Archive Report
Archive Report
American Projects for Security Alliances
Adjournment for one month of the meeting of the Council of Foreign Ministers left in suspense not only the peace settlements with Italy and the Danubian countries, which had been the main purpose of the parley, but the proposal of Secretary of State Byrnes that the great powers jointly guarantee the disarmament of Germany and Japan. The Byrnes project was given only cursory consideration at Paris, and no action was taken on another Byrnes proposal that special deputies be appointed to begin work on a final German settlement for submission to a general conference next November. In his radio report to the nation, May 20, Secretary Byrnes said he would renew that proposal when the Council reconvenes June 15.