SOVIET COLONEL’S BITTER ATTACK ON MR CHURCHILL

Greymouth Evening Star, 21 May 1949, Page 6

SOVIET COLONEL’S BITTER ATTACK ON MR CHURCHILL

LONDON, May 20.—Charging Mr Winston Churchill with “self adulation” and hypocrisy in his war memoirs, the Moscow Radio broadcast a bitter attack upon Britain and its war-time leader in’ the form ol a review .of the second volume of Mr Churchill’s memoirs by a Soviet colonel named Borisenko. This claimed that the British-French foreign policy before the war was aimed at provoking a conflict had begun ruling circles in both England and France still hoped they could reach a secret agreement with the Germans and so switch, the full weight of Nazi aggression against Russia. Mr Churchill’s chief purpose m his memoirs, alleged Colonel Borisenko, was to exonerate the British ruling circles and himself personally from responsibility for the del eat of France. Britain was only saved from a German invasion, .after the fall of France by the war effoi'ts of the Soviet Union. Finally, Colonel Borisenko accused the French leaders of ignoring the lessons of the Second World Wai, and of preparing to fight against Russia. .