Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-07-13
Big ; Conference
Approaching Stage
OF Concrete Action
BY Crosby S. Moves

~ SIOSVy . INVySS
With only two more days left
before the scheduled adjourn
ment. the council of the Big
Three foreign ministers pushed
forward today toward the crucial
decisions that will guide free
world policy in the coming
months.
AS Lord Salisbury, Mr.. Bidault
and Secretary of State Dulles
continue their discussion of
European problems today, there
are indications that the con-
ference is moving out of the
talking stage toward more con-
crete action.
The working groups" assigned
to tie together the ideas thrown
out in earlier discussions are
ready to report with drafts of
policy statements on Western
Europe, Germany and the de-
velopments behind the Iron
Curtain. Charles E. Bohlen, the
American ambassador to Moscow,
is on hand to add his own expert
opinions to the information al
ready available to the Big Three.
Move Toward Big Decision.
The decisions reached today
will point the way to the final
and most important decision of
the conference: whether or not
the time has come to seek a
meeting with the Russians and
try for a general settlement of
cold war issues.
The morning session is ex-
pected to be the last one devoted
specifically to European problems.
Before it is over, the ministers
are hopeful of getting on to the
question of Korea and a general
discussion of the Far Eastern
situation.
This afternoon two power
talks with the French on the
Indo-Chinese war will be re-
sumed. The diplomatic repre-
sentatives of the Indo-C Chinese
States of Laos, Wet Nam and
Cambodia. will be asked to at
tend the session.
COmmunique Tomorrow.
Tuesday morning, there will
be more tWo-power talks with
the British. The final Big Three
session will come in the after
noon, when the final COM
munique of the conference will
be worked out.
Some observers are getting the
impression that more positive
good in the way of arriving at
mutual understandings is COM
ing out of the two-power talks
than the more formal three
power discussions. A session
with Mr.. Bidault held at Secre-
tary of Dulles home yesterday
afternoon. seems to have gone
a long way toward clearing the
air on the question of Frances
plans on the Indo-Chinese war.
The talk covered the whole
ground. including the latest
political. military and financial
Developments. Mr.. Bidault did
most of the talking.
On the political side, he laid
great emphasis on the i'm
portance of the offer }of the
French Government on July 3
to meet with the three ~Asso-
Grated States of 1ndo-C China and
work out their future status
within the French Union. France,
he emphasized. is willing to go
as far as necessary to satisfy
the ambitions of the Indo-
Chinese States for independence
of French rule.
Mr.. Dulles. who is we'll aware
of the political complications
caused in Congress by the de-
mandS of the Indo-ChineSe
states. expressed his satisfaction
with the French attitude. It
would be a great help he thought
in building up steam behind the
military effort that the Asso-
ciated States will be called on
to make in the future.
American observers. recently
returned from Indo- China, re-
port that this. in fact, is the
case. There is evidence, they
say, of a new atmosphere of
good feeling for the French
since the July 3 offer. The peo-
pie of Indo-China are taking