RUSSIA SENDS MESSAGES Hopes Expressed For Peace
<Rec. 8 p.m.) LONDON, Dec. »L Rulers and statesmen in many lands today greeted the coming New Year with messages of peace, or of hope for the fulfilment of their nation’s aspirations. People in prison were sent a special greeting from the Vatican Radio.
The Soviet leaders once again called for peaceful co-existence. The Soviet President, Marshal Voroshilov, the Communist Party leader, Mr Khrushchev, and the Prime Minister, Marshal Bul-
ganin, sent a New Year message to the Queen today. Moscow Radio said.
The Russian leaders said: "The occasion of the New Year permits us to greet your Majesty family and through you all the people of your great country and to wish you health and happiness, to you personally, and peace and prosperity to the British people." It was announced in London tonight that the Queen had received New Year greetings from President Voroshilov and had sent New Year greetings to him through the Foreign Office. In a message to the British Prime Minister, Mr Macmillan, the Soviet leaders said: "On behalf of the Government of the U.SS.R. and ourselves personally, permit us to greet you on the New Year and wish you good health and happiness and prosperity and a life of peace for the people of Great Britain. “We entertain the hope that in the New Year Great Britain, which plays such an important role in international relations, will take steps, jointly with the US S R, and other peaceable states, to soften the international climate, remove the fear which the people in all lands feel for the future, and create an atmosphere of confidence and businesslike co-operation in relations between our countries, on the basis of the now widely accepted principles of peaceful coexistence." The Russian leaders also sent New Year greetings to France hoping for a radical improvement in the international situation in 1958.
World leaders in many other cities also issued New ' Year messages.
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Press, Volume XCVII, Issue 28474, 2 January 1958, Page 7
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