NOTE FROM SOVIET

Press, Volume LXXXVI, Issue 26264, 8 November 1950, Page 7

NOTE FROM SOVIET

Britain Studies Proposal (N.Z. Press Association —Copyright) (Rec. 7 p.m.) LONDON, Nov. 6. The Foreign Secretary (Mr Ernest Bevin) would try to obtain a test of Soviet good faith before agreeing to the four-Power conference on German disarmament »which Russia suggested in its Note at the week-end, said British officials to-day. Mr Bevan, who has already studied the Note, attended a Cabinet meeting this morning when Russia's proposal was considered.

In Paris to-day the French Socialist Party called for a Big Four meeting to examine the questions now dividing the world. It asked that France taka the initiative in promoting such a meeting. The party also declared that EuroBean unification without Britain and candinavla would be without value and unity must be sought by methods which would permit tjiese nations to participate. The Indian Ambassador to Russia (Sarvapalli Radhakrishnan) said .in Paris to-day that he hoped the West* ern Powers would accept Russia's proposal for a Big Four meeting. “The Russians seem to be in a plia.it concilatory mood, and I do not see any reason why they should not be taken at their word and some settlement reached to save the world from this nightmarish atmosphere,” he said.