Evening star., 1950-10-23
Truman Peace Plan
Rebuffed by Moscow
As Rude, Ridiculous
BY the Associated Press

BY the Associated Press
MOSCOW. Oct. 23.-RuSsia has
turned down President Truman's
four peace demands on the So
Wet Union, voiced in San Fran
cisco last week. as rude, ridicu-
lous pretensions (that) coulc
originate only in the mind of q
warmonger."
The Russian reply was voiced
yesterday in Pravda, organ of the
Communist Party, which said not
Russia. but the United States
must change its policy to avert a
new world war.
Mr.. Truman in his San Fran
cisco speech said the Soviet
Union could prove its desire for
peace by living up to the prin-
ciples of the United Nations Char
ter, by asking the North Koreans
to stop fighting, by permitting
free exchange of information and
ideas between Eastern Europe and
the West, and by joining United
Nations efforts to establish a
workable system of collective Sc
curity.
Z. S. S. r. 'Slandered.'
The President. Pravda said,
"slandered the Soviet Union in
attempting to create basis for
his demands for further un-
checked arms race"
The whole world knows" the
article continued, that it is the
U. S. S. R. which has been de-
manding arms reduction, prohibi-
ton of atomic weapons and a
five-power peace pact to secure
the peace"
Mr.. Truman had said the United
States is increasing its armed
strength because Soviet policies
leave us no other choice" The
Americans. he added, "are going
ahead in dead earnest to build up
our defenSes."
u. S. Policy Assailed.
'It is the aggressive policy of
the United States that is the pri-
mary cause of the strained inter-
national situation and the primary
cause of the existing threat of
war" Pravda declared.
The party organ said President
Truman's Wake Island conference
with Gen. Macarthur had eX-
ploded the myth that the United
Nations had voice in Korea. The
presidents trip, Pravda added,
showed the world that Mr.. Tru-
man and Gen. MacArthur-not
the United Nations-decide Ko-
rean matters.
Pravda also demanded adop-
tion of four-point program for
Germany's future, as set forth
by the eight-nation Prague con-
ference which wound up Satur-
day.
Prague Delegation Cited.
In its lead editorial today,
Pravda declared the Prague
declaration is inspiring peace
partisans the world over to in
tensifled struggles against i'm
perialist Warmongers.
Pravda also ran comment from
observers in East European capi-
tails lauding the Prague program.
Meanwhile top diplomats of
Russia and her seven Communist
allies were feted in Prague last
night as part of a round of social
activities following the two-day
German parley.
Soviet Deputy Prime Minister
v. M. Molotov and other diplo-
matte leaders dined with Czecho-
slovak President Klement Gott-
valid.
The previous evening Molotov
went to the opera, where he was
given an official ovation. He
made a brief speech to the audi
ence in praise of Czechoslovakia.
The eight nations - Russia,
Czechoslovakia, Romania, Poland,
Bulgaria, Hungary. East Germany
and Albania-wound dp their con-
ference Saturday with a four
point plan for setting up demo-
cratic, peace-loving. alderman
sovereign government"
The plan was set forth in a
2,000-Word communique assailing
the Western powers and outlining
a German settlement.