PROPOSAL THAT TRUMAN TRY TO MEET STALIN

Wanganui Chronicle, 30 March 1948, Page 5

PROPOSAL THAT TRUMAN TRY TO MEET STALIN

CiqSuXdoa— v’d’Z’N) Reed. 5 p.m. New York, March 28 An appeal to President Truman to try to meet Marshal Stalin to make a last effort ft) reach an understanding with him before the “world plunges over the precipice into an unspeakable third world war,” was made in a broadcast today by Senator. Claude Pepper (Democrat, Florida). Senator Pepper said that at such a meeting, Truman should present an American plan for peace discussed in advance with Congress leaders, and if Stalin rejected it, then the Americans would know they, at least, had done what they could do to prevent war. Pepper, who talked with Stalin in Moscow in 1946, and has often been called an apologist for Russia, declared today: “The Soviet has been guilty of aggression, which offends and affronts our sense of independence and dignity, and l/’eedom for all peoples throughout the world.” Deneying that he was an appeaser, Pepper said. “But •! know the horror of war with modern weapons, and don’t want to see the youth of America butchered in another war if there is any way to ' prevent it.”