| Show Russia Receives New Bid to Recovery M Meet et British French Urge Cooperation Bevin Warns Against Provocation By lAN ROMAN JIMENEZ LONDON July 5 JP P AI Britain and Franco France have sent Bent new notes to Russia expressing the hope that the Soviet decision t to boycott the M Marshall hall plan is not fi final final a foreign office spokesman spokes spokes- man said Saturday The disclosure of the new attempt to include Russia in the I program for rebuilding Europe came less than 24 hours after Bri British h Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin warned Russia not to pro to pro provoke voke yoke the western world The spokesman said laid Britain had bad handed her note Friday to Georgi Soviet ambassador in m London for transmission to his government and that France FrancC had given a similar communication to Alexandro Alexandra Bogomolov R Russian llan ambassador in Paris arIs The new notes were dispatched while European nations studied French British-French invitations to a a. 24 nation notion conference opening in Paris July 12 which will win get down downto to work July 15 on a plan for an integrated ted European economy with American financial assistance Bevins Bevin's Wa Warning g Bevins Bevin's warning to Russia was contained in a speech Friday night atan Independence day y dinner of the American society in London at which he asserted that regardless regardless regard regard- less of Britain's desire for peace others can con carry provocation too far fart DUBLIN J July 5 Eire m-Eire GP Eire Saturday night announced Its acceptance of the French Anglo-French invitation to a conference la In Paris J July Y 12 to establish an an Intern International or organization f for r economic recovery under the Marshal 0 offer f CJ T- T i At one point in ill the a address ho he said I love lovel th the Russian Foreign Minister Georges G orges B BIdault BIdault BI- BI dault of ot France is expected here hero next week to discuss with Bevin further aspects of the Marshall proposal the foreign office spokesman spokesman spokes spokes- man announced A Rome dispatch said the I Its Itol ian foreign ministry had accepted with pleasure a French British French invitation to attend a conference on the Marshall plan Greece Portugal Por Per tugs the Netherlands and Denmark Denmark Den Den- mark also either h have vc accepted or have indicated th they y will accept Statements from other capitals capital gave reason reMon for belief that five others Turkey others Turkey Belgium SWItZerland Switzerland Switz SWItZ- erland Eire and Iceland Iceland also also would attend London diplomatic observers said they expect at least 12 countries coun countries coun tries to reply fa favorably Among those that probably will not they said are Yugoslavia Hungary Bulgaria and Finland all Finland all under Soviet influence Official attitudes See Page 2 Column 1 I RUSS NOTES I I Continued from Page Page- One Ono of or Czechoslovakia and Poland were In inthe the making Saturday Discloses Note ote Britain and France which have laid the for tor or the conference conference conference con con- ference Issued the invitations Thursday night The day before they had failed to get agreement from Soviet Foreign Minister V. V M. M Molotov to a program of European econ economic c cooperation to take advantage of ot an offer of United States help elp made by Secretary Secretary Sec Sec- Secretary of State George C. C Marshall Jn In a Harvard university speech June 5 The French foreign ministry through which the invitations were sent disclosed the text Friday Under an Informal time Urne table the note sets up the nations invited every ery every considerable one in ir Europe Europe Europe Eur Eur- ope except the Soviet Union and Fran Franco o Spain would Spain would answer by next Thursday meet in n Paris Saturday Sat Sat- urd y and set et up committees to begin work July 15 and andreport report befort befort befort be- be fort Sept 1 Under French British proposals from which the conference is to work a 8 steering committee with subcommittees on food power metals and transport would ouid list European resources and needs needs' in inthe inthe inthe the report to be presented to the U. U S. S government A British foreign office spokesman spokesman spokes spokes- man at a news conference Friday voiced hope hope that the invited nations na na- na- na tiong tion would be left completely free and uninfluenced by every great power to make their own decision The Moscow radio reported the British French invitation without comment In its first bulletin in Russian Saturday morning heard in London Russ Buss Comment However the official Russian news agency Tass in Jn a Parts Paris dispatch dispatch dispatch dis dis- dis- dis patch said said These separatist actions of the British and French governments which try to force their arrangements on the question question question ques ques- tion of of American aid on other European countries encounter t r serious serious se se- se- se rious criticism in cir cir- cir cir- cle des cles A Moscow dispatch by Eddy Gilmore of the Associated Press Friday quoted informed persons as ying 5 that good har harvests vests vest ih in pr prospect and industrial production rising was WM in a position position position tion to offer economic aid of her own to European countries as as a counterattraction to the Marshall plan Two Czechoslovak officials officials- Premier Klement Gottwald Communist Communist Com Corn and nd hi his foreign minister Jan Masaryk M s headed ryk-headed headed for Moscow after d discussions in Prague parliamentary parliamentary parliamentary par par- circles Friday On the train with them was Polish Premier Josef and nine ministers homeward bound for Warsaw and a Polish decision on the conference Poland and Czechoslovakia signed a cultural cultural cul cut tural and trade treaty in Prague Friday In Sofia British and French diplomats planned to call on Bulgarian Bulgarian Bul But garian Foreign Minister Kimon Georgiev Saturday with the written written writ writ- i ten invitation A reply was wu expected ex eJ within a few days j |
