CONDITIONS FOR PEACE

Press, Volume LXXXVI, Issue 26123, 27 May 1950, Page 7

CONDITIONS FOR PEACE

World Arms Race Deplored INTERVIEW WITH MARSHAL TITO (N.Z. Press Association—Copyright) (Rec. 11.30 p.m.) NEW YORK. May 25. It was futile to talk of outlawing atomic weapons as long as the world arms race was in full swing, said Marshal Tito, President of the Jugoslav Council of Ministers, in a telephone interview. Marshal Tito was answering questions put to him by the United Nations Correspondents’ Association. His replies were translated in New York, and the interview was broadcast over a nation-wide network. Marshal Tito said that the United Nations had failed to outlaw atomic weapons because the question had not been approached at the right time. “It is essential urgently to eliminate from the relations between States those elements which are constantly causing increasing international tension, he continued. “It is essential to settle first the question of peace itself. I am convinced it will then be easy to settle the question of atomic energy as well.” Marshal Tito, without mentioning Russia, deplored the tendency of the Big Powers to interfere in the affairs Oi small nations. Colonial peoples fighting for their independence should be encouraged, should be no more economic or political domination of the world's undeveloped areas.

Marshal Tito said that the Second World War had shown that millions of people could be killed in destruction wrought everywhere, even without atomic weapons. He added: “Therefore it is not onty a question of outiawing atomic weapons, but also one of disarmament in general. Not empty declarations and catchwords, but concicte acts alone can show who is for peace and who is not. Such acts alone tt n -+ P ea ce. Only through the United Nations can international problems be overcome.”