Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1946-11-19
Concessions
Spur Progress Of
Big 4on Trieste
Ministers Appeer to
Be Due for Trouble
On Veto Restriction
BY the Associated Prsss

NEW YORK, Nov. 19.-Spurred
by Russian concessions, the
great power Foreign Ministers
scored major progress today in
breaking their long peace treaty
deadlock on control of Trieste.
But they evidently were headed
for trouble over proposals to re-
strict voluntarily the use of the
veto in the United Nations Security
Council.
A series of swift moving devel-
opments yesterday and last night
brought the brightest prospects yet
for early and final agreement on
the Italian and other former Ger
man satellite peace treaties, but
simultaneously dimmed the outlook
for any substantial agreements by
Russia on the veto issue.
Principal Developments.
The main developments were
these:
/. In a Big Four meeting last
night america, Britain, Russia and
France) Soviet Foreign Minister
Molotov finally yielded to Ameri-
can British insistence that the pro-
posed free territory of Trieste should
be under United Nations COVER
nor armed with strong powers to
protect its independence.
2. In an earlier Big Five meet
ing (the Big Four plus China MIR.
Moiotoy, after some objection.
agreed to consider proposals for
voluntarily restricting use of the
veto and to discuss them in future
Big Five meetings.
8. At Lake Success, Long Island, a
committee of the u. N. Assembly in
directly approved this procedure by
voting SO to 8 TO sidetrack its own
veto debate until the foreign minis
tiers had time to act. However, a
Soviet spokesman told the commit
tee his government was fatty op-
posed to any changes in the veto
system and objected to all Assembly
proposals aimed at modifying it.
4. Diplomatic authorities inter-
preted this as meaning that Mr..
Molotov probably would reject all
Big Five suggestions for voluntarily
restricting use of the veto, although
he might go along with some British,
American and Chinese recommen-
dations aimed not so much at the
veto as at speeding up the work of
the Security Council.
Meet Again Tomorrow.
The next meeting of the Big Four
on the Italian peace treaty and
Trieste is scheduled for 4 pm. to-
morrow.
Mr.. Molotov finally agreed last
night that the governor should
have power to hire and fire the
director of security-or police chief
in Trieste and that the director
IN turn would have complete au-
thority over the police force.
The Soviet Minister also agreed
that the governor would have
authority to suspend decisions of
the Council Of Government and to
take emergency measures to pre-
serve Trieste's independence.
Part Of Text Rewritten.
Other Molotov concessions were in
line with these, and authorities
familiar with the work of the
Foreign Ministers Council expressed
confidence that when the text of
the Trieste statute was put in final
form full agreement between Russia
and the western powers would be
virtually automatic.
The foreign ministers probably
will delay discussion of Germany at
the meeting here in order to try to
complete the satellite peace treaties
without delay, some diplomats re-
ported.
Secretary of State Byrnes, prin-
cipal proponent of starting German
talks at the Councils New York
meeting, was reported pleased with
progress on the italian peace treaty
and to feel that the best procedure
now is to push ahead for completion
of that document and also the
treaties for the Balkan States and
Finland.
The German discussion had been
tentatively and informally set to
begin tomorrow.