The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-11-02

delivered thelr QemarcneS 10 dle United States. Great Britain, Soviet Russia and France two days before the Council of Foreign Ministers convenes Monday at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel The Big Four meets to try to write final treaties for Hitler's satellites and then begin preliminary discussions on Ger many.
 Secretary of State James F. Byrnes and British Foreign Secre- tary Ernest Bevin arrive here today.
 Deputies Arriving, Too
 Bevin is aboard the s. s. Aqu~ tania, scheduled to dock late today, along with the Big Four deputies who have been working on the draft satellite treaties mad the suggested amendments ever since the Paris peace conference ndd Oct. IS.
 Byrnes will fly here from Wash ington late today to confer with his deputy, James Clement Dunn, and probably to have advance talks with Bevin and Soviet Foreign Minister V. M. Molotov.
 Molotov has been here since the opening of the United Nations As- sembly.
 The fourth member of the Big Four-French Premier Georges Bi- dault-will not be here for the open ing of the Big Four talks. He will be represented by his assistant in the Quai D'Orsay, Couve De Mur- vile, until after the French elecS tionS Nov. 10.
 To Be Here Nov. 20th
 But Bidault will be here in time for the subject in which he has greatest interest - Germany. The Big Four will not begin to talk about that No. l problem until about Nov. 20th.
 The Dutch Belgian Luxembourg challenge of Big Four domination of the treaty with Germany came as 8 surprise late yesterday in Washing ton when the diplomatic represen- tativeS of those countries personally handed their joint note to Under secretary of State Dean Acheson.
 Dr. Alexander London, Nether- lands ambassador, issued a three nation statement announcing that the three nations were demanding a hand in decisions on Germany's future frontiers as well as her future political-economic status.
 Loudon explained he and his col- leagues were seeking quick action because the Big Four meeting here was imminent and that Germany's three small western neighbors wanted hand in preventing a re- currence of German aggression from the start.
 Internal Debate Not Clear
 London said nothing about the internal debate in the Netherlands over territorial demands against Germany. The Dutch Parliament has been debating the subject in secret. The issue is not over whether to ask for border rectification. There is general Dutch agreement on that. But there are broad dif- ferences over how much to ask for-whether to limit it to straight ening" the frontier which would take into Holland less than l00,- 900 Germans or to take much more and create a German minrity of several hundred thousands.
 There was no immediate Big Four reaction to the Dutch-Bel- gian-Luxembourg charge. But there appeared to be confidence that the one certainty was that the Belgian Dutch-LuXembourg demand would be countered with similar demands from Germany's smaller eastern neighbors Poland and Czecho- slovakia, possibly Yugoslayia be- cause of her frontier with Austria. and also Denmark because of Schleswig- Holstein.
 Sometime before November is over the four will discuss Germany and Byrnes has served notice that the first thing he will seek will be Big Four agreement on Germany's future frontiers.
 In addition to the western from tiers, involving such critical issues as the Ruhr and Saar and the three small nation demands for bor- der rectification, there is the Amer ican-Russian dispute over Poiands frontier with Germany. Byrnes says it is not final as set at Potsdam; Molotov says it is.
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