Are Russians Turning Against Kremlin Policy?

Grey River Argus, 30 October 1948, Page 5

Are Russians Turning Against Kremlin Policy?

(Rec. 10.50). NEW YORK, Oct. 29. The Nev/ York press generally regards M. Stalin’s statement in Pravda as a possible defensive move. The New York Times says: It there is one bright aspect, it is that M. Stalin finds it necessary to defend his policy, not only before the world, but also before his own people, who must be reassured that public forces favouring peace are too strong to be defied. But these public forces are, in fact, represented, not by Russia, but by the United Nations, with whom Russia alone is out of step”. The New York Herald Tribune says: “The hollowness of the Russian arguments on Berlin is nakedly Obvious, and M. Stalin has resorted to ‘a little thunder off the stage to distract atteThenNew York Daily News says: "We think that M. Stalin is peddling propaganda about Russia's love of peace and about the Western Powers thirst for war in the hope of getting his own snout out of the wringer of public opinion”.