MESSAGE TO U.S.

Press, Volume C, Issue 29557, 5 July 1961, Page 15

MESSAGE TO U.S.

Soviet Hope On Peace (N.Z. Pr»«t AMU.— Copyright) HYANNIS PORT 'Massachusetts), July 4. The Soviet Union last night expressed its hope to the United States for a “speedy solution of longstanding problems.’ The Soviet Prime Minister (Mr Khrushchev) and President Brezhnev made the call in a message of congratulations on the one hundred and eighty-fifth aniveraary of the United States Declaration of Independence. The cable, received by President Kennedy last night, said the Soviet leaders hoped for the solution as a result of the recent Vienna meeting of the President and Mr Khrushchev.

President Kennedy replied late last night to the cable but his response would not ba released until it was delivered to the Kremlin in Moscow this morning, the Associated Press said. Text Of Mesaage The White House later released an English translation of the Soviet message, which read: “Dear Mr President: “Personally and on behalf of the Soviet people we send the American people, and to you personally, our sincere congratulations on the occasion of this important date in the life of the American people. namely, the 185th anni veraery of achieving their independence “While sending our congratulations to you today, we want to express the hope that the recent Vienna meeting, and the exchange of opinions which took place there on questions of interest to both countries, will further the mutual efforts of our Governments directed to the urgent solution of problems which long ago became pressing and which the last war left to us after the defeat of the aggressors.

“Hte*ory imposed on our peoples, on their governments and on their leaders an enormous share of the responsibility for the preservation of peace, for the future of humanity. I “In order to carry out this great historical mission, it is i necessary to commence building, from bo'h sides enduring bridges of trust, of mutual understanding and of friendship. "The Soviet Union has always striven and strives now to achieve this aim. “The Soviet and the American people by right must go down in history as the two great peoples who made a decisive contribution to the cause of ensuring permanent peace on earth. (Signed), "N. Khrushchev. L. Brezhnev, The Kremlin, July 3. 1961." The President also was aware that the Soviet newspaper “Izvestia” greeted July 4 by saying the United States had “made a mockery" of the Declaration of Independence by becoming “a bastion of world reaction . . . the America of the Rockefellers and Morgana, the Trumans and Dulleses,” United Press International reported.

Whether the Soviet newspaper article would draw any specific action from the President was doubtful, the agency said Aide Memoire

More substantive, and tn the immediate future, was the forthcoming United States reply to the recent Soviet Aide Memoire in which the Soviet Union took an adamant stand on Berlin and its intention to conclude a separate peace treaty with East Germany. Meanwhile, President Kennedy planned to celebrate July 4 today with a family yacht trip.

Power-boat cruising and sailing have been the President’s main form of recreation during the long holiday week-end He planned a cruise today aboard his fathers’ 52-foot cabin cruiser, the Marlin, before flying back to Washington early tomorrow morning.