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BIG FOUR SECRET SESSION
Paris Juno 12.
The conference of the "Big Four" Foreign Ministers tonight wont
into secret session for what observers boliove is a open real discussion on a plan for a settlement of the differ- ences over Berlin.
move to re-
The official explanation for tonight's secret session, which began after four
and a quarter hours' open discussion, is that the Ministers are discussing the procedure for the next meeting.
But conference observers are increasingly convinced that behind the incon- clusive surface of today's open session, moves are afoot to achieve a live settlement in Berlin.
STRIKERS URGED TO RETURN
of
Berlin, June 12. The Western Lord Mayor Berlin, Erna Reuter, today urged the railway strikers to accept the proposed terms of settlement and end the strike.
Acceptance at compromise set tlement terms has also been urged by the Weslern Allied Commun. danty.
At a meeting here today strikers' delegates passed a resolution ask- ing the Western Allies for these guarantees:
(1) West sector railwaymen shall in future be employed only on West sector sta- tions and trains.
the strike shall
American
At their secret session the For-, agreeing to the withdrawal eign Ministers were altended by occupation troops. only one adviser rach and On authoritative
source described the session as the most restricted of the conference,
British Policy
For Britain, Mr. Devin made La statement on British policy on
THE CHINA MAIL, TUESDAY, JUNE 14, 1949.
ARGYLLS ON THE WAY
Southampton, June 12 Fifteen hundred troops of the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders walled today to reinforce the garrison a Hong Kong,
They were on board the 14,000-ton transport Empire Trooper. its unlling was de tayed two days by boller trouble-Associated Press.
BLOCKADE WON'T BE RE-IMPOSED
No Agreement In Blockade Talks
Berlin, Juno 12.
Four-power efforts to lift the Berlin blockade
completely failed when no agreement reached today.
Wos
Western officials blame the failure to agree 'on
Soviet insistence on retaining complete control over transport between Berlin and Western Ger-
many.
British, French, American and Sovlet transport and economic | experts_ mot in a fruitless attempt to implement orders of the Bis Four Foreign Ministers to un- snarl the city's transport and trado situation, In a severni-hour meeting no agreement was reach- ed.
Still another meeting, however, has been fixed for tomorrow In Berlin, June 12. an effort to meet the Monday Major-General George Hays, deadline set by the Paris con- United States Deputy Militaryference for agreement. Governor in Germany, told al
re-
Hungarian Attack On "Deviation"
Budapest, June 12. The Hungarian Workers' Party's organ
"Szabad Lep" said today: "Trotskyite devia- tion from Marxian-Leninism" inevitably leads to treason and
enemies."
press conference here today Western Berlin's 15,000 striking of that even if the 'Council of railway workers will vote in even espionage on behalf of
Foreign Ministers fails to reach referendum on Tuesday on the four-point compromise proposal ngreement in Paris, he doubts drawn up by the Western powers
The article, entitled "Trotakyism that the blockade will be
and Russia for aettlement of the perialist Penetration", coincided imposed.
strike that has halted overhead with heightened speculation over "I doubt if the Soviets will re- railway traffic in the Western the withdrawal from political Impose the blockade as such," sectors as well
all
freight life
of Laszlo Rajk, former he said, "although they may add traffle between Berlin and the Foreign Minister and Minister of certain restrictions
the Interior, and a number that wouldWest.
of throttle the flow of goods.
ather Communist officials close to him.
The Soviet spokesman declared the withdrawal of troops. that no decision had been reached on the call made by Mr. Andrei He declared that a withdrawal Vishinsky, the Soviet Foreign from Germany can not be con- Minister, for the drafting of a sidered until it is absolutely cure German peace treaty which would that security safeguards Bre provide for the withdrawal
of satisfied. all occupation troops one after its signature,
Bak
year
A United States delegation spokesman secret session is the Ministers will discuss at their open
which was sossion for tomorrow but which have now
agreed to hold Tuesday,
Contrary to the assumption that Mr. Vyshinsky had rands he had not accepted the Soviet proposals
that tonight's on the preparation of a German to decide what peace treaty, Mr. Bevin added.
fixed The following is a fuller ver- they alon of what Mr. Bevin sald:
The secret session was held in e private office, in the Rose Palace, of M. Robert Schuman, French Foreign Minister.
Tonight's
surprise develop
(2) East sector and zone rall-ments follow a series of informat
waymen who took part in private talks between
all the also be Forelyn Ministers, including Mr. employed solely in the Vyshinsky. within the Just 24 West sectors.
hours.
(3) All arrested strikers should ..... be released immediately.
(4) All dismissed UGO Union members should be rein- stated.
(5) A special West sector rail- way police corps should be formed and Sovici-con-1 trolled railway police be banned from the West- ern nectors-Reuter,
Seventh Marriage At 89
newest
hus-
band, Isanc, is 35 and he has been married three times. They both
The Soviet Foreign Miniator's dinner with the U.B. Secretary of State, Mr. Dean Acheson, fast night is authoritatively ra posted to have been consider. ably more than a purely social ocension,
Vyshinsky Plan Propaganda
"I want to make the Doited Kingdom delegation's position quite clear. We are not ready to commit ourselves to any time or period for
the withdrawoł
troops,
of
"Like the rest of us altting at this table we have had two wars with Germany. We want to know what sort of Germany it is going to be, what sort of methods there will be for keep ing order, what sort of stops to prevent any dictatorship.
Security Of Europe
"It is not a question of Ger- many pure and simple which is involved, but the security of Europe. What we are willing to do is to consider the problem in the light of the evolution of matters in Germany and of the of the developments
Mr. Ernest Bevin, British For-progress eign Secretary, dropped in on made in Germany.
Д
much
repre-
Six hundred delegates, "In any event," he added, "wesenting the strikers. in a heated will be left in
better four and a half hour session to position than before the Ifting day rejected the proposal but of the blockade.
agreed to place the issue before the strikers themselves.
"If the trade talks now going on here do not succeed, trade
He thinks
that the was liftert because it was
will go on without a trade agree-
Leadors Jeorod ment. I would say that we will be Batistled 50 Jang as com- Delegates of the trade munications and access to Berlin UGO jeered top union continue."
who asked them to heed Western Allied request to accept blockade a compromise offer and get no traffle moving immediately. The compromise offered workers 75 per cent of their wages in We tern marks and no retaliation by the Savict-controlled railway management against the strikers the anti-Communist or against Unfor.
longer serving any useful purpose and that it is in the Interest of the Soviet zone economy to end
L
"This is borne out by the fact that the quantity of goods going into the Soviet zone is not now as great as we thought it would be. The Soviets were estimated to have accumulated 200,000,000 West marks with which it was expected they would make large- scale purchases in Western Ger- many,
"It now looks as if they not have nearly that amount."
Nationalism; Instruments of Ima
D
portant to determine at what mo
The article said it is not im- ment Trotsky and his group re- deviation and when they became presented only "bourgeoiso active agents of imperialism, or until when Tilo was only a fac- tionist and when he went over to the Imperialist Front."
Because any deviation from the union leaders Party's lines Inevitably leads to the treason, the paper warned against
vinism, all expressions of national Chau- the "main source of strength for Trotskyite agents".
The article said that because of 25 years of Horthy rule it is inevitable that some remnants of national Chauvinism still exist in Hungary, but that these have to be eliminated-Reuter
Delegates demanded Bovlet guarantees that these promines would be carried out.
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General Hays Bald that the immediate problem is the West Berlin railway strike. He sup. ported the proposals made by transport chief, said: "Today we General Frank Howley, United had the same old disagreements States, on behalf of the three and nothing was settled." Weatern Mr. Acheson at the U.S. Embassy
Commandants, which carller today and was presumably
would guarantee the strikers 75 "When the time arrives for a
per uld of the results of Mr. Ache- United Germany which is cap-j
cont payment
West In marks. son's talk with Mr. Vyshinsky Instable of accepting a peace treaty He said that night.
each day 1,000 we should then know what the
of forces for the
supplies are coming into maintenance
of Derlia by barge, 2,500 by road be. We and 7,000 by airlift.
Lons
Mr. Acheson then walked over order in Germany
will to the French Foreign Office and can then sit down with our hot a talk with M. Schuman, three colleagues and carefully a completing the informal
x-consider a date on which it would changes between the Foreign be safe for us to withdraw troops Ministers.
from Germany.
Harlan, Kentucky, June 12. Seven times a bride, Mrs. Lucy Jane Johnson, aged 86, looked at spectators outside County Judgo W. J. R. Howard's chambers where she was married this
At the open session this after- week-end
"I want to make this categorie and asked: "Why should I not noon the Ministers ended their statement because I do not want get married if I
discussions on the preparation of to get into spheres of propaganda, want to?" Mrs. Johnson's
a new German peace treaty, item I am not going to play up to the three on the agendu.
Germans on this matter.
"I want to make a categoric reside at Mulen near the Bell- Mr. Vyshinsky replied to cri- statement of what Britain's op- harlon County line. He listed his ticisms made by the three Wes-proach is and I think I ought to occupation as a labourer.
on his proposal make it now and put it on re- which he submitted on Friday, cord."-Reuter.
Mr. Acheson argued that the Preparation of a German treaty and the unilention of Germany must proceed hand-in-hand.
Court records show that. Mrs. Johnson's sixth husband, the late John Blevins, was 95 at the time of their marriage in September, 1945.
Records do not show whether Mrs. Johnson was widowed divorced from her previous hus- bands.-Associated Press.
London, June 12.
or
tern Ministers
agree on steps to unify Germany, In the light of the failure to he regarded Mr. Vyshinsky's pro posals for a treaty as propaganda.
Field Marshal Sir William Silm, M. Schuman spoke briefly to Chief of Imperial General Staff, repeat the main point of his, Low to Bucckeberg today to begin speech last Friday-that the Al- a visit to British occupation troops lies must know what sort of Ger-
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HUNGER STRIKE THREAT
Brussels, June 12. zen of the World", has threatened Garry Davis, self-styled "Ciui-
to go on a hunger strike if he is prevented from entering Belgium from France next week because he has no passpart.
The 27-year-old Arst "World Citizen" who gave up his Ameri- can passport Inst year, wants to allend the Arst "Plot Election" for o World Government. The election is to be hold at Nivelles, Southern Belgium,
Announcing Davis' decision to try to enter. Belgium, the Belgian branch of the World Federalist 'Union and the Belgian "Friends of Gorry Davis" Committee said that the "Pilot Election" will be held to sound people's feelings about the federalist plan for one World Government.
Buch elections will be held 'in most European countries, the on- nouncement said
During the election period "fy- | Ing umbassadors", including the federallat Chairman, Lord Boyd- Om, the Indian Health Minister, Anrit Kauer, and the French Dim star Francoise Rosay, will tour by air the towns where the test polls will be made,Reuter.
RUSSIAN SLAP
AT FINLAND
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Meccow, June 12.. The official Soviet news agency
·Tasa reported from Helsinki to clay that woveral violations of the principles of democracy have
been committed:in Finland under the wing of the Karl · Fagerolem Government.-
"We are continuing to build up reserve," he said. "but it is not yet the reserve it would be if rail truffle from Western Ger- many had not been halted.
Russian Whims
last night, one day after his re- lease from internment. of a stroke. Hore Konrad Goebbels, former of Nazi publishing organisa- tions in the Rhine-Main area, had been classified as a Nazi activist and was sentenced to three years in a labour camp by a Denazifica- tion Tribunal,
Officials declare that the Rus stans insisted on the right to let
He had been under arrest since freight trains into Berlin when they wish. The Western delegates 1946 and was released on Friday. call this a violation of the block-Router. ade-iting agreement as before March 1, 1918.
Mr. Cantrell said the new So- The President Fillmore salled viet method means that Berlin for Manila on June 11-Associat- "I do not think that industry traffe is subject to the whims of ed Press. in Western Berlin s
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ALEXANDER OFF
Colombo, June 12, Mr. A. V. Alexander, British Defence Minister, left here for Britain today after being held up for 24 hours by engine trouble in his special plane.
Mr.
Alexander, who visited Hong Kong, arrived here on Fri- day.Reuter.
Another point al Issue is the Soviet requirement that Western freight trains be hauled by So- vlet Zone locomotives driven by Eastern German engineers.
In addition, the Western powers assert, they have the right to run at least 20 trains to Berlin daily, but the Russians have set the maximum at 10.--- United Press.
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