May Not Wait For Soviet Cooperation

Northern Advocate, 4 June 1947, Page 5

May Not Wait For Soviet Cooperation

UNITED STATES

(Received 11.30 a.m.) WASHINGTON, June 3. A WARNING that the United States might soon be forced to sign separate treaties with Germany and Austria and conclude a pact for atomic energy control without Russia’s consent, was given in the United States Senate today by the chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee (Senator Vandenberg). He urged speedy ratification of peace treaties with Italy, Bulgaria, Hungary and Rumania.

He said: “Some day we shall get the German and Austrian treaties, even if, unhappily, we are forced by circumstances to organise peace in cur own zones alone.

“We cannot wait too much longer for Soviet cooperation and consent in stabilising Western and Central Europe. “We cannot wait indefinitely to stabilise relationships among those who substantially think alike —and this includes control of atomic energy.”

THIS SIDE OF CERTAIN He said common consent and cooperation were still infinitely preferable, but the United States- and those

who thought as she did, were entitled to as much freedom of action on .their side of the iron curtain as the Soviet* and their satellites had assumed, often coercively, on theirs. “Powerful organised movements have besieged Senators with appeals for rejection or delay of ratification of the Italian treaty, but if we refuse ratification we leave Italy at the mercy of Communist propaganda which can tear to shreds any further concept of American democratic good faith,” he said. “It would create\major doubts all over the world whether the United States could in future be counted on , to keep its word.”