U.S. REPLY T SOVIET

Press, Volume XCI, Issue 27695, 27 June 1955, Page 11

U.S. REPLY T SOVIET

Dulles’s Speech At U.N. SAN FRANCISCO. June 24. Mr Dulles today denounced international communism, the “unnatural division” of Germany, and the subjection to despotism of Eastern European nations. In a speech before the United Nations’ tenth anniversary meeting, Mr Dulles replied to the seven-point programme for ending the cold war proposed by Mr Molotov, Ahe Soviet Foreign Minister, on Thursday. “There is one extremely simple method of bringing an end to what is called the cold war,” said Mr Dulles. “Observe the Charter of the United Nations; refrain from the use of lorce or the threat of force in international relations, and from the support and direction of subversion against the institutions of other countries. “To bring the cold war to an end, seven points are not needed. This one is sufficient.” Mr Dulles said that it was “in that spirit that we go to Geneva for t.ie Big Four conference next month, and we hope to find that spirit shared.” After reviewing progress made in the last year towards resolving such problems as the Korean and IndoChina wars, and the Austrian Treaty, Mr Dulles said: “Much has been accomplished but much more remains. “There exists the problem of German unification. For ten years Germany has been severed from the rest. That unnatural division of a great people constitutes a grave injustice. It i* an evil which cannot be indefinitely prolonged without breeding more evil to plague the world. East European “Servitude” “In Eastern Europe are nations wi‘h a long, proud record of national existence, which are in servitude. They were liberated from one despotism only to be subjected to another, in violation of solemn international undertakings. “In Asia there is the Chinese Communist regime, which became the aggressor in Korea, for which it standi condemned by United Nations. It promoted aggression in Indo-China, and has used force and the threat of force to support its ambitions in the Formosa area. “Recent developments. including the influence of the Bandung conference, suggest that an immediate threat of war may have receded. Let us pray that this is so. But the situation in Asia remains one that cannot be regarded with equanimity. “Also, we cannot forget the existence of that apparatus known as international communism. It constitutes a world-wide conspiracy to bring into power a form of government which never, in any country, at any time, was freely chosen by the people and which destroys the reality of independence. “Finally, there is the urgent problem of limiting the crushing burden of armaments. For many years the United States and its friends have sought ways to carry out the mandate of the Charter to reduce the diversion to armaments of the world ■ human and economic resources. “Nearly a decade ago. the United States made a proposal to internationalise atomic energy. This, if accepted, would have prevented the present competitive production of these weapons of awesome destructive power.” Mr Dulles said that if the Soviet Union shared the United States’ desire for ending the cold war in lhe spirit of the United Nations, they could develop a new impetus to solve world problems.