PEACE PROPOSAL URGED

Press, Volume LXXXIX, Issue 26985, 10 March 1953, Page 9

PEACE PROPOSAL URGED

Suggestion Of U.S. Congress

(Rec. 9 p.m.) WASHINGTON, Mar. 8 Mr Kenneth Keating, a Republican member at the JJmted States House of Representatives, today urged the Eisenhower Administration to send a new proposal for peace to the Kremlin in the hope that the new Soviet leaders would agree to end the Korean war.

Simultaneously, several Senators said the United States must not let its guard down because of the death of Stalin. They said that the Communist threat would continue. Mr Keating said that now was the time to strike for peace. Calling for a new peace proposal to be presented as quickly as possible, he said it was in the realm of possibility that such a plan would succeed. Senator William Khowland (Republican). Senator Homer Ferguson (Republican}, and Senator Mike Moroney (Democrat) said that the United States should not let the elimination of Stalin weaken her defences or her foreign policy. Senator Knowland said he did not think Stalin’s death would mean any change in Soviet policy, and Senator Moroney said there was bound to be slipping and a lack of trust in the satellite members as members of the “palace guard fought for the king*s title.”

Mr William Bullitt, former United States Ambassador to Moscow, predicted that Mr Malenkov would follow Stalin’s plan, which, Mr Bullitt said, aimed to capture the Far East as a prelude to world conquest Mr Malenkov, like Stalin, was afraid of an all-out war with the United States because of - American superiority in intercontinental bombers and in hydrogen bombs, Mr Bullitt claimed.

He called for a “stepped-up” war in the Far East, including a total halt of sea trade to Communist China, more munitions for Allied forces in Korea and Indo-China, the use of Chinese .Nationalist troops, and the bombing of Communist communications Mr Bullitt said that Mr Malenkov was very tough, but his ideas were entirely the ideas of Stalin. Stalin

had believed since 1918 that the way to conquer the earth was first to capture China, then the rest of Asia, then Europe, and then the United States. The former .Ambassador said the West must win the three-front war in Asia—the Korean and Indo-Chinese conflicts, and what he termed the Nationalist Chinese front against the Chinese Communists. The West must not try and win, using everything it had got-—the Chinese Nationalists, bdmbing communications. stopping all supplies, and going in and making an attack. He did not elaborate on what he meant by an attack.