THE COMMON MAN

New Zealand Herald, Volume 82, Issue 25357, 12 November 1945, Page 5

THE COMMON MAN

DEVISING A POLICY AIMS OF CONFERENCES HOPING FOR AGREEMENTS (Reed. 1.0.10 p.m.) WASHINGTON, Nov. 11 Speaking at the State dinner m honour of Mr .Attlee, President Truman said: "One of the great things about I lie British Empire is that, when they have a foreign policy —and they always have one the British people are behind that foreign policy no matter which Government is in power. "Wo are going at our conferences prayerfully. We are hoping that agreements and policies will come out of the conferences which will make the United Nations Organisation a. living, moving and active programme." Mr Attlee in reply said: "What we need most of all is a universal foreign policy—a foreign policy that is directed not to any immediate aim of any particular country, but a foreign policy that is conceived in the interest of all the world's people. That does not mean that we are not to take into account our particular differences, but it seems to me today that the over-riding interests of world civilisation should come first.'' ■ , Without referring to the atom bomb Mr Anlt'<; said scientific discoveries were transcending the oceans _ and added. "We must not let. anything rob us of our Ireedom and democracy. Hathoi wo must try to see whether we cannot give all the nations that kind .of security in which, through long years on both sides of the Atlantic, we have worked up in practice that most difficult of all forms of government— democracy —about the only form of government that is worthy

of tree men." Mr Attlee urged that in the discussions the parties keep ever in mitid that what they were out for today was to try to devise the world policy of the common man. Mr Truman said he hoped the United States could implement a foreign policy which would be the policy of the people of the United States, not the policy of any political party.