Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1946-05-17
Byrnes Flying Home,
Confident Of Success
In Next Big a Session
BY the Associated Press

BY the Associated Press
PARIS, May 17.-Secretary of
State Byrnes and a party of Is
other persons, including Sena-
, tors Connally, Democrat, of
Texas and Vandenburg. Repub-
: lican, Of Michigan left Orly Field
today for Washington after the
deadlocked Foreign Ministers
Conference had adjourned until
June Is.
They flew in the Caravan Cres-
cent, which took off at 11:12 am.
, (5:12 am, EST.
b Before departing, Mr.. Byrnes ex-
pressed the conviction that, despite
the failure of the current confer
ence to draft any major treaties,
the outstanding differences between
Russia and the western powers
would be settled at the next meet
ing. Similar views had been ex-
pressed by British Foreign Secre-
. tary Bevin, who left for Britain
shortly before noon.
Russian Foreign Minister Molotov
left LIE Bourget Field for Berlin
at 6 am.
James Dunn, Assistant Secretary
OF State, remained in Paris to work
with deputies of the other three
powers in preparation for the June
Is conference.
Pierre Schneider, French Foreign
Office undersecretary, and jefferson
Gallery, American Ambassador to
Paris, saw the Byrnes party off.
w. Averell Hartman, United
States Ambassador to London, also
was at the airfleld, but he said his
visit to Paris was not official
American sources said Mr.. Byrnes'
attitude on the next conference was
based on progress made on such
questions as Italian reparations,
colonies and Balkan frontiers. They
said these advances should assure
the calling of a 21-nation peace
conference, even if the next meeting
of foreign ministers should adjourn
without total agreement on peace
treaties.
American officials said the city of
Trieste, key to the Italian peace
treaty, had become symbol of
whether the next conference would
succeed or fail
At the conference just terminated,
the United States insisted that |
Trieste remain Italian; the Russians
were just as irsistent that the i'm
portant Adriatic port be coded to
Yugoslavia. Britain and France,
which originally supported the
United States, were reported willing
to compromise by declaring Trieste |
an international city
The American informants said
that previous experience with Rus
STA lead them to hope that by next
month Moscow would be willing to
yield or compromise.
Britain and the United States are
expected to try through diplomatic
channels to swing Russia around ON
the Trieste question, as well as on
other deadlocked matters, such as
consideration of peace treaties in
general and an agreement for Ger
many.
Opposition to Pact Puzzling.
American authorities still were
puzzled over Mr.. Molotov's opposi-
ton to Mr. Byrnes' proposal for a
four-poWer mutual assistance pact
to supervise German disarmament
for at least Is years. Prime Min
lister Stain was reported to have
told MIR. Byrnes in Moscow last De-
cember that he favored such a pact.
The State Department can be ex-
pected to ask, through the American
Embassy in Moscow, for an ex-
PLANTATION of this apparent. change
in the Russian position.
Just before adjournment yester-
day, the ministers initiated a re-
vised armistice for Italy. This will
liberalize control over Italy and aid
her reconstruction. Terms of the
document will not be announced
until they are approved by the SUI
preme Allied commander in Italy,
but an American informant said the
armistice was believed to abolish
the Allied Control Council.
Officials of the American delega-
ton pointed to these four accom-
plishments of the conference:
l. An exhaustive and complete
exchange of views has taken place
and each of the ministers knows
now just how the others stand.
2. The Italian armistice has been
Gberalized.
3. Contact between Russia and
the Western Allies has been main
tanned, through the scheduling of
the next conference June Is.
4. Agreements have been reached
on a number of minor matters
which will facilitate the drafting of