“Jekyll And Hyde” Of Soviet Policy

Press, Volume CI, Issue 29763, 5 March 1962, Page 13

“Jekyll And Hyde” Of Soviet Policy

<N.Z.P.A.-Reuter—Copyright) LONDON, March 3, The West must face the Jekyll and Hyde personality of Soviet policy with its own dual policy, Britain’s Foreign Secretary, Lord Home, said today.

There must be firmness toward Mr Hyde and friendship to Dr. Jekyll, he said. Such a double policy would have to be dealt with for a “long time ahead,” he added.

Lord Home was speaking at a Conservative Association meeting at Newcastle-on-Tyne. Giving instances of Russia’s dual policy and her interpretation of coexistence, he said:

“For them, peaceful coexistence includes the hours of daily venom broadcast against our CENTO allies, Turkey and Iran. “It includes the Communist take-over bid in the early days of chaos in the Congo, which was frustrated just in the nick of time by the United Nations. “It includes the subversion of South Vietnam by armed forces trained, supplied and organised from North Vietnam, who are at present murdering South Vietnamese officials at the rate of 2000 a year or about 40 a week. “It combines a professed desire to reach a settlement in Berlin with building the Berlin wall and harrassing air traffic in the corridors. "It includes the destruction and occupation of Tibet"

Referring to Laos, Lord Home said: Why do you think there is today a ceasefire in Laos, with the prospect of a genuine peace under a united government? “It is simply because the Communists realised that the policies they were pursuing

were leading direct to a war between the Powers, which might easily escalate into a nuclear conflagration. “They did not like the prospect. They saw it in time. The nuclear weapon deterred them. And now we have the prospect of peace.” Referring to the forthcoming Geneva disarmament negotiations, he said: “All depends on Russia’s ability to cure herself of her obsession that inspection is the equivalent of espionage."

Success or failure of the 18-Power conference, opening in Geneva on March 14. would hinge on Russia’s decision whether she could allow that degree of Inspection which was necessary to do three things:

To verify that the weapons which it is agreed should be destroyed are destroyed or the men to be demobilised are in fact disbanded. To verify that the weapons which have been destroyed are not replaced To verify the total of what is left Lord Home said Britain and the United States were willing to agree to such inspection as was needed to give confidence that the disarmament measures to which they subscribed were carried through U-2 Missing.—A high-flying U-2 “spy” plane is missing and presumed down somewhere in a rugged region of mountains and desert, near Edwards Air Force Base.