The Daily Alaska empire., 1948-08-09

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American, British ana FTencn diplomats went to the Kremlin to- day in a renewed attempt to solve the Berlin blockade and other issues in the cold war. It was their third visit there in a week.
 Ambassadors Walter Bedell Smith of the U. s. and Yves Chataigneau of France and special envoy Frank Roberts made the call, seeking to see Foreign Minister Molotov. Wash ington, Moscow, London and Paris all kept the strictest silence on the high level exchanges of diplomacy whidh might break the east-west impasse.
 Premier Paul-Henri Spaak of Bel gium received from British Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin a detailed account of the Moscow exchanges, it was reported in London. British informants said The ball, at the moment, is with the Russians Mol otov at the last meeting Friday night was reported to have been asked for aiis suggestions for making re- lations normal
 The British source said the Rus sians in the current exchanges have said blunt things about the plan of the Western Powers to establish a west German Government.
 Storms In Britain
 Weekend storms in Britain and France left at least p persons dead. Ships were lost, harbors battered and crops flattened.
 An American and British obser- yer for the United Nations were wounded in Greece by guerrilla (CommunisD mortar fire near the juncture of the Greek, Bulgarian and Yugoslay borders. Greek sources said the fire came from inside Con- munist Bulgaria. In North Greece near Albania, the Greek Army com pressed even further the pocket of Communist leader Markos Vafia- des' troops.
 Russian Qualifications
 The Berlin. newspaper Telegraf reported today the Russians are building trenches and installing weapons on the border of their zone of Germany.
 The British-licensed paper said Germans were being pressed into service and then warned not to talk. Watch towers, fencing and road barricades were reported being placed. The Russians held large scale Army maneuvers last month in Eastern Germany .and increased their Air Force there, just as the United States did in the west.
 Despite these manifestations. nothing suggested the Soviets were preparing for war. Indeed the signs pointed the other way.
 The official Russian newspaper in Berlin threatened worse condi- tions in the blockaded city unless it's anti Communist government ac- ceded to Russian demands that all the city come under Red Control. Pravda in Moscow printed promi- nently an assertion that U. s. and British planes had violated air rules in the corridors to Berlin 62 times. Commenting on Tass dispatch that supply planes could be forced down for flight violations, an American Air Force officer said:
 Things are going to be pretty rough around here" if the Russians try.
 More Planes
 The U. s. sent more Superior tresses to Europe, maintaining 90 of the great bombers there. It. Gen. Hoyt Vandenberg. Chief of Staff of the U. 8. Air Force and Air Secre- tary w. Stuart Symington headed from London to Germany.
 Count Folke Bernadotte. U. N. Mediator for Palestine. said there are rumors of impending coups by irregular clements alleged to be un- controllable, or to be used as spear heads of regular forces" His re- marks seemed aimed at the Jewish extremist group. Irgun Zvai Leumi, which has called in the past for Jewish occupation of Jerusalem and all of Palestine and for conquest of Trans-Jordan.