DISTRUST AMONG POWERS

Press, Volume LXXXII, Issue 24816, 5 March 1946, Page 5

DISTRUST AMONG POWERS

GAP WIDER BETWEEN LEFT AND RIGHT

REPORTED FOREBODINGS OF DE GAULLE

_ NEW YORK, March 3. It is quite apparent that the distrust between Moscow and the Western Allies is not only preventing true peace from developing, but is at present tending to rip apart the Continent’s great middle-of-the-road population herding much of it reluctantly into the extreme Left and extreme Right political camps,” says the Paris correspondent •of , the “New York Times.” - - •

It is within such an uneasy atmosphere that dictatorships, both of the Right like Franco’s Spain, and the Broz ’ s Jugoslavia and Hoxha s Albania are thriving. Important emigre groups, whether they are Leftist like sections of the Spanish Republicans, or Rightist like General Anders’s Polish Corps, or those thousands of Jugoslavs in Italy and Germany who are loyal to King Peter’s dynasty, are openly talking of the need for organisation in order to benefit by swift action ‘when war comes.’

‘General de Gaulle, who sees nobody but his closest intimates these days, is spending his time in secluded reading. He has been telling some men that he is convinced that there will be war between the United States and Russia.

‘Opinions of this sort, especially when emanating from well-known personalities, rarely reach public print, but they typify the underlying atmosphere of mistrust which is rampant in Europe to-day and which also is well known to the Russians as well as to other Allied nations.”