一七月底八月初,新闻报导集中在柏林危机和莫斯科会谈上面,读者大都忽略了民主与反民主斗争中的另一环——那就是七月三十日开始的多瑙河通航会谈。这个会谈很重要。这不仅是说,这次会谈是一九四六年十二月外长会谈结束后一年另七个月中,第一次专门澈底检讨多瑙河问题的国际会议。也不仅是说,这次会议是一九四七年七月巴黎会谈以后「东」「西」两部份的国家,头一次同聚一堂讨论国际的在大问题的会议。而且,最后也是最重要的一点是:这次会议所讨论的新公约草 In late July and early August, news coverage focused on the Berlin crisis and the Moscow talks. Most of the readers ignored another part of the democratic and anti-democratic struggle - the Danube Navigation Talks which started on July 30. This meeting is very important. This is not to say that this meeting is the first international conference exclusively devoted to the review of the question of the Danube in the other seven months after the talks in December 1946. Nor does it mean that this meeting is the first of two meetings between East and West after the meeting in Paris in July 1947, for the first time to gather together to discuss international conferences on major issues. And, last but not least, the new conventions discussed at this meeting