The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-08-03
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many's war and merchant ships,
and left it to experts to work out
details. The Big Three promised
another joint statement on that IN
due course"
The Council of Foreign Minis
tiers will have it's headquarters IN
London and will hold its first meet
ing by Sept. l.
GAS its immediate important
task" the communique said, "the
Council shall be authorized to
draw UP, with a view to their sub
mission to the United Nations,
treaties of peace with Italy, Ru-
mania, Bulgaria, Hungary and
Finland, and to propose settle
ments of territorial questions out
standing on ne termination OF the
war in Europe.
''The council sahll be utilized for
the preparation of a peace settle
ment for Germany adequate for
the purpose is established
1.-The Council shall be utiliz
ed for the preparation of a peace
settlement for Germany to be &C
copied by the government Of Ger
many when a government ade
quate for the purpose is establish
ed
For each of these tasks, the
Council will be made up of mem
bers representing states signatory
to the surrender terms imposed or
the enemy involved.
That would mean, for instance
that China would have no part ii
the preparation of peace terms TO
Germany.
Establishment of the Five-Na
II Council, the Big Three decid
ed, does not preclude the periodic
consultations among their owl
three foreign min; sters as agreed
upon at the Yalta Conference las
spring.
The decision at Potsdam on tn
temporary Western frontier OF Pc
land will give that Nazi victim
long Baltic seacoast, including tn
area of the free city of Danzlg.
The new boundary would be al
most a straight Inc from the Bal
tic on the North, above the port Q
Stettin, to Dresden n a tn
Czechoslovak border. 1t passes les
than fifty miles from Berlin.
The communique disclosed tina
representatives of the Polish Pre-
visional government had been cal
ed to Potsdam for consultation o
, the territorial question.
Poland would take over the pro
vinces of Pomerana, Upper an
Lower Silesia with their major II
dustries, and more than half c
East Prussia. Russia would q
the rest of East Prussia, lncluc
ing Koenigsburg and the adjacer
territory.
These arrangements must be az
proved finally at the peace table
but the ultimate settlement is no
expected to differ materially.
Italy, the Big Three asserted
has freed herself from a Fascis
regime and is making good head
way toward reestablishing De
mocracy.
The conclusion of SUCH peac
treaty with a recognized demo
cratic Italian government,
Truman, Stain and Attlee sale
will make it possible for the thre
governments to fulfill their desir
to support an application from lta
ly for membership in the Unite
Nations"
The treaty trainers are to deter
mine the fate of former Italia
territories.
AS for Spain:
1.-The Three governments fee
bound, however, to make it clea
| that they for their part would nc
favor airy application for member
ship put forward by the preser
Spanish government. VIII oh. HAY
ing been founded with the supper
of the Axis powers, does not,
view of it's origins, its nature, il
record and its close associatio
with the aggressor states, posse
the qualificat ons necessary to ju!
tify such membership"
II Ip koonipo thumb on Gerrna