AMERICAN-SOVIET RELATIONS

Press, Volume LXXXIX, Issue 27206, 25 November 1953, Page 11

AMERICAN-SOVIET RELATIONS

Collaboration Urged By “Pravda”

(Rec. 11 p.m.) MOSCOW, Nov. 24. “Pravda” struck a new note today by recalling Russia’s war-time cooperation with the United States and declaring that the two countries would serve the cause of peace and progress if they again acted together. An article by the paper’s top-ranking writer, D. Kraminov, commemorated the twentieth anniversary of the United States-Soviet Russia Agreement of 1933, by which President Roosevelt recognised the Soviet State. “It is quite obvious that an improvement now of American-Soviet relations answers the fundamental interests of the American, as well as of the Soviet people,” Kraminov wrote. ‘‘There is no doubt that collaboration between the U.S.S.R. and the United States in the cause of the settlement of outstanding international questions would be the most important factor in the relaxation of international tension and the strengthening of peace.” American-Soviet war-time collaboration was “an essential factor in the victory of the gretft democratic coalition against the common enemy,” he wrote. “But at the end of the war some reactionary circles in the United States and Britain put forward plans based on the idea that the Soviet Union would be exhausted and lose its importance as a great Power. Mr Dulles had shown that he is not interested in bringing American-Soviet relations back to normal.” Kraminov’s article, couched in more reasoned terms than many recent references in the Soviet press to the United States; impressed observers by its recollection.of war-time collaboration and its insistence that both the Soviet and American peoples stood to benefit from the restoration of good relations.