DIVISION IN EUROPE

Greymouth Evening Star, 31 May 1946, Page 8

DIVISION IN EUROPE

SPHERES MOW MORE CLEARLY MARKED RUSSIA TIGHTENS GRIP LONDON, May 29. “Since the Big Four Foreign Ministers parted at Paris, when they were .unable to adjust their interests in. the Mediterranean and eastern Europe, the Russian Government has been tightening its relations with Eastern European .countries, and simultaneously British and American relations with several countries in the region have deteriorated. The division of Europe is’ becoming more clearly marked,” says the diplomatic correspondent of The Times. Referring to the Notes Britain has sent to Albania’ arid Jugoslavia, ■ the. correspondent adds: “The : Notes may be taken as a sign that neither Britain .nor America is any readier than in Paris to hand over the Julian March to Jugoslavia. “Britain and America have also sent Notes to Rumania requesting that the elections should be held soon, according to the obligations Rumania has undertaken. 'This was done because the' British and United States Governments suspect, that the elections are being purposely delayed to keep a minority Government in power.” MORE ACCUSATIONS BY RUSSIANS NEW YORK, May 30. Mr. Gromyko, Soviet Ambassador in the United States and UNO delegate, speaking at a Russian-American friendship rally, condemned a tendency on the part of “certain nations” to attempt domination of .the United Nations to the detriment of peace and security. He chided some members of the United Nations for talking about interests of small nations, but not fighting the remnants of Fascism. Mr. Gromyko said that, the policy of United Nations domination would possibly cause irreparable harm to all the organisation’s activities and to the whole' cause of maintaining peace and security. “Attempts to use the organisation as a tool in the hands of one country or a small group of countries can lead to far-reaching, undesirable and negative consequences,” he said. “One can perceive in the activities of the United Nations symptoms of a reversion to the old methods of the League of Nations, which proved a failure.” The Russian journalist Ilya Ehrenburg referred to anti-Russian sentiments in the American press. He said that some people in America freely spilt ink in the hope that others might spill blood. Professor Albert Einstein, chided the-United States for failing to make a grand-scale agreement with Russia on which, he said, the world’s peace depended. He added that the only hope of protection against modern war weapons was in securing peace in a super-national way. “A world Government must be created which will be able to solvo conflicts between the nations by judicial decision,” he said. The development, of political relations during the last year had brought the world no nearer the achievement of this goal, said Einstein. “The United Nations as it stands to-day has neither the military force nor the legal basis to accomplish international security.”