STALIN'S PEACE PLAN

Grey River Argus, 20 March 1945, Page 3

STALIN'S PEACE PLAN

Kill 50,000 Prussians ! (Rec. 8.15.) NEW YORK, March 18. Senator Barkies, majority leader in the United States Senate, addressing the United States Foreign Policy Association, told them that at a dinner at Teheran in 1943, Mr. Stalin made a speech, in which he said that the only way to guarantee that there would be no future wars was to kill fifty thousand war makers in Prussia. Mr. Churchill had replied that Britain could not consent to such treatment. England, he said, threatened those conquered with humanity. Anything else was contrary to the English tradition. President Roosevelt had said that he could understand both viewpoints, but that he thought Mr. Stalin’s figure was a little high. Mr. Stalin replied: “All right, I will reduce the figure—to forty-nine thousand.” CAUSE OF WAR , THE POPE'S ADDRESS LONDON. March 18 Pope Pius XII yesterday (Passion Sunday) addressed a large congregation in St. Peter’s Square, in Rome. The Pope declared: “War is the fruit of sin. There is but one road to salvation —to repudiate once and for all the idolatry of extreme nationalism; pride of tribe or race; blood covetousness, and worship ot worldly good; and turn resolutely to the spirit of Christian brotherhood, based on the common worship of our Heavenly Father. Reconciliation of the peoples of the world must be based on justice, brotherhood and solid peace.” MAKING OF PEACE. NOT ’FRISCO JOB. (Rec. 8.55.) WASHINGTON, Mar. 19. Senator Vandenberg has filed with the U.S. State Department personal suggestions for an amendment to the Dumbarton Oaks Agreement, including a provision for the review of wartime political decisions which are likely to threaten peace in the future. Senator Vandenberg said that his proposed amendments would not be published as yet, but they would be discussed by United Nations delegates at the San Francisco Conference. He added that that conference would face the tremendous responsibility of deciding whether the proposed international organisation would be limited in its operation to enforcement of the peace table decisions without any change. “Peace making and peace keeping are two totally different functions,” he said. “The San Francisco Conference is dealing only with peace keeping. It must be followed by another conference which does the actual peace making.”