Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-10-13
Variety Of World
Issues Expected
To Be Discussed
By Gurnett D. Homer

secretary OF State Dulles Will
fly to London tomorrow night for
conference with British For
eign Secretary Eden and French
Foreign Minister Bidault on cur
rent world problems, the State
Department announced today.
The conference is expected to
range over such issues as the
Trieste crisis, proposals for a Big
-Four meeting with Russia and
for offering the Soviet a non
aggression pact, and efforts to
achieve peace in Korea.
Officials here said they did not
expect any world shaking de-
cisions from the London meet
ing, however.
The conference, to begin Fri
day and wind up Saturday or
Sunday. was described as mainly
follow-through or continual
ton of Big Three foreign min
isters' talks held in Washington
in mid-July.
Not Emergency Session.
Officials said it was not an
emergency session called to con-
slider any one major problem.
Secretary Dulles suggested
about a month ago to Mr.. Eden
that it might be useful to have
some informal talks when Mr..
Eden returned to duty after the
long illness that incapacitated
him for most of the summer. Mr..
Eden returned to his Office this
month and officials said a vast
accumulation of work made it
announcement for him to come to
Washington.
Officials said there was no
agenda for the London meeting
other than a review of the same
kind of problems discussed in
the July talks here and any other
matters any of the three might
want to raise.
Problems to Come Up.
AS anticipated by American
officials, the chief problems be-
fore the London conference will
be:
/. Efforts to get Russia to
agree to Big Four Foreign Min
listers session on Germany and
Austria. Decision to seek such
conference, mainly to try to
agree on the basis for free cleo
lions throughout Germany as
preliminary to unification of
that divided country, was reached
at the July session here. Russia
has stalled on the matter so far.
2. The Trieste crisis, in which
YugoSlavia is vigorously pro-
testing a British-American de-
cision to turn over their admin
istration of Zone A of the
Trieste territory to Italy. Off
Gals said they expected no
change in the British-American
decision or any new develop
mentS on Trieste to come out of
the London talks, although there
might be a decision on Yugo-
slavia's call for a conference
with the United States, Britain
and Italy on the issue,
3. The European Defense
Community and other matters
relating to Western European
unity.
4. Far Eastern issues, notably
Korea and Indo-China. ,
Russian Talks Possible.
Officials said the conference
also might well get into the
questions of the possible offer of
a non-aggresSion pact to the
Soviet and British Prime Min
lister Winston Churchill's pro-
poSals for top-level Big -Four
talks with Russia on general
world problems.
They said, however, that there
has been no pressure from the
British regarding a Big Four
conference and no definite indi-
cation that Mr.. Eden would raise
this issue at the London meet
ing.
Mr.. Dulles will take only two
State Department aides TO Lon
don with him-DouglaS MacAr-
thur. End, counselor of the de-
partment, and Robert r. Bowie,