Evening star., 1947-10-18
Sta|in Is Quoted
As Wishing 10
Settle Issues
8 Touring Loberites
Say He Shows No
Thoughts of War
By the Associated Press

WARSAW, Oct. 18.-Eight La
bor members of the British
Parliament say Prime Minister
Stain told them when they Wis
tied him in Russia recently thai
he wished to resolve political
and economic issues with the
United States and Britain and
impressed them as having nc
thought of war.
Can Associated Press dispatch
from Warsaw originally quoted
the Britons as saying Mr.. Sta
lin told them he had no thought
of making war No direct quo
tation was supplied on this angle,
however. and the statement was
revised later to say Mr.. Stain
impressed them as having no
thought of war;
Konni Zilliacus, head of the
eight-man British delegation, said
last night that Mr.. Stain added
that if America and Britain did
not want to settle differences I'VE
shall wait until they regain their
reason"
The parliamentary group-flown
to Mr.. Stalin's villa at Sochi on the
Black Sea after tour of Moscow
to study Russian trade unions and
factories-quoted the Prime Min
lister as saying in a two-hour in
terview:
I'VE want as close trade relations
with Great Britain as possible. We
are interested in the development
of trade relations between our two
countries.
THE sooner the two states agree
the better for good partners in
common work.
Just as the Soviet Union has
always stood for improvement of
political and economic relations
with all countries, so it now stands
for such improvement, beginning
with the United States and Great
Britain.
If these countries wish to i'm
prove relations with the Soviet
Union, they will be welcomed. We
shall be prepared to go forward to
meet them irrespective of what the
economic setup may be in those
countries.
"Co-operation between countries
having different economic systems
is possible. That already has been
proved by experience.
Will Wait for Reason,
IT, however, they do not want
to improve their relations with the
Soviet Union, we shall have to do
without them. We shall never
theless be able to carry on.
I'VE will wait until they regain
their reason and understand CO.
operation between Nations is neces-
sary. We can wait. We are a
patient people"
Gn Washington, Mr.. Stalin's
remarks were received with eau
tious reserve. One reaction was
that 1T will be interesting" to
see whether his words are trans
lated into more cooperative ac-
ton" by the Soviet delegation to
the United Nations.
american Government lead
ers have expressed themselves as
fairly certain that Russia does
not want and will not risk a war
at this time, although they are
equally convinced the Russians
will press their aims by every
political means available up to
the point of an open and formal
break with the United States.
I'm London the British Foreign
Office said 1--WE also are most
anxious to trade.'D
Called Answer to Threat.
Mr. Zilliacus, a leader of the Brit
ish Labor Party's left wing, told a
news conference here earlier that the
creation of a Communist "informa-
ton bureau" in Belgrade by the
Communist Parties of nine Euro
pean nations was an answer to what
he termed the threat of American
and pressue on Europe.
He asserted that the American
Congress probably would not approve
any further credits to Britain "ex-
cept under intolerable political con-
ditions."
Mr.. zilliacus said that before see
ing Mr.. Stain the parliamentary
group had three hour talk with
Soviet Foreign Minister Molotov.
The legislators, who will 60 to
Lower Silesia today and then fly to
London Monday for the opening of
Parliament, are Mr.. zilliacus, Arthur
c. Allen, Godfrey H. c. Bing, Arthur
Joseph Champion, Frederick Lee,
Benjamin T. Parkin, Thomas George
Thomas and Harry White.
Mr.. Zilliacus was British intelli-
gence officer in Siberia from 1914 to
1919. Later he was for 18 years a
member of the League of Nations
secretariat.