Evening star., 1946-09-26
By the Associated Press

full-dress session tonight of
the Peace Conference.
BY the Assoeioted Press
PARIS, Sept. 26.-Secretary of
State Byrnes raped a gavel
made of Utah copper tonight
and summoned the Peace Con-
ference into full-dress session in
an effort to facilitate the work
of drafting five peace treaties.
The secretariat general called the
session on a notice of less than five
hours, apparently because of dead
lock over the proposed agenda for
approving the treaty draft with Fin
land, first of the five, European peace
treaty drafts to be completed after
two months of conference.
The original agenda of the 81
nation secretariat called for a plen-
ary session tomorrow to discuss ap-
proval of the Finnish treaty text, but
the American, Russian, British and
French members were reported to
have pressed for convening the plen-
ary session as soon as possible.
Program Being Drafted.
The Foreign Ministers Council
program to speed the conference has
been drafted for presentation by the
foreign ministers deputies, an in
formed source said The major point
in this program would be a time
limit on speeches in commissions to
enable the conference to meet an
October Is deadline for completing
its deliberations.
In the Military Commission, mean
while, the delegates decided to order
Bulgaria to disband her armed forces
with the exception of a land army
including frontier troops in a total
strength of $1,000 men. The COM
mission adopted Articles 10 and IL
OF the Bulgarian treaty offering the
former Axis satellites armed forces
disbanded within six months from
the date the treaty become effective.
Bulgaria will be forbidden to train
any personnel not included in the
army of 5000, a navy of $500 and
an air force of $500 men.
Trieste Problem Remains.
In the Italian Economic Commits
sion delegates agreed on a principle
Of rs per cent refund on war damage
done to property owned by nationals
Of the United Nations, but the Brit
ish reserved the right to continue
to urge 100 per cent payment.
Other commissions now are in
the final stages of their work, but
the ticklish problem Of Trieste still
conffonts the conferees. The COM
mission studying Trieste still was
stalled, as it has been for weeks,
on questions of boundary lines and
gubernatorial powers.
The Military Commission unani-
mously adopted clause in the Bull
garian treaty prohibiting Bulgaria
from experimenting with atomic
energy. Guided missiles and self
propelled projectiles were included
in the prohibitions.
Six Articles Adopted.
The Italian Political and Terri
torial Commission adopted articles
21 through 26 of the Italian treaty,
dealing with establishment of peace
time relations with Albania. Article
81 was carried by single vote, 10 to
9. with one abstention. The article
states that ITALY recognizes and
undertakes to respect the sovereignty
and independence of the state of
Albania"
The Slav states insisted the
amendment be reworded to recog-
nize Albania as "an Allied and as
sociated power" France abstained
Greece reserved the right to press
her claims to Northern Epirus and
the island of Saseno.
The Italian Ambassador to the
United States, Alberto Tarchiani,
asked the commission to recognize
Improvements made in Albania and
Ethiopia during the Italian oc-
cupation periods, in such matters
as roads, schools and community
projects.
The commission has been unable
to reach any final agreement on
the boundaries for the information
allied port area of Trieste and
Yugoslavia has announced she will
accept none of the present boundary
proposals. All efforts to revise the
borders recommended by the Big
-Four were beaten down last week
Almost as hard fought was the
issue of what powers the governor
Of the new area should have.
In essence, the argument boiled
down to the question of whether
the governor should be governor
in the full sense of the word, or
simply powerless representative Of
the United Nations. The western
nations want him to have strong
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