Evening star., 1954-10-24
Russia Denounces
! Pact, Asks Big Four
Meeting on Germany
By .he As,osiated Pres.

4 By .hs kssoeiofsd Press
MOSCOW. Oct. 23.-The So
Wet Union today vehemently
denounced the London Paris
agreements for rearming West
ern Germany and proposed again
a meeting Of the Big Four for
etgn ministers to settle the prob
lem Of reunifying Germany.
The Soviet note. suggesting
that the meeting be held next
month, was handed to the.
American. British and French
ambassadors at the very time the
London accords bringing West
ern Germany into the Western
defense alliance were being
fsigned in Paris.
) ], The decisions of rearming
Western Germany, the note said,
radically contradict the inter-
ests of the maintenance of peace
and intensifies the threat of q
, new war in Europe"
Few Western diplomats were
surprised by the timing of the
note which, in effect, rejected
r previous Western conditions for
"a Big Four meeting. These in
cluded demands that the Soviet
Union agree to sign an Austrian
independence treaty and to hold
genuinely free alderman elec-
tions before any such conference
takes place.
tIn Washington. State. De-
. partment experts began an
immediate study of the Soviet
il maneuver based on reports
from Ambassador Charles E.
Bohlen in Moscow. The de-
1g partment had no comment.
'a The Soviet proposition was re-
garded as containing nothing
essentially rew.)
Way to ,Mihtarism Cited.
!, The note condemned the Lon
don-Paris agreements as "open-
ing the way for re-establishment
of German militarism."
western Germany would be
turned into a dangerous hotbed
of a new war in Europe" said the
note given to the ambassadors
by Foreign Minister v. M. Molo-
tov at the Foreign Ministry.
1.-THE London plan also envis-
ages the inclusion Of West Ger
many In the North Atlantic
Treaty Organization which spurs
the possibility of German mill
tarists having a direct influence
for further strengthening the
aggressiveness of the NATO
forces"
The note declared the accords
were signed by powers which
have the "aim of world domina-
ton" and are "inconsistant with
the restoration of the sovereign
rights of the German people,"
Referring to disarmament pro-
posals now before the United
Nations, the note said it is "im-
possible to propose general re-
duction of ornaments and at the
same time carry out remilitariza-
ton of Western Germany"
Big Four Topics Suggested.
Again proposing meeting of
the Big -Four foreign ministers,
the note suggested that the con-
ference discuss:
/. "The re-establishment of
the unity of Germany on
peace-loving and democratic
basis and the carrying out of
alderman elections"
2. Concerning the withdrawal
of the occupation troops of the
four powers from East and West
Germany"
3. Concerning the convocation
of an all-European conference
to examine the question of the
creation of a system of collective
security for all Europe"
AS for Austria, the Soviet Union
said it has already agreed to
authorize its ambassador in Vien-
ma to take part in meetings there
with representatives of the West
ern Big Three and the Austrian
government on the question of an
independence treaty.
The note said the Soviets
would like to know if the gov
ernments of the three powers
agree that their ambassadors
take part"