Truman Increased Peace Prospects

Northern Advocate, 15 March 1947, Page 5

Truman Increased Peace Prospects

CHURCHILL SAYS

(Received 10.30 a.m.) LONDON, March 14. MR CHURCHILL, addressing the Conservative Council Conference, said he felt it necessary to comment on President Truman’s declaration. “No step taken recently has more increased the chances ot maintaining world peace and world freedom.” he said. “If the United States had taken such a step before the last war, or before 1914, peace might have been preserved, and we should all be living in a far happier world.” Mr Churchill added that British and American policies were ones of friendship towards Russia, but friendship from strength, not appeasement from weakness.

The Moscow newspaper Tzvestia, in a front-page editorial article, says Mr Truman’s speech indicates new American interference in the business of other states.

gentina and China if we are to prove the validity of Western capitalist democracy.” The former Secretary of Commerce (Mr Henry Wallace), who resigned from the Cabinet on September 20 at President Truman’s request, because he disagreed with Mr Trumans foreign policy, gave a broadcast address on the new American development.

It adds that America’s claims for leadership in international affairs grows in keeping with the appetites of interested American circles. Mr Truman, in his speech, says the paper, fails to take into consideration that the old methods of colonisers and hard-headed politicians are out-dated and doomed to failure. After asking what will be left of Greece’s sovereignty following American intervention, it says the longsuffering Greeks aro- to be faced with the replacing of one master, England, by another —America. COVER FOR EXPANSION

He said Mr Truman's statement marked a turning point in American history, because the crisis faced was not a Greek crisis but an American crisis. Mr Wallace-added that the proposal was one for America to "police Russia’s every border.” He asked: “How does support given to the undemocratic Governments of Greece and Turkey aid the cause of freedom?” Russia may be poor and unprepared, he said, but she knew very well how to reply to Mr Truman’s declaration of economic and financial pressure. CENTURY OF FEAR’ He predicted that the new policy would spread Communism in Europe and Asia. He added that the policy showed that no regime was “too reactionary for us provided it stands in Russia’s expansionist path.” and that no coun--1 try was too remote to serve as the scene of a contest “which may widen until it becomes a world war.” Mr Wallace said the President had “summoned in a century of fear” and had undermined Mr Marshall's mission at the Moscow conference. The United Nations should have been asked to investigate the matter and I that Mr Truman, in by-passing the United Nations, was greatly weakenJing that organisation.

American aid to Turkey is obviously directed toward subordinating Turkey's internal and external policies to American control. Referring to Mr Truman’s reference to totalitarianism, the paper says Hitler also referred to Bolsheviks when he wanted to blast a path for himself.

Mr Truman’s reference to totalitarian states is an attempt to make a great noise to cover up the United States’ expansionist plans. The New York Herald-Tribune says the new policy is a challenge to test the relative effectiveness —politically, economically and socially—of the Russian and Western systems. •'There is no more danger of war with Russia than before Mr Truman’s 1 message was delivered.’’ adds the paper. there is probably a good deal less. TURNING POINT “We must work constantly to ameli- ! orate places like Greece, Spain, Ar-