FOREIGN POLICY FOR PEACE

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 89, Issue 267, 12 November 1945, Page 5

FOREIGN POLICY FOR PEACE

AIM OF THE TALKS LEADERS’ SPEECHES

Recd. 11 p.m. Washington, Nov. 11. President Truman, in a speech at the State dinner honouring Mr. Attlee, said: “One of the great things about Ihe 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. We are going at our conference prayerfully. We are hoping that agreements and policies will come out of conferences which will make the United Nations Organisation a living, moving and active programme.” Mr. Attlee, replying, 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 we are not to take into account our particular differences, but it seems to me to-dav that the overriding interests of world civilisation should come first.” Without referring to Ihe atomic bomb. Mr. Attlee said that scientific discoveries were transcending the oceans. “We must not let anything rob us of our freedom and democracy. Rather we must try to see whether we cannot give all the nations that kind of security wherein, through long years on both sides of the Atlantic, we worked up in practice that most difficult of all forms of Government—democracy, about the only form of Government that is worthy of free men.” Mr. Attlee urged that in the discussions the parties keerp ever in mind that what they were out for to-day was to try and devise a 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 particular political party.