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Big Four
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to rehabilitation-of food, farms,
houses and a sound, sensible life
again." he said.
Cites Rise of Nationalism.
MIR. Bevin mentioned "tremen-
dous rise of nationalism, particular
ly in the East" and said it was best
that the older countries guide the
new nations into international CO.
operation.
Laughing aside an inquiry about
disposition of the atomic bomb, Mr.
Bevin said, THE further I get away
from it, the better I feel"
In pale green drawing room 81
floors above Manhattan, the United
States, Russia, Great Britain and
France will seek agreements on
treaty recommendations made at
the Paris Peace Conference for
Italy, Romania, Hungary, Bulgaria
and Finland.
The leading actors in this peace
drama will be Mr.. Byrnes, Soviet
Forcing Minister Molotov, Mr.. Bev-
in and Mr.. De Murville.
The signatures of only the big
-Four" are necessary to put the
treaties into effect once they are
finally and definitely written here
But before agreement is reached
a long, hard struggle between the
East and West is expected, for
three major problems left in dis
pute by the Paris peace authors
must be settled.
Issues of Dispute.
These issues of dispute are:
/. Trieste. The Big -Four agreed
at Paris that the Adriatic port be
internationalized under control of
the United Nations Security Coun-
Gil. But Yugoslavia, with Russian
backing wants to make the inter-
national control so weak that Tri-
este would, in fact. be under Bel
grades influence The Tito govern
ment has declared that if the pres
ent recommendation Is adopted it
will not sign the treaty with Italy.
2. The Danube. The United
States and Britain want this river,
which is still tight in Russia's grip,
opened to commerce. Clauses stip-
ulating freedom of navigation on
the Danube were written into the
treaties for Romania, Hungary and
Bulgaria. They were approved by
a two-thirds majority vote at Paris,
but Russia voted in opposition,
which is equivalent to veto, since
the Big Four must agree unani-
mously on all treaties.
3. Bulgaria's frontiers. Russia
and the five other Slavic states at
tempted at Paris to persuade the
delegates to award Bulgaria Greece S
Western Thrace province in the
Greek panhandle, along Turkeys S
border.
Reds Guard Bulgar Borders.
lThe conference commissions rec
commended that Bulgaria's frontiers
remain as they were January l,
1941, but the recommendation was
defeated in the plenary conference,
although no delegate voted against
it. BY the curious vote of 9 in IA
vor of the recommendation. none
against it and IL abstentions, the
measure failed to obtain a major
ity of those present and voting.
Mr.. Molotov assured the Bulgar-
ians at the close of the conference
that he would look after their from
tiers when the foreign ministers
met in New York, where only unan-
imous decisions are permitted.
If the Russians maintain their
threat to hold out for their point
of view in the Council of Foreign
Ministers, the final peace treaties
with the Axis satellites may not be
written for years.
The big question is whether Rus
sia will accept the decisions made
at Paris by a two-thirds majority.
Mr.. Byrnes repeatedly declared that
the United States would support any
conference recommendation which
got a two-thirds majority vote.
France and Britain have indicated
that they will take similar action.
Final Decisions Up to Big Four.
In fitting the Paris conference into