Evening star., 1947-04-01
Big 4 Ministers
.DeadIocked in
Bitter Session
3-Hour Talks Bring
No Decision; Marshall
Moy Seek StoIin Tolk
By the Associated Press

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MOSCOW, April 1.-The For.
eign Ministers debated German
reparations and the level of in.
dustry for more than three hour.
today without reaching a deci.
sion.
A report from the meeting sait
the discussions were "often blum
and bitter" and Secretary of Stat,
Marshall, 1t was reported, may nov
seek a direct meeting with Prim,
Minister Stain.
This was to have been q show
down meeting expected to indicat,
possibilities of a German settle
ment of current problems at Mos
COW. The fact that no decision wa!
reached was considered by som,
diplomats as possibly indicating littl,
or no progress toward breaking tn,
deadlock.
An agreed-on statement said
The discussion today was limitee
to the subject of level of industry
and reparations and no decision
was reached. 1t was agreed to re.
turn to formal sessions tomorrow.
Gen. Marshall was authoritatively
reported to have gone into the meet.
ing today determined to And out
whether Russia would negotiate fol
a generally acceptable arrangement
on her reparations demands o,
whether her demands were entirely
firm as presented.
Each Takes Three Aides.
= In the absence of indications from
Russia's Foreign Minister Molotov
that a compromise could be ar
ranged, Gen. Marshall was said to
have decided prior to the meeting
to urge that the, Council proceed
with other questions iecause In hia
view the stalemate on. major Ger
man economic problems would tfien
be unbreakable.
The secrecy which surrounded
today's rleeting-each of the min.
listers took only three aides-rnads
it impossible to tell irnrnediatel,
whether any progress had beer
made in the direction Gen. Marshal
hoped.
If there was any such progress
it will almost certainly becorn,
apparent to tomorrow's forma
meeting, which will be fully reported
by the attending officials.
If there were no such progres,
then it was considered highly prob.
able. by persons familiar with Gen
Marshall's plans, that the Secretary
would seek a meeting with Prime
Minister Stain in the immediate
future to discuss the German
question.
Russia Seeks $10,o0o, 900 900.
Russia has demanded $4,000, 900,
900 in repa rations from Germany
over a 20-year-period, some of il
from current production.
Responsible informants said that
what Gen. Marshall wanted, for one
was to smoke out" the real Soviet
position: Is the demand for SIC, ,000,-
000, 900 In reparations the rockbot-
tom Russian figure, or will they take
less?
Gen. Marshall's bristling speech
last night, in which he rejected any
idea of a Soviet ultimatrm on repa-
rations and said the United States
would rather leave Moscow with no
agreements than with unsatisfactory
ones, marked the start Of his smok-
ing out campaign.
Gen. Marshall was said to want to
make 1t plain that he Is not trying
to end the conference. But after
three and one-half weeks on the
first of seven items he wants to get
on with the work. If nothing can
be accomplished on current German
he will press to take up
such issues as German boundaries,
former Secretary of State Byrnes
40-year treaty and the like.
Vishinsky Accuses Allies.
Meanwhile, in a meeting OF ths
deputies on Germany on repara.
tions, Soviet Deputy Foreign Min.
lister Andrei Y. Vishinsky accused
the Allies of not carrying out
agreed-upon reparation policies. HI
to create under the depu'
ties small committee to go into
the question and report back to the
deputies and the Foreign Ministers
(See MOSCOW, Page A-6.)