The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-09-07
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 The kind of peace the world Is going to have will begin to take shape at the meeting of the Council of Foreign Ministers. due to start In London next Monday.
 The principles of the Potsdam declaration will be put into efSect- 1t is hoped-and the ability of the five dominant powers to agree in. detail on the lofty generalities pre- viously expressed will be given it's flrgt test.
 Big 5
 It is strictly a big i've proposi- ton The foreign ministers of Great Britain, the United States, Russia, France and China have been charged with heavy responsibility of deciding the shape of the post- war world. Other powers will be called in when their interests are directly affected. The councils task is admittedly preparatory work for the peace settlements" but the de- cisions reached will be as good as final, subject only, in some cases, to parliamentary ratification.
 It will be a long conference" lasting perhaps for several years. The foreign ministers themselves are not expected to be in session for more than six weeks at the out side during this first meeting, but their authorized deputies will carry on continuously for as long as there is need. Subsequent meetings of the top men will be held when conclu- sivO action of interest to all is required.
 Indications are that some trou- bled and even heated sessions are in prospect, for there are many con- flicting ambitions and claims to be settled. Certainly there will have to be 8 great deal of compromise and give-and-tak If the princi- ples avowed at Tehran, Yalta, Pots dam, Dumbarton Oaks and San Francisco mean anything at all, a reasonably just and enduring peace may be expected to result.
 Balkans, Etc.
 The first task of the council will be to prepare, for submission to the United Nations, peace treaties with Italy, Rumania, Bulgaria, Hungary and Finland, and to draft territorial settlements in Europe.
 Peace with Italy is No. 1 on the agenda and may not prove simple, since all five powers must be in com-' plete agreement. France and China are not expected to raise any grave issues, but it is not certain that Moscow sees eye to eye with Bri- tain and the United States.
 The latter two powers are under stood to favor lenient peace with Italy, being above all anxious to re- store that country economically and politically as a balancing force in the eastern Mediterranean. Rus sia may want separations from Italy, chiefly on the ground that Italian forces took part in the invasion of the Soviet Union. Britain and the United States seem to feel that far from reparations, Italy needs urgent financial relief, such as the $450,- 100000 proposed by Herbert s. Leh- man, head of the United Nations relief and rehabilitation administra- ton.
 Russian Influence
 However, Russia joined in the three.power Potsdam declaration noting that Italy was the first of the Axis powers to break with Ger many, made a material contribution to dermanys defeat, joined in the war against Japan and had gotten rid of Fascism, thereby earning spe- clal consideration. Russia therefore may not make too great an issue of separations.
 More important is the kind of "democratis" government Italy Is to establish. That links up with the problem of the governments iD other eastern European countries. Britain, supported ln general by the United States, Is anxious 10 preserve Q political balance against complete Soviet domtnatiln of that ares,
 So, along with Italy, the question Of tFeatlAs with Bulgaria, Romania and Hungary must be taken up. brk tain and the United states have res fused to recognize the governments there, in opposltlin to RnasIs sups Other immediate problems Include Yusaslavia, which ls more ln the Russian orbit than Britain likssI lnFhulent Greece anl the dTeeks kuseslav border clAshssI Trieste and 
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