Mr Khrushchev

Press, Volume XCVII, Issue 28550, 1 April 1958, Page 3

Mr Khrushchev

Sir,—ln your leading article this morning you are trying to build up hate against Mr Khrushchev by suggesting that he has all the sinister qualities of a dictator. Actually the head of the U.S.S.R. can be removed at any time by the vote of the Assembly, which is more than can be done in Britain, where an outmoded government continues to hold office against the will of the majority of the people. On May 9, 1945, the Prime Minister of Britain, Mr Winston Churchill, in a message to Marshal Stalin, wrote, “I send you heartfelt greetings on the splendid victory you have won in driving the invader from your soil, and laying the Nazi tyrant low. It is my firm belief that on friendship and understanding between the British and Russian peoples depends the future of mankind.” How times have changed!—Yours, etc.,

March 31. 1958. (We hope, but not with any confidence, that “P.J.A.” will read the Churchill memoirs, vvhere he will find how the sincere efforts of Britain and her allies during the war and immediate post-war years to promote friendship and understanding between the British and Russian peoples were thwarted by the Russian leaders’ determination to bring Europe under Communit control.—Ed., ‘‘The Press.”]