Russian Delegate's Attack On The Pact

Wanganui Chronicle, 16 April 1949, Page 5

Russian Delegate's Attack On The Pact

NEW YORK, April 13.—Andrei Gromyko (Russia) today launched a full-scale attack in the United Nations General Assembly on the North Atlantic Pact. He called it “evidence that the ruling circles of the United States and Britain have reverted to the old anti-Soviet course in foreign policy, aimed at isolating the Soviet Union.” Gromyko, speaking in a debate on the limitation of the veto, said the North Atlantic group countries were being set up as an instrument to enforce United States and British domination over other countries and peoples. "Such an alliance would be unnecessary if it were not for this de-

sire to establish Anglo-American, domination by force,” he added. “The Soviet Union will continue to uphold consistently the basic principles of the United Nations, being convinced that this corresponds to the interests of the peoples of all countries. It will continue to expose the aggressive plans of warmongers. The struggle around the question of the veto is the struggle between two tendencies in international politics: firstly, a tendency to dictate, to isolate the U.S.S.R., and to unleash a new war; secondly, a tendency to uphold the basic principles of the United Nations, to frustrate the plans of aggressors, and to unmask war-mongers.