MEETING WITH MR ATTLEE

Press, Volume LXXXVI, Issue 26122, 26 May 1950, Page 7

MEETING WITH MR ATTLEE

A London message says that Mr Lie proposed a 20-year peace pact between the four Great Powers and a special session of the United Nations when he saw the British Prime Minister (Mr ! Attlee) on his way to Moscow a month ' ago. reliable sources admitted to-day. j These sources said that Mr Lie was returning to Lake Success with the belief that further negotiations be-. tween East and West were possible, and that the United Nations still offer- i ed the best channel for negotiation. I A United Nations spokesman said to- > day that Mr Lie did not bring back any specific proposals from his visit to Mr Stalin, and he would not be taking any proposals from the Krem- I lin to President Truman when he re- I turned to New York to-night. The spokesman added that Mr Lie's I visit to Russia was not the kind to ' yield immediate headlines. “Neither ! side entered into any commitments," I he said. The spokesman said that the results of Mr Lie's visit would probably not ' show for another two months. He added that Mr Lie might issue a stale- i ment to counter the “wildly inaccur- i ate” reports of his m : s«inn to Moscow. 1

The spokesman said that the question of China had occupied much of Mr Lie's 90-minute talk with Mr Stalin. Observers in London believe that the response of the world capitals to Mr Lie's visit, combined with the reticence of Mr Lie himself, suggest that Mr Stalin has tossed the China question—and with it the whole SecurityCouncil deadlock-back to Mr Truman for action. Reliable sources in London say that one of Mr Lie’s main purposes in London was to sound the British Government’s reactions to the proposals he left behind in April, when he was on his way to Moscow. These proposals included the idea of a 20-year peace pact between the four Bis Powers and a special Security Council session to settle the deadlock over Chinese representation and atomic control. Before he left for the United States to-night. Mr Lie issued a statement saying that his visit to Mr Stalin had demonstrated that the United Nation 1 ' offered the only solution to the cold war. and the only method by which peace could be keot.