The Wilmington morning star., 1947-04-18
AUSTRIAN PEACE
PACT HOPES FADE
British Order Train For
Tuesday AS Big Four
Meeting Stands Still

MOSCOW, April IL -Pe
Chances for salvaging an Austrian
peace treaty from the deadlocked
Moscow conference faded tonight
and some German experts among
the delegations prepared to leave
for Berlin apparently abandoning
hope of further progress On a Ger
man pact.
Gin London a Foreign office
spokesman said a special train
will be ready in Moscow on Tues
day to return Foreign Secre.
tary Ernest Bevin and the British
delegation. He said that while
there were no definite plans tc
leave then the train would be
ready "if there appeais to be nc
good reason to stay longer.D
Despite this statement yester-
day on the desire to sign an Aus
trian peace pact the Russians
clashed tonight with the three
Western powers over the first ma
jor issue the ministers encounter.
ed in considering the Austrian
pact-the problem of handling ap-
proximately 100000 displaced per-
SON il Austria.
Demand Expulsion
Russia demanded that displaced
persons be expelled from Austria
within six months after the treaty
becomes effective. U. S. Secretary
of State Marshall charged that
this amounted to failure by the
Russians to live up to a United
Nations agreement on displaced
persons.
Marshall urged that the hand :
ling Of displaced persons should
be in accord with the action Of the
United Nations assembly last De-
cember approving a draft constitu-
ton for the International Refugee
organization.
Under the 1RO. which was op-
posed by the Soviet Union, dis .
placed persons would become the
concern of that body if they could
shcw they would face religious or
political persecution if they re-
turned to their former living
places.
Andrea Vishinsky, deputy Soviet
foreign minister argued that the
United Nations resolution applied
only to Germany, and not to Aus
tria.
Veto Effect
Marshall replied that in effect
the Russian stand was a use Of
the veto on a U. N. Assembly
decision. Vishinsky denied that
anv veto was involved.
There was no agreement at to-
days session on any o. the con-
t~roversial Austrian issue, such as
the French demand that rigid re-
~strictions be clamped on future
Austrian manufacturing pro-
cesses. Formal approval was
placed on a number Of clauses al
ready approved by the deputies,
including limiting Of the Austrian
army to IS, 900 officers and men.
A large number OF the French
delegation prepared to leave this
weekend for their regular posts In
Berlin. They were mostly experts
on the German problem. Some
American members also have left
Moscow, although the key men
were being held here by Marshall.
While the British delegation has
ordered a train for Tuesday. this
was not taken here as a sure In
dication the session would end by
then. The British also had ordered
a train two weeks ago Saturday
but cancelled it. They ordered al
other train for last Saturday but
also cancelled that.
Reports that Marshall contem =
plated a second meeting with
Prime Minister Stain could not
be confirmed by official or au :
thoritative sources, who viewed
such a meeting as extremely I'M
likely. .
Tomorrow the council will meet
at II am. g am. EST TO hear
the views Of Austrian Foreign
Minister Karl Gruber and again at
q p.m. to take up the key issue
Of defining German assets IN
Austria and to consider Yugoslav
claims for r%eparations.