WORLD ASSEMBLY PLAN

Press, Volume LXXXI, Issue 24741, 5 December 1945, Page 3

WORLD ASSEMBLY PLAN

ATTACK BY RUSSIAN PAPER

REALISM OF SOVIET POLICY

{Special Correspondent N.Z.P.A.) .. LONDON, December 3. Suggestions by the British Foreign Secretary (Mr Bevin) for a directly *world assembly were criticised Russian Communist party p«per, Pravda.” J

“Much is being said about a new world organisation which would safehnmh world from the atomic and from war—a world ■ parliament or world government to which peoples would have to surrender to * xtent .£ eir national sovereignty, says Pravda." “One hears ah°ut the revision of the United Nations Charter with the aim °? restricting the national sovereignity of its principal participants, the Great cm!firi r in/. for the sake of consolidating confidence among the peoples. This ar Sument is not very convincing tl , a cannot get away from the fact that under the cloak of preaching universal confidence, the very substance ?: h=Ly niteJ *x, Natlons Charter, which on * th ? co-operation, in the 5hL P th 6 ' °rV h f Great p °wers. and while the Charter was still being ° Ut ’. attemPtS Uiade to undermine the accord of the Great Powers on the pretext of defending democratic principles within the interilnLT 31 organisation. Their attempts Now they are being revived Much patient and persistent effort is still needed to consolidate the transitional period from war to peace. * uu Soviet are blamed for stubborn realism. These words, addressed to us, were uttered in the Bouse of Commons. Brigadier Fitzroy Maclean, in the foreign affairs debate veml ?- er 22, said the Russian policy ‘is based on hardheaded realism and a high sense of their national interest.’ They are not insulting words. We accept them as a compliment. We think that stubborn realism is now more important brightest dreams.” ■