RIVAL IDEOLOGIES

Evening Star, Issue 25730, 1 March 1946, Page 6

RIVAL IDEOLOGIES

DEMOCRACY AND COMMUNISM GAN LIVE TOGETHER IN HARM Or) Y WASHINGTON, February 28. Senator A. H. Vandenberg (Republican, Michigan), reporting to the Senate on the United Nations meeting, said: The world to-day is asking what is Russia up to? He added: It would be entirely futile to blink the fact that two great rival ideologies —democracy in the West and Communism in the themselves confronted. There is desperate need for understanding for peace. Senator Vandenberg declared that " Russia and America can live together in reasonable harmony if the United States speaks as plainly upon all occasions as Russia does, and sustains its purposes and ideals as vigorously as Russia. . The United States should abandon the fiction encouraged by our fellow travellers, that peace is jeopardised by candour. We must say only what we mean, and mean every word we say." Commenting on Russia's action on Lebanon and Syria, Senator Vandenberg said M. Vyshinsky seemed less interested in helping Lebanon and Syria than in baiting" Britain and Prance, less interested in peace than in friction. He added: " But that is what the United Nations forum is for. All should be free to speak."