Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1949-04-29
Moscow Answer
To Note May
Be Delivered
PEURIFOY SAYS PROOF Is
Lacking That Reds Are Giving
Up. Page AS.
BY the A,socioted Press

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BY the Assoeiaied Press
NEW YORK, April 29.-Repre-
sentatives of the United States
and Russia will meet here at 4
pm. today on the Berlin blockade
question.
The meeting will be in the
Soviet headquarters on upper
Park avenue between DR.. Philip
C. Jessup, American Ambassador
at-large, and Soviet Deputy For
eign Minister Jacob A. Malik.
They met there last on Wednes-
day.
Today's meeting was requested
by Mr.. Malik. This may mean the
Soviet representative has received
a written reply from Moscow to a
request which DR.. Jessup made
Wednesday for a formal declara-
ton of Russia's position on lifting
the blockade. However, an Amer
lean spokesman said he had no
knowledge whether MIR. Malik had
received a reply.
Regarded as Crucial Session.
This was regarded as the crucial
meeting In the series that started
privately last February Is when
DR.. Jessup first approached MIR.
Malik on the Berlin problem at
Lake Success.
If the Russian answer Is salts
factory to the Western powers. 1t
may open the way for lifting Of
the blockade quickly and an
agreement for d meeting Of the
Council Of Foreign Ministers on
the whole German question.
DR.. Jessup got telephone call
from Mr.. Malik a few minutes
after he arrived this morning at
headquarters of the American |
delegation to the United Nations.
DR.. Jessup had come from
Washington on his way to Nor
walk. Conn. to attend the funeral
of former Senator Frederick Wal
colt, his wife's uncle. He imme-
diately Cancelled plans to 80 to
Norwalk.
The American delegation spokes-
man said DR.. Jessup planned to
report to the State Department
and to the British and French |
u. N. representatives Immediately
after seeing Mr.. Malik.
Any announcement to the press,
he said, would have to come after
these consultations.
Plans for the American Soviet |
meeting were announced by the
United States while Mr.. Malik was
attending a meeting of the Steer.
ing Committee of the United
Nations Assembly at Flushing |
Meadow Park.
Proposal Report Denied.
The spokesman issued a formal
denial Of a Lake Success dispatch
in the New York Times today re-
porting the United States and
Britain would propose to the
projected Council of Foreign Min
listers that Western Germany
merge with Eastern Germany to
form single federal state.
The statement. read out at a
special news conference called by
the American delegations chief
press officer, said:
1T is'not correct. as reported in
the New York Times this morning,
that there is an Anglo-American
proposal relating to plans to be
advanced in a meeting of the
Council of Foreign Ministers if
one is to be held.
1.-THE United States has not at
this stage begun discussions re-
garding any proposals which might
be advanced at meeting of the
Council of Foreign Ministers If
one is held.
, These are all matters which
are currently under active consid-
Grafton In the Department of
State.
, The further statement in the
press report concerning French
disagreement with this proposal
Is, therefore, also without founda-
ton since no such proposal exists +"