PROSPECTS FOR PEACE

Press, Volume LXXXIV, Issue 25608, 24 September 1948, Page 7

PROSPECTS FOR PEACE

Obstacles Thought Surmountable

MR TRUMAN ON SOVIET AIMS

(N.Z. Press Association—Copyright) (Rec. 10 p.m.) NEW YORK, Sept. 22. He was so convinced that the plain °f the world wanted peace that he had never regarded Russia’s policies as insurmountable obstacles to peace said President Truman in a speech in San Francisco to-night Recalling the birth of the United Nations in San Francisco, President Truman said he believed that the cause tt -P e^ ce ha< * been advanced by the united Nations in Persia, Greece, Syria, Lebanon, and Indonesia. Furthermore, the United Nations had stopped violence from breaking into open war in India and Palestine. However, it would be foolish to overlook the problems caused by the tactics of the Soviet Union. Mr Thomas Dewey, in a campaign speech to-night in Albuquerque, New Mexico, urged that United States assistance to Europe be used to promote the federation of Westen Europe.

The countries of Western Europe and Western Germany had a population almost twice that of the United States. Divided into 16 separate and weak nations each one was an invitation to attack, but united in a strong federation they could be an enormous bulwark to peace. .