MISSION TO MOSCOW
PROFESSOR LASKES PROPOSAL
PAVING WAY FOR EASTWEST PEACE MEETING
Rec. 11 p.m NEW YORK, Mar. 26. Professor Harold Laski', the British economist and former British Labour Party chairman, pi-oposed to-day that Lord Mountbatten. General Eisenhower and other western' leaders should be sent to Moscow to pave the way for an east-west peace meeting in Stockholm. Professor Laski, who is visiting, the United States for a lecture tour, suggested that other members should be Mr Halvard Lange, the Norwegian
Foreign Minister, and M. Leon Blum, the French Socialist. He added that they would be given the task of laying the basis for a meeting between Mr Truman. Mr Stalin, Mr Attlee and Dr Queuille, the French Prime Minister. Professor Laski said: “ I would go on my knees to Moscow if I could make them understand, without sacrificing any of my principles, that we want peace. If the world calls it appeasement, I do not care.”
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 27041, 28 March 1949, Page 5
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