Soviet "Peace" Talk Is "Trojan Dove“-Acheson

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXVII, Issue 23288, 24 June 1950, Page 5

Soviet "Peace" Talk Is "Trojan Dove“-Acheson

CIO a.m.) NEW YORK, June 23. The Secretary of State, Dir. Dean Acheson, yesterday described the Communist ‘‘peace’’ propaganda campaign as a Trojan dove manoeuvre.

He said the efforts to resolve RussianAmerican differences would be useless until the Soviet leaders genuinely accepted a live-and-let-live philosophy. Mr. Acheson was addressing the Harvard University celebration meeting at Cambridge, Massachusetts. He said that war was not inevitable. The possibility of reaching a settlement with Russia would increase as the Soviet leaders came to appreciate that their analysis of the world situation and policies flowing from it were incorrect. "It is the determined purpose of this country and of like-minded nations working with us to prevent war. We do not arm for the purpose of conquest. Our strength is essential to the progressive and successful resoltion oi the difficulties which _ today beset the international community.

"Until the Soviet leaders do genuinely accept a. live-and-let-live philosophy then no approach from the free world, however imaginative, and no Trojan dove from the Communist movement will help to resolve our mutual problems.”

The United States, through diplomatic channels and the United Nations, would continue to keep open every possibility for adjustment of differences.

Mr. Acheson reviewed the uncooperative attitude of Russia since the United Nations Charter was signed in 1945.

“Wherever the force of Soviet arms prevailed, the Soviet Union would take over virtual control,” he said. “Where the Soviet armed forces could not reach the international Communist movement was used to gain control by subversion.” However, the North Atlantic community had rapidly emerged as a political reality. West Europe’s economic recovery was forging ahead at an unprecedented rate. These achievements showed determination that Russia “shall not, by coercion or subversion, destroy the independence of the free States.”