Evening star., 1946-10-06
Draft Of 5 treaties
For Nazi Satellites
Completed in Paris
BY tho A.,oeiatsd Pr...

PARIS, Oct. 5.-Fourteen tired
disheveled and unshaven delegates
cried "hurrah!" Today as the Bal.
kan Economic Commission ended q
28-hour session which completed the
preliminary drafting OF the five
peace treaties with the former satel-
lites Of Nazi Germany.
When Commission Chairman
Josef Korbel banged his gavel in
adjournment it meant that the COM
mission had completed its share o1
the writing of a reparations bill
which II approved will cost Italy
'Romania, Bulgaria. Hungary ano
Finland $l,350, 100000 for helping
Adolf Hitler set the world on fire.
Reparations claims against Italy
alone at one time totaled SIG, ,000,-
900 900.
Monday morning the delegates oil
the 81 nations to the European
peace conference will meet in
plenary session to begin the final
stage of treaty writing that is
scheduled to end on october Is
Then they will turn their treaty
recommendation over to the big
four foreign ministers, who will have
the final say.
Special Session Today.
A special plenary session will be
held tomorrow to consider rules
limiting debate and the schedule
laid down by the foreign ministers
council.
Oficial French sources said 1t
would be necessary to hold con-
tinuous 24-hour sessions in order to
adhere to the schedule and meet
the October Is deadline.
Soviet sources indicated they
would bring up tomorrow the matter
of non-belligerent states voting on
final ballots, foreshadowing a dis
pute on procedure even before the
session gets down to the matter of
treaties.
The Italian Political Commission
scene of frequent battles between the
Slav bloc and the western powers
concluded its work on a note OF
harmony.
Chairman Thanked.
When the commission approved
unanimously its final report Soviet
Delegate Andrei Vishinsky thanked
Chairman Lief Egeland of South
Africa for guiding "our ship across
the tempestuous sea of our discus
sions, to port which is perhaps not
the final one, but which is a step on
the way"
He said Mr.. Egeland had all of the
at virtues" and added that he was
confident the spirit of cooperation
shown in this commission will spread
to international relations in gen.
eral."
Visibly moved, Mr.. Egeland replied
with his thanks in the three ofIlcial
of the conference -
Thank you, Merci, Spasibo."
The Balkan Economic Commits
sion worked from 10 am. Friday
to 2:40 pm. today and en-
gagged in 16 hours and 80 minutes
of actual debate to complete the
allotment of reparations to be paid
by Finland and Bulgaria.
Reparations Listed.
This is how the reparations bill
finally stacked UP:
s Italy-s325, ,000.Oe0 to Russia, Yugo-
slavia, Greece and Ethiopia.
/. Romania-S3006 900, 900 to Russia
Yugoslavia and Czechoslovakia.
Bulgaria-$125 ,000, 900 to Greece
and Yugoslavia.
Hungary-$30o, ,000, 900 to Russia,
Yugoslavia and Czechoslovakia.
Finland-$300, 600 900 to Russia.
A total of $500, 900 900 goes to the
Soviet Union, $50. 900 600 to Czecfio-
$25, 10000 to. Ethiopia
$240, 900 900 to Yugoslayia and $l0O,-
100000 to Greece. In addition the
Foreign Ministers Council is to
divide the s125, 600 900 to be paid by
Bulgaria between Yugoslavia and
Greece.