NOT INCREASED

Otago Daily Times, Issue 26772, 15 May 1948, Page 7

NOT INCREASED

HOPES FOR EVENTUAL PEACE RECENT EXCHANGE OF NOTES MR TRUMAN'S COMMENT N.Z.P.A.—Copyright LONDON, May 13. President Truman told a press conference in Washington to-day that his hopes for eventual peace have not been increased by the recent exchange of Notes with Russia. The President said he was supporting to the limit the statement by the Secretary of State. Mr George Marshall; that what was needed was action, rather than general talks. He added that Mr Marshall thorougly covered the situation as left by the exchange of Notes between Russia and the United States. President Truman repeated what he said often before—that he would be glad to meet Mr Stalin in Washington.

Berlin Press Attack The Russian-licensed newspapers in Berlin attacked Mr Marshall’s statement on the talks between the United States and Russia. The Berliner Zeitung said Mr Marshall’s rejoinder to Mr Molotov was “ a blow in the face to all men who honestly and sincerely wish to see peace established.” G. B. Shaw Intervenes The N.Z.P.A. special correspondent cables: Under the title “Front Bench Nonsense,” Mr George Bernard Shaw contributes a leader-page article to the Labour Party organ, the Daily Herald, vigorously attacking Mr Attlee and Mr Ernest Bevin, particularly with respect to the Government’s foreign policy and attitude to Russia. , As Mr Shaw reserves world copyright of the article, extracts cannot be quoted, but the Herald, in a leading article, describes some of his statements as “unjust, misleading, and mischievous.” It adds that it published the article in fairness to Mr Shaw, but comments: “ His distortion makes us wonder whether the article is meant to be taken seriously.” Communist Paper’s Comment

The New York Communist newspaper, the Daily Worker, under a frontpage headline, “Marshall Spurns Soviet Peace Talks,” says: “Washington says, ‘No’ to peace. Have American people ever been, treated to such a shameful spectacle as the one Washington is now putting on in face of a ‘ peace threat' of the Soviet Union? ”