NEW RUSSIAN FILM

Press, Volume LXXXVI, Issue 26198, 23 August 1950, Page 7

NEW RUSSIAN FILM

Criticism By British Foreign Office CHARGE OF FALSIFYING HISTORY (Rec 8 p.m.) LONDON, August 21. A British Foreign Office spokesman condemned as “falsification of history,” and a “disservice to the cause of peace,” the Soviet film, “Secret Mission,” which opened at 25 Moscow cinemas to-day. The film purports to show the British and American Governments trying to secure a separate peace with Germany during the closing stages of Second World War. Mr Churchill, Britain’s war-time Prime Minister, is shown as declaring that he has devoted 30 years to a vain struggle to wipe out” Russia. He is represented' as saying that a new war must be launched “which may not be so hard to start, but which may cost the lives of half the world’s population before it is ended."

In a formal statement in London today, the British Foreign Office spokesman said: “The making of Such groundless allegations is characteristic ot the Soviet Government’s policy of seeking to falsify history, and arousing the hatred of the Soviet people against their war-time allies, and it must, therefore, be regarded as a very great disservice to the cause of peace “It was agreed at ihe Moscow Conference, in October. 1943, between the British, American and Soviet Governments, that any peace feelers by the German Government to any one of them should at once be reported to the other two, and that the three Governments should then consult together with a view to concerting their action, inis agreement was scrupulously carried out by his Majesty’s Government.”