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Big Four
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guarded deliberations slowed
down by the tedium of transla-
tions in three languages. the
parley had yet to hear the big
guns of Mr., Dulles and Mr.. Mol
otov.
At this first such meeting in
i've years, Mr.. Bidault said:
Clearly. our meeting should be
devoted to European problems
I do not believe that agreements
reached on q broad plane will
be advisable or even effective
We do not see why the fate OF
Austria should depend on that
of Korea, why there should be
established a link between the
unification of Germany and q
change in the international &C
cords 6 governing Communist
China"
Direct Notice to MolotOv.
This proposal served direct
notice to Mr.. Molotov that the
Western powers were united in
their stand against his proddine
for a Big Five meeting with Red
China sitting. in. Mr.. Molotov
arrived here Saturday with this
proposal on his lips.
As Mr.. Bidault spoke Mr..
Dulles sat opposite Mr.. Eden
with Mr.. Molotov at Mr.. Dulles
right.
Mr. Dulles presided without q
gavel. Mr.. Molotov. who wore
a blue suit and a gray tie,
looked rather pale with a forced
smile on his lips.
The meeting-the ninth the
Council Of Foreign Ministers has
held since 1945-was held in the
Allied Control Authority Build
ing in the American sector. once
a courthouse used by the Naz
regime before its defeat.
Mr.. Bidault's statement Of
Frances views quickly got the
parley down to the serious di.
vergence Of attitudes the Biz
Four must deal with. Concisely
he summed up:
/. Handle Europe now anc
leave Asia to later.
2. Bring Germany into a com.
munity of nations so that the
danger of revived militarism car
be absorbed by the purely de.
fensive nature of the Western al
lance.
8. Free elections first. rather
than the Soviet idea of the two
rival German government hav-
ing any voice now in any treaty
negotiations.
Resistance to Split Seen.
The declaration was a re.
statement of the American anc
British position as well but gath.
cred weight by the very fact thai
the French chose to bring it ur
first. It met head-on any spec.
ulation that France might be tn,
target of a Soviet drive to spill
the Western front.
It was Mr.. Molotov's first visi
to West Berlin since the 1874!
Potsdam Conference. It was Mr.
Dulles first major diplomatic
mission since he became Secre
tary of State.
The four sat down togethe
with their advisers around ];
square table under a ceilini
painting of the angel Gabrie
footing his trumpet Of doom.
Dulles and Molotov Confer.
Their first business was to pos,
for photographers Of four ma
tions and two half nations-Eas
and West Germany. They al
lowed Is minutes for.the pictur
taking.
Mr.. Dulles and Mr.. Moloto
arrived more than a half hou
early to have a preliminary tall
on conference arrangements
such as the choice Of a chairman
Attention was centered on an
meeting of these two principal
particularly In view Of the i'm
pending discussions on worl,
atomic energy control propose,
by President Eisenhower and re
ceived sympathetically by Mos
COW.
AS motorcades for each of tn
four ministers swept through tn
marble gateway, flags Of all fou
countries whipped from fou
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