MR TRUMAN AND M. STALIN

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 68, Issue 143, 30 March 1948, Page 3

MR TRUMAN AND M. STALIN

Early Conference Urged (Rec. 9.30) NEW YORK, March 28. An appeal President Truman to try to meet M.-Stalin to make a last effort to reach'an understanding with him before “the world plunges over the precipice into an unspeakable third world War” was made in a broadcast speech to-day by Senator Claude Pepper (Democrat, Florida).

Senator Pepper said that at the meeting President Truman should present an American plan for peace discussed in advance with Congressional leadens, and Stalin rejected it then Americans would know that they "at least 'Jmd done what they cpuld do to prevent war. Senator Pepper, who talked with M. Stalin in Moscow in 1946 and often has been called an apologist for Russia, declared to-day: “The Soviet has been guilty of aggression which offends and affronts our sense of independence and the dignity and freedom of all peoples throughout the*world.”

Denying that he was an appeaser, Senator Pepper said: “But I know the horror of war with modern weapon’s, and I do not want to eee the youth of America butchered in another war if there is any way to prevent it.”

The White House said that there wetre no plans for the meeting of President Truman, Mr Attlee and M. Stalini, and the President had no plans to leave the United States. The announcement followed the London report that the Big Three ’might meet soon in Berlin.