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preached the Soviet Union violates
only the interests of England and
not of America"
Churchill Mission "No Mystery"
The writer, a 70-year- old Soviet
historian, who has much prestige in
the Soviet Union, insinuated that
the British Labor government is
behind Mr.. Churchill by declaring
that Mr.. Churchill and Foreign Sec
rotary Ernest Bevin were encourage
Ing Russia's southern neighbors,
where, he said, there is a bad
impasse."
Saying Mr.. Churchin's mission to
the United States was no mystery,
Tarle asserted: Churchill called
upon the United States to concluded
without losing a single minute,
very close military alliance with
Britain COMMUNICATING the Soviet
Uniors."
Tarle reviewed British American
relations going back to the period
when America was British colony,
touching on the time the British
burned Washington and mentioned
British support of the Southern
States on the slavery issue.
But in our Russian American
tradition nothing similar ever hap
pened," he said. Relations between
Russia and America have been I'M
alterably friendly and if one would
take the same years of the American
Civil<War Russia appeared to be the
only one of the great powers which
took a completely neutral position
to Palmerston British Prime Min
isteD and Napoleon III who sup
ported the Southern slave owners"
England Does Not Want Fight"
Tarle touched on the question of
the worlds newest weapon" He
said Mr.. Churchill wants very much
to convince his audience that there
Is still monopoly of this weapon.
eff old Bernard Shaw is to be
believed" said Tarle, then Church.
i'll is late, and no kind of alarms,
although they be prophetically more
powerful than jeremiah and sweeter
than Psalm-singing King David, will
help here. The Idea of the laconic
statement of Shaw can then per-
hapS seemingly be expressed more
broadly thus-inasmuch as England
cannot fight earlier than within five
years, the eloquence of Churchill
should not disturb the mind very
much.
eve think first of all that Eng
land does not want to fight. To-
days England-e1at is, not the
country of Churchill or even of
those diplomats who through mex
periences suppose that a table
should be hammered without SPAR
ing ones flst-will not help very
much in diplomatic conflicts.
Denies "World Dominion" Aim.
But if England, the people of DEM
ocratic, intelligent England, does not
desire that she, on the basis of in
vented fear and frightened with
foolish phantoms, be precipitated
into new catastrophe, then hardly
will America, which remains more
aloof from these phantoms than
England, be frightened by the pro-
phetic shouts of Churchill"
Tarle said, 1--WE will know that
the Soviet Union is not driving for
any world dominion for which it is
reproached by Churchill who, of
course, does not believe this strange
nonsense himself. But we know this,
that the Soviet Union has decided
to soundly secure all of her frontiers
and, secondly, that in her efforts
towards this most legitimate and
necessary aim she will not yield to
any kind of threat, any kind of
cunning, but will continue on
her way not turning aside, not
making attempts on foreign interests
and not yielding ours"
In broadcast last night, the Mos
COW radio said Mr.. Churchill is a
spokesman for reactionary forces
which want to create intrigue and
provocation against the peace and
security of the world"
The broadcast said elections
scheduled for March 81 in Greece
are being rushed under foreign pa
tronage" in order to stif1e "a really
free expression of the peoples will"
Tns commentator maintained that
the Greek government was deter
mind to hold the elections on the
scheduled date ION instructions
from London" despite the request
of Leftist elements in Greece for q
postponement.
1T is very obvious" the COM
mentator said, "how little truth
there is in Churchill's recent state
ment that only in Greece, under
the supervision of the British, Amer
lean and French, are the people
able to decide their fate at the polls.
Actually the people Of Greece
have been denied the most elemen-
tarY requirements of demncracu.