IMPARTIAL FRIENDSHIP

Manawatu Standard, Volume LXV, Issue 184, 5 July 1945, Page 5

IMPARTIAL FRIENDSHIP

UNITED STATES POLICY. WASHINGTON, July 4. The State Department set forth today its policy of impartial friendliness towards Britain and Russia and restated its dedication to the principles of the Atlantic Charter and its determination to pursue an active course in international affairs aimed at the achievement of America’s own ends. Replying to a group of Congressmen who asked a specific question about United States foreign policy, Mr Charles Grew said: “It can be stated unequivocally that the United States Government lias no tacit understanding or day-to-day working arrangements through which it has become do facto or otherwise part of a BritishAmerican front or any other front against the Soviet Union. “Conversely, there is no truth, in the assertions that we are playing into the hands of the Soviet to the detriment of the British Empire or any other nations.’-’ He said reports that old anti-Soviet prejudices were still cJuijrr to by d group within the State Department had no foundation in fact. American policy respecting the I olish and general Kastcrn Ituropcan epicstions. had remained unchanged since President Roosevelt’s death. It continued, as it was under 1 resident Roosevelt, to be based on the decisions of the Crimea Conference as well as on his programme for the attainment by the peoples of the world of the Four Freedoms.