Archive Report
Archive Report
Upcoming Negotiations on East-West Differences
With the Prospect that simultaneous negotiations will begin this autumn on political settlement of the Korean war and the future status of Germany and Austria, the United States is entering a new phase in the long postwar series of international negotiations between East and West.
The United States, Britain, and France have proposed to the Soviet Union that the Big Four foreign ministers meet at Lugano, Switzerland, on Oct. 15 to consider new steps toward a German settlement and conclusion of the long delayed Austrian peace treaty. The political conference on Korea is still scheduled to meet before Oct. 28 by terms of the armistice agreement and a United Nations resolution of Aug. 28, although last-minute efforts by the Chinese Communists ...