WHOSE TURN NEXT?

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 22585, 13 March 1948, Page 5

WHOSE TURN NEXT?

W. EUROPE'S QUERY FENCE-SITTING DANGER UNITY NOW URGENT (11 a.m.) LONDON. March 12 •v. The tragic events in Czechoslovakia have brought a new sense of urgency to the movement for a Western Union-, said the Attorney-Generai. Sir Hartley Shawcross, in a speech today. “The iron curtain is moved further westwards," he added. “The lights of freedom have gone out. Darkness and terror have spread across the land. The peoples of Western Europe ask whose turn it will be next.

Sir Hartley Shawcross, who said he was violently pro-Russian three years ago, added that the Communists hoped to promote economic chaos and political instability to enable them to seize power and dominate Europe without a war.

“With my Russian colleagues, I prosecuted the Nazis at Nuremberg and condemned Nazi aggression and terror. I feel shame and humiliation now to see, under a- different name, the same aims pursued and the satne technique followed without check.

“The European nations must realise that they can sit on the fence no longer or, one by one, they will fall off the fence into the pit that the totalitarian are preparing! for democracy.