THREAT OF WAR LESS NOW THAN SIX MONTHS AGO

Wanganui Chronicle, 31 October 1950, Page 5

THREAT OF WAR LESS NOW THAN SIX MONTHS AGO

LONDON, Oct 30 (P.ecd 6 pm).— Provided the United Nations continue to show they could stand firm against aggression, world war was less prob■able (han it was six months ago, Sir Hartley Shawcross, the AttorneyGeneral told the United Nations Association meeting. Sir Hartley Shawcross said he had always held that a world war was not inevitable. After the events of the last four months with the steps taken to strengthen the military defences of the free world, he believed that with even more confidence.

“Communists now know that the United Nations mean business, and can do business.” he said. “The dangers ahead are still great and the difficulties enormous, but already one detects a slightly different note in voices from the Cominform countries.” The more hopeful outlook in international affairs was due to the courageous and statesmanlike lead of the United States, which had done more than anything else to enable the United Nations to play their now increasingly effective part. In a tribute to President Truman, Sir Hartley said his address to the Uuit\.d Nations Assembly was full of humanity and understanding, the speech of one whose name would appear in the history not only of his own country but of the word as one of the great statesmen of the century.— (N.Z.P.A.).