SOVIET UNION AND PEACE

Press, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 25309, 8 October 1947, Page 8

SOVIET UNION AND PEACE

REPLY TO “THE PRESS”

“The Trades Council will agree with ‘The Press’ that ‘those who cry peace should speak the truth, and all of it.’ No one should know better than ‘The Press’ the essential need for ‘truth and all of it’ because the council erred, neither grossly nor obviously, in contrasting the policies of the U.S.S.R. and the U.5.A.,” said a statement issued yesterday, on behalf of the Canterbury Trades Council, by Messrs John Roberts (chairman) and A. B. Grant (secretary), in reply to a leading article in “The Press” yesterday. The council, said the statement, had contrasted the policies affecting the peace and well being of the people of the world. It was on record, and had been published, that the Soviet had worked for international peace and practised tolerance; it was also on record, and had been published, that the spokesmen for the U.S.A, had been more than remarkably intolerant, and, in many cases, had openly advocated war. “In criticising Randolph Churchill the Trades Cotmcil is not greatly concerned with his influence, or lapk of it. The Trades Council is concerned, as should be every responsible organisation, with the increasingly obvious fact that many thousands of Randolph Churchills are talking the world into another war. These people are being assisted by the equally irresponsible press, which condones, and fails to condemn, all those who talk as Mr Churchill does. Mr Churchill should also be told that representatives such as he are injuring an intensive campaign to build New Zealand goodwill and assistance to Britain. However, probably his ego, ambition, and hatred are such that he is careless of this fact, or perhaps this is his deliberate intention.”