Mistrust Between Russia, Allies Preventing True Peace

Northern Advocate, 4 March 1946, Page 5

Mistrust Between Russia, Allies Preventing True Peace

(Received 11.30 a.m.) NEW YORK, March 3

THE “New York Times” Paris correspondent says it is quite apparent that distrust between Moscow and the Western Allies is not only preventing true peace from developing, but at present is tending to rip apart the continent’s great “middle of road” population, herding much of it reluctantly into extreme Left and extreme Right political camps. DICTATORSHIPS THRIVE ♦

It is within such an uneasy atmosphere that dictatorships, both of the Right, like Franco's Spain, and Left, like Tito’s Yugoslavia and Hoxha's Albania, are thriving.

and the sovereignty of individual countries.”

A woman writer in “Junior Fravda" paints a gloomy picture of life in London. She says new hemes are not being built, old homes not repaired, and employment becoming more and more difficult to find.

Important emigre groups, whether they are Leftist, like sections of the Spanish Republicans, or Rightists like General Anders’ Polish Corps, or those thousands of Yugoslavs in Italy and Germany loyal to King Peter's dynasty, are openly talking of Ihe need for organisation in order to benefit by swift action “when war comes.’’

General de Gaulle, who sees nobody but his closest intimates these days, is spending his time in secluded reading.

He has been telling some men that he is convinced there will be war between the United States and Russia. MISTRUST RAMPANT Opinions of this sort, especially when emanating from well-known personalities. rarely reach the public print, but typify the underlying atmosphere of mistrust which is rampant m Europe today, and which also is well known to the Russians as well as to other Allied nations. The “Wall Street Journal’s" Washington correspondent says the United States is reported to have informed Russia that a loan will be made only if the Russians are willing to reverse their effort for a self-contained economic bloc in East Europe and Asia. In other words, Russia will be required to join the International Monetary T und and Bank, and also adhere to United States proposals for minimising international trade barriers. FOUR REQUIREMENTS This means that Russia would also be required: <1) To disclose figures on gold and exchange holdings; *2) reveal details of foreign trade; (3) stabilise the rouble instead of setting arbitrary values to obtain advantages in Balkan trade; (4) release satellites from trade arrangements which directly or indirectly preclude them from trading outside the Russian sphere.

State Department officials indicate that there is seme room for compromise, but not much. They may be willing to allow Russia special trade lelationships with countries on the border, but Russia would be required to renounce any hope of doing in Germany. Czechoslovakia. Turkey and the Middle East what she has done in the Balkans.

The State Department recently asked to see the Balkan agreements to ascertain whether they were incompatible with the United States trade proposals. Officials question whether the countries whose industries and agriculture are so similar wall be able to manage without things customarily bought from Britain and the United States. ANTI-BRITISH CAMPAIGN Moscow newspapers continued their anti-British campaign in today’s issues, says Reuter’s Moscow correspondent. The “New Times" printed, point by point, a criticism of British policy throughout the world. It said that Britain was basing her policy on a principle of supporting “dying reactionary regimes hated by the mass of the peoples. ’

The newspaper discussed British policy in Indonesia, Greece, the Middle East, India. Spain. Italy and Egypt, and said: “British foreign policy is a violation of the rights of small peoples