“N.Z. LAMB STORED IN GERMANY”

Press, Volume LXXXIX, Issue 27149, 19 September 1953, Page 7

“N.Z. LAMB STORED IN GERMANY”

(Rec. 9 p.m.) LONDON, Sept. 17. The “Daily Express” says that the British Ministry of Food, to overcome storage problems, has put 3000 tons of New Zealand lamb into cold storage in Hamburg. Altogether 15.000 tons of meat are to -be stored in European ports. In addition, the Ministry has asked Australian and New Zealand producers to slow down the rate of supplies for some weeks.

N.Z. Motor-cyclist’s Success. — Geoff Mardon, of Christchurch, New Zealand, was third equal in the world speedway championship at Wembley tonight. Fred Williams, of Wales, won the championship. Williams scored points, “Split” Waterman 13, and Mardon and Sweden’s Olle Bygren ■cored 12.—London, September 17.

Mr Dulles said the United States was prepared to explore ways to end world tension. “We shall, I hope, never grow weary or discontented in our quest for peace,” he said, “But what the United States does, cannot achieve the desired goal unless there is an equivalent response. “Occasions are now imminent which permit, indeed require, the Soviet leaders to show more authentically their present intentions on Korea.” Mr Dulles was the first speaker in the general debate which was begun today by the United Nations General Assembly.

“The Korean armistice evokes a heartfelt welcome, but the armistice itself is inconclusive as a test of the Communist will to peace, because there was by then an effective military barrier to aggression. The Korean political conference, if the Communists come to it, will afford a better test,” he said.

The United States sought no pretext for using Korea as a place for building up a military outpost on the Asian mainland, and the Republic of Korea had no ambitions which ran beyond Korea, said Mr Dulles. “If Soviet Russia and Communist China are willing to renounce ambitions which would be served by the control of North Korea, then it should be possible to unite Korea under conditions which will enable Koreans freely to manage their own affairs,” he said. “Dilatory Tactics”

“So far, it seems to us, the Communist side is pursuing dilatory tactics. The United States, pursuant to this Assembly’s resolution of August 28, after consultation among the 17 nations nominated to represent the United Nations side, proposed a specific time and specific places for the meeting.

“This proposal was received by the Chinese Communists on September 5. The response made on September 15 was merely a reference to the proposal which the Chinese Communists made to this Assembly, that it should reopen its past decision and review its 10-day debate of last month with reference to the composition of the conference.

“Meanwhile, September 28, the last day for the opening of the conference as recommended by the armistice agreement, is rapidly approaching, without any possibility of making the necessary time-consuming preparations. We are forced to doubt that the Communist side really wants to comply with the armistice and face up to the problem of withdrawing their forces from Korea and creating a united and independent Korea.” On Indo-China, Mr Dulles said the Communist forces there were seeking to gain political power by military violence. Their military strength came from a steady flow of military supplies from Communist China and the Soviet Union, and from the Sovietcontrolled Skcda munition works.

“The Communist-dominated armies in Indo-China have no shadow of claim to be regarded as the champions of the independence movement,” he said. “If the Soviet bloc of countries outside Indo-China persists in promoting war in Indo-China, they cannot now be surprised if their conduct is taken as proof that they adhere to the design to extend their rule by methods of violence.

“South-east Asia affords the Soviet leaders a chance to give substance to their peaceful words. We anxiously await their verdict.” Germany “a Testing Area’*

“Germany is another area where the present purposes of the Great Powers face inescapable testing. The division of Germany cannot be perpetuated without grave risks, for no great people will calmly accept mutilation. “Since the Foreign Ministers* conference in Moscow in 1947, many efforts have been made to unite Germany and to establish, through free elections, an all-German Government with which peace could be dependably negotiated. “The task has proved one of immense difficulty. The Russian people, like the French, have not forgotten what their nation suffered from Hitlerite Germany during World War 11. They expect, and they are entitled to, an assurance against a repetition of such events.

“And that is also the ardent wish of the German people themselves. That is indeed the large purpose of the European Defence Community. It will merge German military strength into the structure of a non-aggressive European community. “No single member of the community will have the national military strength to serve national ambitions. That is a result which the Soviet leaders should welcome if they honestly want peace. “So three of the Western Allies have again sought a meeting with the Soviet Union to accomplish the unification of Germany. So far our proposals have met with no response.” Mr Dulles said that Austria presented another test case. There was now no substantial item of disagreement between the three Western Governments and the Soviet Union on the Austrian State Treaty and the Western Occupying Powers had offered to conclude a treaty at a meeting of the Foreign Ministers which had been proposed. So far that proposal also had met with no response. Mr Dulles said the entire situation in Eastern and Central Europe was bound to be the cause of great concern. It was not in the interests of peace or the other goals of the United Nations that once independent peoples of Europe should feel they could no longer live by their traditions and their faith. “No Exporting of Revolution” “But our creed does not call for exporting revolution and inciting others to violence. Let me make that emphatic. We believe that violent change usually destroys what'it would gain. We put our hopes in the vast possibilities of peaceful change. Our hope is that the Soviet Communist leaders, before it is too late, will recognise that the love of God, love of country and sense of human dignity always survive. Repressive measures inevitably lead to resentment and bitterness, and perhaps something more.” Mr Dulles said the Americans could I understand the Russian people’s desire ta have friends and the United

States did not want to see Russia encircled by hostile peoples. “But we foresee that unless Soviet policies are changed those policies will in their actual operation create precisely such surrounding animosity and hostility as Soviet policy understandably wants to avoid.

“Policies which will permit Korea to be united and free, which will allow independence to come peacefully in Indo-China, which will unite Germany and free Austria, which will enable Russia’s neighbours to enjoy national independence, which will end the dedication of the Soviet Communist Party to the violent overthrow of independent governments—such are the policies which would go far to end the present tensions.”

Mr Dulles said there were other ways to reduce the tensions, but he had spoken of the major causes of the present tension and he hoped he had made clear the willingness of the United States to discuss them all. The United States recognised that it had its contribution to make, and obligations to fulfil. “I say on behalf of the Government of the United States that we are prepared to show in ourselves the spirit which we invoke in others. Such a spirit, if it is mutual, should make it possible to tackle hopefully what is perhaps the greatest problem —that of controlling forces which could destroy us all.”