ATTITUDE OF RUSSIA

Press, Volume LXXXIX, Issue 27203, 21 November 1953, Page 7

ATTITUDE OF RUSSIA

“Stalin’s Ghost Holds Sway”

,NZ Press Association— Copyright) Rec. 8 pan.) NEW YORK, November 19. kSHtani s Ambassador to the United States, Sir oger Makins, said in a speech today that “Stalin’s host once more seems to hold sway in the Kremlin.” Referring to the Soviet rejection of the Western nronosals jrthe Big Four Foreign Ministers’ conference he said: “In the few weeks our efforts to secure evidence of Russian rillingness to talk have received a conclusive answer.” , ha ‘„ e 7h r /fi ha M geS r ™ ig * lt i have occurred in Soviet internal riiwes, in the fie d of Soviet external relations, at all events. >e influence of Stalin once more seemed to hold sway “The conditions which the Russians propose as the basis , r negotiatwn m Europe at least seem impossible to fulfil Jtte discard” " P ° Hcy and ° Ur defensive sys " e «" Sir Roger Makins added: “If we do not find a basis for igotiation one year, we cannot give up hope of finding it i the next. & He said he believed that British and American assessments [ policies and intentions of the Communist powers agreed sj- closely, as did their views on the broad course which the Hies had to follow to meet them.