BRITISH VIEWS OF SPEECH

Press, Volume LXXXVI, Issue 26039, 16 February 1950, Page 5

BRITISH VIEWS OF SPEECH

The “Daily Express” says in a leading article: “Mr Churchill is not simply a man who knows how to sustain and uphold Britain’s dignity. He has the will to reach agreement with Russia, and he has the capacity—as the record of the war proved—to make a businesslike and realistic accommodation with Mr Stalin, based on the facts of British self-respect and power for peace and reconciliation.” The “Daily Mail” says that Mr Churchill “in one of his greatest speeches, focused our thoughts on the one supreme issue that matters to-day —the hydrogen bomb.” It adds: “Mr Churchill, with characteristic courage and candour, brought this subject into the open. He alone among the party leaders had dared to do it. He is still our outstanding statesman.”

Under the heading, “Bonnie Prince Winston Goes OVer the Border,” the “Daily Herald” puts Mr Churchill’s speech on an inside page, with his remarks on the atomic bomb at the end of its column and a half report. Lord Strabolgi, a Labour peer, said last night that -Lord Beaverbrook should be sent to Moscow for “the highest level conference on the terrible menace of the atom bomb.” Whatever party won the election should send him on this mission.

Lord Strabolgi said that Lord Beaverbrook, as war-time Minister of Aircraft Production, had got- on well with Mr Stalin.

"One more effort must be made on the highest level to reach a measure of agreement between the West and Russia to remove the dangers and causes of war,” he said.