PROSPECT OF PEACE

Press, Volume XCIV, Issue 28157, 21 December 1956, Page 13

PROSPECT OF PEACE

Reported Views Of Churchill (N.Z. Press Association—Copyright) (Rec. 11.30 p.m.) CORDELE (Georgia), Dec. 19. Senator Walter George predicted today that the world will enjoy relative peace for at least another century, and said his belief is shared by Sir Winston Churchill. But Senator George said this relative peace was contingent upon maintaining and strengthening the bond of unity established through the North Atlantic Treaty Organise ton among ‘‘the English-speaking peoples of the earth and their friends.” The retiring senator, who has been named President Eisenhower’s personal ambassador to NATO, made the statement in an impromptu address to the Cordele Rotary Club. Senator George said he and Sir Winston Churchill reached mutual agreement on peace prospects during a discussion at the former British Prime Minister’s estate last autumn. He said he thought the greatest tragedy of the century is “that Churchill cannot go back 10 or 20 or 30 years in age and lead Europe through this crucial period.” Referring to the Suez situation, he said Egypt’s President Nasser appeared to him to be “a third-rate Hitler.” Colonel Nasser had written a book “which reads like an amateur version of ‘Mein Kampf.’”