INDIA’S PLANS OVERSEAS

Press, Volume LXXXIX, Issue 27090, 13 July 1953, Page 9

INDIA’S PLANS OVERSEAS

Malan’s Reference To Australia Deplored

MADRAS, July 11. A Madras independent newspaper, “Hindu,” said today in a leading article that Australia’s “White Australia” was not one-tenth as reprehensible as Dr. Malan’s policy of racial segregation. The newspaper was commenting on Dr. Malan’s assurance to the Australian Prime Minister (Mr Menzies) at a luncheon in Cape Town on Thursday that Australia could depend on South Africa’s help if it were menaced by “a Power in the Indian Ocean.”

The time might come when India would be “knocking on Australia’s door,” and when it did the great sister Dominion could depend on South Africa as a friend, Dr. Malan said in his speech. Dr. Malan’s speech was deplored by the English-language newspapers of the Union. Dr. Malan said they recently heard the cry: “The white man must quit Africa.” It was only one side of wnat was becoming a slogan. The other side was: “And let India enter.” Dr. Malan said it was the hope of the Union Government that European powers with possessions in Africa would remain in Africa.

Opening the conference, the American S ecre tary of State (Mr Dulles) said that a new convulsion” was in prothe Soviet Union. He added: The old system may remain and may continue to threaten, but an inherent weakness is disclosed. “We meet at a time of great opportunity. In East Berlin, East German and other satellite areas, the people are movea by a new hope. Freedom is again in the air.” . Mr Dulles said the Foreign Ministers were meeting to co-ordinate their views on such great matters as the significance of the dramatic developments now occurring within the Soviet Union. The Ministers must be alert to create, to find and to seize every opportunity to enhance the prospects of peace, justice and wellbeing in the world.

The French Foreign Minister (Mr Ueorges Bidault) said in a statement that the meeting made one of the most significant moments since the end of World War 11. He added that those responsible for the future of the free world must avoid two things —passivity and differences of opinion between themselves. Lord Salisbury (Britain) said he was sure the talks would produce fruitful results. He added that it was essential that the Big Three representatives should meet from time to time to assess the latest developments, review policies and reaffirm their unity.

Earlier today it was announced that the United States Ambassador to Moscow (Mr Charles Bohlen) had been ordered home for consultations on the dismissal of Mr Beria. The State Department said it was desired to obtain Mr Bohlen’s views while the Big Three Foreign Ministers’ meeting was in progress. It was said that Mr Bohlen had foreseen and reported the probable elimination of Mr Beria several days ago. Broadcast to Red Army The “Liberation Station,” believed to be a United States propaganda radio station in Germany, today broadcast to the Red Army “to rise against the Soviet regime before Mr Malenkov has time to establish his absolute rule. Now is the most opportune time to liberate Russia from the oppression of the Communist regime. Malenkov is weak. Strike him before he gets you all and your country shall be free.”

Other stations tried to jam the broadcast, but the voice of the announcer, slowly repeating the appeal several times, was heard clearly at a listening post in London. French political experts said today that they believed Mr Beria had a more liberal approach in Soviet politics and that he initiated the amnesty for prisoners, the release of the Jewish doctors, the promised revision of the penal code and the easing of control over minority groups. They thought Mr Beria might also have been behind the moves to reach a settlement with the West, but that he had gone too fast for Mr Malenkov and the Army leaders in trying to gain complete control of Russia. Reuter’s diplomatic correspondent says the post-Stalin struggle for power in the Soviet Union, spotlighted by the dismissal of Mr Beria, may drastically affect the whole future of East-West relations. The correspondent adds that the disruption of the triumvirate that took over power on Stalin’s death also poses the question of what will happen to the Russian “peace offensive.’ In Stockholm, one of the most reliable listening posts for Eastern Europe developments, observers said that the support of the Soviet Defence Minister (Marshal Bulganin) and the Red Army chiefs had enabled Mr Malenkov to win victory for the Communist Party against Mr Beria and his secret police. Stockholm observers expect further developments as Mr Beria’s thousands of henchmen are purged. Leading spokesmen of the Jugoslav Communist Party have been forecasting turmoil in Russia since Stalin’s death, but they had not expected that their talk of an internal crisis in the Soviet would receive so dramatic a confirmation.