with Japan,
The Soviet delegation, M. Viskinsky said, would like to discover when the Council of Foreign Ministers will hold its next session-with Chino parti- cipating and deal with the draft treaty for Japan.
The US. Secretary of State, Mr. Dean Acheson, said that this 1 barily a question for discus- Gion at this time, At Potsdam. Foreign where the Council of Ministers had been set up, dapan had not been dealt with, a Far
Eastern Commission exists for in- Inter-Allied discussion of the Japanese question and it is not
the
arrive. They were dispersed by the police.
With the Ministers were their
Mt. Vishinsky principal advisers. came in his usual bustling style, stepping briskly to the table and shaking hands with the American aclegates, who are his neighbours at the table.
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THE CHINA MAIL, WEDNESDAY, MAY 28, 1949.
RED MOVE AIMED AT 7 MacARTHUR
Tokyo, May 24, The Russian move in the Parla conference, calling for an early peace treaty with Japan, is viewed by diplom** tie observers hara as an at- tempt to get General Mac. Arthur out of Japan.
Sources close to MacArthur said they had expected the Russian mandauvre because the American occupation commander the biggest obstacle to Communlat ax- pansion In the Far East.
They admit the move has put the Western powers in awkward position with
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the Japanese people at a time when the Reds ara making gains elsewhere in Asia United Pranu.
DEFENCE MEASURE
London, May 23. A Parliamentary Bill that will speed up the mobilisation of Britain's, spare-time soldiers. sailors and airmen in the event of a real or expected emer- gency was published today.
Auxi-
The Bli entitled The
Foochow Looks Into The Future Calmly
(Exclusivo To "China Mail”)
Wo print below extracts from a lotter just received from a European exporter in Foochow, giving his considered opinion of the probable effect of Chinese Communism on the famous too port," and throughout Fukien.
The writer is Mr. Wm. M. S. Brand, author of the articles on Foochow's past and present now appearing in the "Sunday Herald." As he has spent a lifetime there, his comments are worthy of consideration.
While the future is pregnant strain; the country being so vast with possibilities, I am of the and so full of confileting pro- opinion it will prove that we here blems and theories and so forth, will be luckier than many else- All of which I felt many years where; but they have had ample ago. when Chiang Kai-shek
his
could worning from their respective or established
regime, genisations and consular authori- have been adequately
met had ties, and they choose to remain he had the statesmen they have only themselves to round him established at blame if their treatment should hal €1 form In prove
rough. We business foreigners are
are but
wan,
a
As-
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Parliament representative of the South, North-West and a trifling handful and with one the Three Eastern Provinces, to exception (Hawke of Ewo) are meet twice a year to thrash residents of long standing: out their own particular pro. secondly, there is no concession blems and for satisfactory solu four-power control of Germany
here. I predict that if a change tions thereef to be incorporated the first point on the agenda, Mr.
occurs it will be a peaceful turn-into National Law, Acheson stressed the Importance
over.
A Misconception This part of China has never of Germany being viable and be
I still think the establishment in its history been 100 per cent
representative ing master of its own economic
with the North or the South, but of such house. He said that he does not
has secretly desired its own in-sembly at Shanghai o probability wish to exclude any matter from liory and Reserve Forces Bill
of Tal-
and one answer to the problems consideration, but he does not will enable the Tertitorials and dependence with that
on the domestic or home front. whitch wish an individual subject to be other categories of Auxiliaries and
island it claims by Foreigners in general have for race, customs and Reservists to be called out in an
habits is on Isolated.
ars laboured under the miscon- Mr. Acheson thought that M. emergency for home defence with-integral part of the mainland
the
Emzeption that China's lack of com- Jader both might lead out e proclamation by the King.
formed the perors Under it, various auxiliary and to such isointion of the individual
reserve categories, after embodi- of China never received the at- missing link in progress during aspects of the problem.
transition of
and periods tention should have done, 50 Mr. Bevin supported Mr. Ache-ment in the main forces during
construction, quite
quite oblivious of if now it desires to taste some an emergency, will be able for son. He said that all these ques-
the fact that great emergencies manner of fresh government Is tions were intimately related. M. service overseas.
int purely an affair of their own.
great men Vishinsky said that the
other China Es
In they have section of the Royal Fieci Re- tion was one of method, rather
countries. I predict the present radical than substance. Since in substance serve, with liability to be called
will produce energency were in out for a limited period of service
its Chu
Churchill from the Foreign Ministers
when warlike operations are in
comparative agreement, he is prepared to ne-
progress outside
obscurity: at least, one of three the United Kingdom-Reuter. cept the agende proposed by M. preparation or
whose names have not figured in headlines of recent years. Schuman. He would accept the reference to Berlin currency, but
to stay I am decided myself he reserves the right to discuss the question of a currency for all
The Soviet delegation includes business of the Council of many faces new to observers who
have attended previous meetings Vishinsky's proposal to deal with Foreign Ministers
of the Foreign Ministers' Counen, Japan at all.
The Republican Guard in their He is, however, prepared to
question red and blue uniforms and red- Vishinsky's discuss M.
plumed steel helmets lined the at a later stage.
The British Foreign Secretary:
door and staircase as the Palace
grove Ernest Bevin. In agreeing Ministers Mr. with Mr. Acheson, said, that the Thousands of onlookers strolled alled Commonwealth powers-Austra- through the Avenue a few hun Ila, New Zealand, India, Pakistan, dred yards away, apparently dis- Ceylon and Canadin-are concerя- interested in the start of what ed with this question
ard alt
may be one of the most decisive have the right to participate in meetings of the Council of Foreign Ministern. Outside the main gate of the Palace, about 40 reporters and press photographers waited for the Ministers to arrive.
11s discussion.
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For his part, he is not an
discuss 11 at the pre- position to sent time or without fresh in- structions.
M. Vishinsky said that he does
his that
question not propose should be put on the agenda of They would, the Paris meeting.
well they he said, do very settle all the questions already listed, but 17 months had elapsed since the last Counell of Foreign Ministers, so it is appropriate to see what problems ahead for future meetings.
might le
Empire Claim
China, M. Vishinsky argued. has not taken part in the Coun- cll's discussion of the Italian or satellite treaties or the German and Austrian treaties because they are not of direct interest to her. But the Japanese treaty Beplying to Mr. Hevin's reter. ence to the Commonwealth clain to take part in the discussions, M. Vichinsky said that naturally these countries should take part a Japanese peace in preparing treaty, but not in the preliminary phase.
their
The Ministers, flanked by police motor cyclists, drove right up to the Police entrance, but advisers and experts. Including Mr. John Foster Dulles and Mr. Charles E. Bohlen, of the United Sutes delegation, got out at the. main gate and had to show their passes,
Agenda Agrood Unsmiling Mr. Acheson was the burst to arrive. He stepped briskly Into the Palace with his principal collengue, Dr. Philip Jessup.
Germany.
farence.
The Blockade
quen-
yours
(Fuklen). Republic this petent leadership
and
part
have developed The Bill will institute a special
retorted that In a four-power
Limes meeting, "three
as much pends on three us depends on one."
A
In Good Mood French Foreign
Ministry
M. Schuman raised the ques- tion of the unsatisfactory work- ing of the New York agreement for the lifting of the blockade at the beginning of the con-spokesman said the "atmosphere" was very favourable. "All the de- He said that the French Gov-legates were in a good mood," he
added. ernment considers there are cer- tain aspects of the New York ar- rangement which have not been working out to their satisfaction. He knows that the British and United States Governments feel the same.
The Foreign Ministers had con- ferred for nearly two and a half hours at the opening session.
Broader View Indeed, knowing the local In- habitant as well as I do, despite his faults, he is peace-loving, hard-working and a great scholar, And this may be the for him to gain
dence
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and a representative seat with put and face the future here in sufficient voice in whatever form Foochow come what roay. My
public
of government is to follow, and, father lald the roads about me as likely as not, he will welcome and during his long residence the views and co-operation of ever devoted himself to those foreigners who have spent service, and I am endeavouring a lifetime within the borders of my best to carry on where he the province,
left off, The future for this pro-
Taking the broader view,
1. vince is bright; it possessed
the
for one, do not for moment finest harbour on the Coast; it imagine that the country s possesses untold mineral wealth whole is turning-over completely and has never experienced Communistic in the sense we famine in its history. Thanks to are wont to apply to Western is undeveloped overland lines Europe for instance. To my mind of communications it has not
is rather a of the
Chinese been explolted, nor has suffered and Juke-boxes reform, from cabarets, form
to spoli its perhaps so forth
sons and
life and home
in It, therefore.
is cx-
The next meeting "Big Four" Ministers will be held at 2.30 p.m. GMT tomar-
Tow.
He said that he had not pro- posed to raise the question in the Council of Foreign Ministers to- When Mr. Bevin came out of day. He hoped that an agreement the Palace at the close of today's would be worked out by the au- session, a
reporter asked him: the spot. thorities on
If these "Did it go well?" Mr. Bevin re- difficulties continue, he said, theplied: "Very well," and got into Council might find it necessary to his car. consider them at the current ses- sion.
Mr. Bevin, with Mrs. Bevin, arrived four minutes later in a British Embassy car. Then camo M. Vishinsky, hie car flying a Russian Red flag with a golden hammer and sickle. M. Bchu- In the Palace before man was
other Ministers the other
arrived. After feverish activity by press photographers and newsreel men, the last journalist was ushered out of the conference room. the At one point there, was a good gilt doors were closed and the humoured clash between Mr. Br. first session of the inomentous vin ond M. Vishinsky,
VIA conference began.
Vishinsky
they must naturally na-
accepted
M.
anmcelins, sail that at such a
This phase would consist of a agenda proposed by the Westernsume that they were going to meeting of the Council of For-powers, including a discussion of reach agreement on each item at eign Ministers with the participa- the Austrian peace treaty. The the agentia, including the German tion of China.
Ministers agreed on a four-point question.
M. Robert Schuman, the French Foreign minister, from the chait. said that M. Vishinsky's question did not
to call appear
for specifle decision now. M. Vishin-
agenda proposed by M. Schuman. Mr. Bevin said: "A lot depends
It was decided that there would be regular press briefings after all the plenary sessions of the Conference.
M. Vishinsky came down from the conference room surrounded went by his delegation and straight to the delegation's office
inside the Palace. Through a spokesman. M. Vishinsky said the Soviet delegation "is not pes- simistic about the outcome of the
Al. Vishinsky proposed an agenda on you," to which M. Vishinsky cenference,”—Reuter.
of his own, but after discussion
agreed to the Schumon proposal,
The first item on the agenda,
sky agreed and the first session as finally agreed to by the Minis-
of the Parks meeting broke up
at 5.30 p.m. GMT after two and a half hours.
teras, was: "The problem of Ger- man unity, including economic and political principles nad Allied
The tour Foreign Ministers be- | controls.**
conteres. secret gan their
After M. Schuman had pro- viewed by observers as a momen-posed this agenda, M. Vishinsky tous one-o Germany at the submitted an alternative version heavily guarded Rose Marble Pa- as follows:
lace. Scores of uniformed and Russian Proposal plainclothes police were on duty 1-Four-power control of Ger- when the "Big Four" Ministers When assembled,
It is the first major attempt to try to solve the German prob-
many.
including the
2.-Economic unity of Germany,
conditions for realisation.
lem on a four-power basis since 3. Preparation of a
December, 1047.
Now Faces Parisians gathered outside the Palace in an acacia-lined avenue to see the the Foreign Ministers
Type BX 665 X ·
German
peace treaty.
4.-Germany, including Berlin and the currency question.
Mr. Acheson disagreed with M. Vishinsky's proposed to discuss
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