Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-01-27
Dulles Asks Big Four to Skip
Red Plan to Meet With Chino,
Go On to Concrete Problems
Germany and Austria
Woit, He Declares;
MoIotov Replies
By the Asseeia,sd Press

BERLIN, Jan. 21.-SecreLary
of State Dulles urged the Berlin
conference today to skip over
action on Russia's proposal for
a meeting with Communist
China and come to grips i'm
mediateV with the problems OF
German uniflcation and Euro
pean security.
Mr.. Dulles declared the Soviet
demand for a f1ve-power con-
ference including the Peiping
government lis primarily a de-
vice to attempt to secure for
that regime a position in the
councils of the world which it
has not earned or had accorded
to it by the international COM
munity generally, including the
United Nations"
Certainly he emphatically
declared. this four-power con-
ference is not the place to decide
that matter"
Britain'S Foreign Secretary,
Anthony Eden, and Frances
Foreign Minister. Georges
Bidault. concurred with Mr..
Dulles on the rejection Of the
Soviet proposal
MOIOtOv Presents Own Issues.
After they spoke, Soviet For
eign Minister v. M. Molotov-
who had declined to start the
debate on his own proposal-re-
piled in a long statement which
Western authorities described
as contending the Big Five con-
ference is urgent and should
tackle the following issues:
/. Military questions such as
disarmament and reduction of
forces.
2. General relaxation of world
tensions, including an examina-
ton of causes of tensions. and
specifically an. Improvement in
relations with Communist China.
3. Economic questions. He
made the point that he thought
it abnormal that 800 million
Chinese and Russians and others
in the Communist sphere should
be cut of from fuller trade con-
facts with the rest of the world.
Has First Place on Agenda.
Mr.. Molotov had submitted to
the conferences second session
yesterday a formal resolution
calling a five-power meeting in
May or June. The United States
had already rejected the whole
concept. But it also had aC-
cepted, along with Britain and
France, a Russian sponsored
agenda which put the f1ve-power
proposal as the first item of bust
ness beginning in the third ses-
sion today.
Half an hour after this after
Moons meeting got under way,
Assistant Secretary of State Nc
Cardle handed to reporters a
text of the Dulles statement
which re-emphasized the Ameri-
can position and declared: 1T
would be- wrong if, having come
together for the first time in
five years, we should fritter away
our time in discussing whether
and how to set up new con-
ference rather than in dealing
with the substantive problems
Germany and Austria) which
the world expects us to solve"
Proposes Passing On.
1.-THE United States therefore
proposes. Mr.. Dulles said, that
we should take no action on the
first agenda item (the five-power
conference) and pass on to the
second Germany and European
security and third austrian in
dependency.
IF we can solve these two
problems, then, and then only,
can we stand before the world
as capable of assuming other and
heavier tasks. Then there will
be opened up vistas of new hope"
American sources disclosed Mr..
Molotov had decided against any
speech in behalf of his Red
China motion this afternoon,
(See BIG FOUR, Page A-50