N.Z. DELEGATE ATTACKED AS A WARMONGER

Greymouth Evening Star, 29 September 1950, Page 6

N.Z. DELEGATE ATTACKED AS A WARMONGER

MEW YORK, September 27.—New Zealand's delegate, Sir Carl Bcrendsen, was called a war propagandist by the Byelorussian Foreign Minister (Mr Kuzma Kisselev), speaking in the United Nations Assembly today. Mr Kisselev, attacking Sir Carl Berendsen’s speech in the Assembly kk-t week, said: ”It would be right if we pul Sir Carl Berendsen on the list of propagandists for a new war. “The representative of New Zealand not only did not recognise and accept, the decisions of the Assembly wilh regard to prohibition of propaganda for a new war, but. he took the libevtv to make an appeal for war in this very hall. We must condemn such a statement in the way it deserves.’’

Similarly challenging ihe Australian delegate's speech, Mr Kisselev said Mr Spender had “directed a crude slander againsl the Soviet Union and the countries of the peoples’ domociucie.-: ”

Mr Kisselev said: “Such statements are well known to us.. They do not aspire to international co-operation. “The delegate of Australia, to put it mildly, did not speak the truth when he contended that the Soviet Union does not carry out a pacific policy. Air Spender, in his crude detached way. condemned, vitiated and warped the foreign policy of the Soviet Union."