U.S. ENVOY TO MOSCOW

Press, Volume LXXXVIII, Issue 26854, 6 October 1952, Page 7

U.S. ENVOY TO MOSCOW

Soviet Demand For Recall

'Special Correspondent N.Z.P.A.)

(Rec 930 p.m.) WASHINGTON, October 4. The United States today drafted an angry Note to e T f g a l a ' nSt the “shamcfulAnd unprS cdented demand for the immediate recall of its Ambas. Ea dor (Mr George Kennan). •Ainbas-

es h wh^ a ra d i<l''thai m th !e *♦ S^ viet Note to the Unit «« Mr Ken ™ h ? d ag d a in ° s n t a: The Secretary of State (Mr Dean Acheson) said that Mr Kennan would return to Washington for consultations Till United States did not accept the charges as valid" Th

After consultation with President Truman, Mr Acheson gud there was no present intention of asking the Soviet Gov" S w K n L to re rM U r* * »PP°inted Soviet Washington (Mr Georgi Zarubin).

New 1 Vnrt .J lmes and tee New York Herald-Tribune” in leading articles today urged the United Sits* not to - hurry re ' ha^. 6 sJcT rM J® e r s ’ shnnirt l n r Stalir * . understands, there examination of the fitness to occupy his post in }JL as hi n £ton in the’ light of his recent 1S c, no . * America’ m the Soviet Union today. Mr Kennan, as one of our foremost students of the Soviet Union, is far too wen fitted to understand Soviet reality for the Kremlip's taste.” tt “§ era W’Tribunp” said that the united States Government had not recognised the validity of the charges against Mr Kennan, and said that Tie would simply return to Washington for consultation “still presumably with the title of Ambassador to the Soviet Union.”

t Ketall ation Favoured In Washington some members of Congress said they favoured some sort of retaliatory action.

Mr Omar Burleson * (Democrat. Texas), a member of the House of Representatives Foreign Affairs Committee. said: “Jf we brought everyone back from staff ip Russia and sent all the Russian diplomats home, we would have an advantage over the preseflt situation." Reuter’s Washington correspondent says it. would be difficult and possibly oamaging during the present election campaign for the Democratic Administration to make an issue out of refusing to retaliate against the Soviet Ambassador. An Associated Press report from Moscow said the announcement for the recall of Mr Kennan caused 'a sensation in the diplomatic colony there. The report said Western sources interpreted the Soviet action as indicating that the Kremlin was selfconfident and not much concerned about h<?w the United States Government might react. They said that the Soviet Union must have taken into consideration the* possibility that the United States would break off diplomatic relations as a reprisal. Since that did not deter them, they obviously placed small stakes on relations with the United States.

Mr Kennan said in Berlin last month that Soviet and American relations in Moscow had sunk to “an icy cold” status. He said that a new, ugly kind of restriction was being placed on Americans in Moscow, AH social contact with Russians had recently been 'orbidden. and even servants kept their distance.