WESTERN ATTEMPTS TO PRESERVE PEACE

Press, Volume LXXXVI, Issue 26126, 31 May 1950, Page 7

WESTERN ATTEMPTS TO PRESERVE PEACE

Mr Acheson And Mr Lie Talk With Mr Truman

“SUBSTANTIAL PROGRESS” BY ATLANTIC COMMUNITY

(N.Z. Press Association—Copyright) (Rec. 10 p.m.) NEW YORK, May 29. The United States Secretary of State (Mr Dean Acheson), who is enthusiastic about his recent visits to Paris and London, reported to President Truman to-day that substantial progress had been made in the formation of an Atlantic community strong enough to command respect from the Soviet Union for its treaty obligations to the principles of the United Nations, says the W ashmgton correspondent of the “New York Times.” Mr Truman to-day listened to two different points of view on possible contributions to peace, one from Mr Acheson and the other from Mr Trygve Lie, Secretary-General of the United Nations. Mr Lie was reported to have made another appeal to Mr Truman to end the paralysis of the United Nations by permitting the Chinese Communist Government to be represented in that organisation. None of the principals in to-day’s Washington discussions said anything about their conversations, but their associates reported that everybody concerned had adhered to his original stand. Mr Truman expressed sympathy with the ends sought by Mr Lie, but insisted that the Soviet Union, not the United States, was responsible for the paralysis of the United Nations. After his meeting with Mr Truman, Mr Lie said he had not brought any message from Mr Stalin. Earlier, Mr Lie had had a private talk with Mr Acheson at the State Department.

RESULTS OF EUROPEAN TALKS

“Mr Acheson’s first detailed report to the President on his meetings with the Foreign Ministers of the North Atlantic Treaty Powers has apparently added to the conviction in official quarters in Washington that the hope of peace lies, not in submitting to the Soviet demands for seating Chinese Communists in the United Nations, but in organising the non-Communist world to support the principles of the United Nations,” says the “New ,York Times” correspondent* “Mr Acheson’s meetings in London and Paris have evidently convinced him that the economic recovery of Europe has progressed to a point where the North Atlantic Treaty nations can increase their military budgets, and are willing to work together on a common defence plan. “Mr Acheson is reported to have said that the North Atlantic Treaty nations had agreed in London on the nature of the Soviet problem and the necessity of co-ordinating their policies to meet that problem. “It is said that France’s offer to pool its coal and steel production with that of Germany, Britain's willingness to I reach a compromise agreement on the United States proposal for a European Pavments Union under the Marshall Flan, and the North Atlantic Council s agreement on a general increase oi defence appropriations all contribute to Mr Acheson’s confidence that his policy is succeeding.

L “Consequently the emphasis at the 1 State Department is being placed on 1 Mr Acheson’s policy of building a new ’ unified strength in the Atlantic coml munity, rather than in Mr Lie’s policy ! of entering into new conversations ; with the Soviet on the outstanding ? differences between East and West.” Mr Acheson is scheduled to report ’■ to Congress on Wednesday on his ’ mission overseas. Mr Lie’s Proposals Reuter quotes informed sources to I say that Mr Lie handed Mr Truman a *I memorandum containing 10 points as the basis of a 20-year peace pro- - gramme. It was presumably submitted , to Mr Stalin, the British Foreign Secretary (Mr Ernest Eevin) and the French Foreign Minister (Mr Robert [ Schuman). ; The main point, according to Reuter, > was a proposal for a special meeting • of the United Nations Security Coun- ; cil. attended personally by the Foreign Ministers of the Big Powers. i The other points included a re- ■ sumption of attempts to: >| (1) Settle the deadlock over interi national control of atomic and coni ventional weapons. (2) Create an international police force to enforce the United Nations’ ‘ decisions. • (3) End the impasse on the admis- ; sion of new members to the United I Nations.