FOUR-POWER TALKS

Press, Volume LXXXIX, Issue 27213, 3 December 1953, Page 11

FOUR-POWER TALKS

British Comment On Aims

(N.Z. Press Association—Copyright)

XRec. 11 p.m.) LONDON, December 2. British newspapers today hailed the forthcoming Bermuda conference as the first step toward a possible meeting with Russia and a settlement of European problems. . „ The ‘‘ Dai,y Express” said that the object of British policy m Bermuda must be to promote Sir Winston Churchill’s plan f°. r a . ur meeting within the framework of friendship with the United States, and hope and confidence must remain that the Americans will one day come to accept a policy of a businesslike settlement with the Russians. The Yorkshire Post” said that the Bermuda conference could prepare the ground for the realisation of Sir Winston Churchill s dearest wish—a parley with the Russians leading to a true consolidation of peace. A painter’s easel and canvasses were in Sir Winston Churchill’s luggage when he left for Bermuda last night. A Bermuda message says that Sir Winston Churchill and Mr Eden are expected to fly into cloudy weather and showers today, nearing Bermuda, two days before the Big Three conference opens. e