Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1946-06-16
Agrees
To Farley Study
Of Austrian Pact
Wants ItuIy Watched;
Russian Action
Arouses Optimism
BY the Assoeiotsd Pres.

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eign Minister v. M. Nolotov
agreed today to add Austria to
the Foreign Ministers Confer
ence agenda, then insisted than
the Italian political situation be
watched to prevent a regrowth
OF Fascism into full scale civil
war, American and British in
formants said.
In sudden and surprising con-
cession as the Ministers reopened
their discussion on peace treaties
with former enemy states, Mr.. Molo-
tov reversed Soviet policy as ex-
pressed throughout sessions last
month and consented to study Aus
tria as "a problem"
Mr.. Molotov objected to combining
the Austrian question to the Ameri-
can-sponsored draft treaty which
Washington had circulated among
the other powers-France, Russia
and Britain.
Cites Moscow Declaration.
He maintained that recent events
in Italy reflected an attempt by
monarchists and Fascists to over
throw the republic, and cited the
declaration of Moscow in 1943 to
justify Allied Intervention in Italian
affairs to prevent a rebirth of
Fascism, American informants said.
In l943 the Foreign Ministers of
Britain, the United States and Rus
STA issued declaration on Italy say
ing that Fascism must be destroyed
and the Italians given an oppor-
tunity to have representative gov
eminent.
The Soviet foreign minister asked
the council to add the Italian stu
alton to the agenda as a preliminary
to Intervention If events justified
such a course.
Secretary of State Byrnes replied
that the United States had no OBJ
lection If events really justified such
action, but added that official in
formation available to the United
States showed that the Italian gov
eminent now had the situation in
hand and was successfully uphold
ing the republic, American sources
said.
Agrees With French.
The suggestion to place Austria
on the agenda as a simple problem
was made by the French, and Mr..
Molotov concurred. Austria was
placed on the agenda for discussion
after consideration of peace treaties
with Italy, Bulgaria, Romania and
Hungary. and a study of the Ger
man problem. The italian political
problem will follow Austria.
The ministers met for two and
half hours in their initial session,
then adjourned until Monday.
Mr.. Byrnes, author of the Ameri-
can proposals in Austria, suggested,
as in the first half of the session,
that Austria be included within the
scope of the conference.
limiting that he expected this SEES
sion to be long and arduous, Mr..
Molotov remarked that the council
had many things to discuss which
would take a lot of time.
Reds Sought Delay.
He said the Russians preferred to
wait until later in the session to see
If the powers could agree on treaties.
then take up Austria if there was
sufncient time remaining, the
informant said.
British Foreign Secretary Ernest
Bevin then said the conference
should decide today on inclusion of
Austria in order to remove all DOS
sible doubts and Observation-Disclosures
later as to whether Austria could be
The French suggestion for con-
slderation of the Austrian problem
was finally accepted.
Mr.. Molotov's concession on Aus
tria, W. 'ch the United States views
as the key to a settlement in Central
Europe, injected an upsurge of
optimism in conference circles.
The American informant said that
At one point Mr.. Molotov suggested
that the conference ask the italian
governments opinion on economic
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