Stalin Accuses British And U.S. Leaders Of Warmongering

Wanganui Chronicle, 30 October 1948, Page 5

Stalin Accuses British And U.S. Leaders Of Warmongering

His Implication Was That There Would Not Be Another War

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LONDON. Oct. 28.—Stalin today accused the British and American leaders of following a policy of aggression to unleash a new war. De implied, however, that he did not think there would be another war, says the British United Press Moscow correspondent. ,

Keplying to questions by the newspaper “Pravda” on how he regarded the conduct of the western representatives in the United Nations debate on Berlin, Stalin said: “It was a display of aggression on the part of the British, American and French ruling circles.”

Replying to the question whether an unofficial agreement on Berlin had been reached in Paris, Stalin said the American and British representatives had once again dec.ared the agreement null and void. Stalin said that Mr. Churchill waj the main instigator of a new war. “He has already deprived himself of his nation's trust and that of the democratic forces throughout the world," said Stalin. "The horrors of the recent war are still too fresh in the people's memory and public forces favouring peace are too strong for Churchill’s scruples and aggression to overpower them and set a course for a new war.”

Stalin alleged'that war instigators did not want an agreement with Russia. They talked qbout it, but prevented it so as to prove that cooperation was impossible. Asked about the conduct of the representatives of the six non-perman-ent nations on the Security Council, Stalin said: “Those gentlemen obviously are lending support to a policy of aggression and a policy of unleashing a new war.” Reuter’s Moscow correspondent says that Stalin accused the British and American leaders of a policy of aggression and preparation for a new war, but said: “It can only end by the warmongers' downfall.” MOSCOW AGREEMENT

Stalin said he regarded the results of the Security Council discussion on Berlin and the attitude of the British

iand American representatives as a manifestation of the aggressiveness 'of the British, American and French I ruling circles’ policy. An agreement I had been reached on August 30 in 'Moscow between the representatives of Russia, the United States, Britain land France on the simultaneous carrying out of measuresjor the removal . of communication restrictions and the i introduction in Berlin of the German l mark of the Soviet zone as the sole I currency. This agreement did not in- | fringe on anyone's prestige. It took j account of the interests of the parties to it and guaranteed the possibility of further co-operation, but the Governments eft' the United States and Britain had disavowed their representatives in Moscow and declared this agreement non-existent. They had violated it by deciding to put questions before the Security Council, where the British and Americans always had an assured majority. • Stalin said that recently in Paris, when the Berlin question was being discussed by the Security Council, an agreement was reached in unofficial talks before the Security Council voted on the subject. Senor Bramuglia, who had an unofficial talk with Mr. Vyshinsky on behalf of the other interested Powers, had !n hand an agreed draft solution of the Berlin question, but the Unitec States and British representatives had again declared that this agreement was non-existent. “The whole point is that the inspires of the aggressive policy of the United States and Britain do not consider themselves interested in agreement and co-operation with Russia,” said Stalin. “A policy of agreement with Russia undermines the warmongers’ position and deprives these gentlemen’s aggressive policy of its objective “By their actions in the Security Council. China, Belgium. Argentina, Columbia and Chile also obviously support aggression. All this can end only with the disgraceful downfall of these instigators of a new war.”