Nash's Views On Russia
(Special) AUCKLAND. This Day.; The Minister of Finance (Mr Nash) j cannot see a way to solve the Las-1 sian problem, but believes that, there | is a way other than war. He said this in an address to the Auckland Creditmen’s Club yesterday, j TTp.losq there was greater under-j standing and penetration of the "iron curtain' there was the danger of war j with Russia, ho said. 1 Nobody knew in its fulness what, the Soviet Union wanted to do. How to go on the road to win understanding with Russia, Mr Naslt could not say. but trust of Russia was necessary. i While he believed the Russian people the Czars, he was certain the Russian r.ff than they were under form of Government could not give to English-speaking countries the, freedom they wanted. "We cannot afford to allow their j way to prevail in our part of the j world, yet it seems that they want to | encroach on our part, and endanger j it,’’ he added. It v'"s to make Russia un- : derstand the Western Democracies, but that, end could not be achieved by making belligerent speeches against her.
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Northern Advocate, 6 November 1946, Page 2
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