Evening star., 1951-02-17

Text of Stolin Interview. Poee AS
be more assuring ''if Russia would
demonstrate with facts contribut-
ing to a true peace"
The Russian Prime Minister, in
a newspaper interview broadcast
by Moscow radio last night.
charged the United Nations was a
tool of the United States but add
ed that war was not yet inevitable
A British Foreign Office spokes-
man said:
I'VE do not regard war as in
evitable at all. In our view there
Is no problem which cannot be
solved by peaceful negotiation,
given good will. Certainly, on our
side, such good will always has
been, and always will be. forth
coming"
West Germans DeplOre Stand.
In West Germany a government
spokesman said his country found
it sad and disheartening that
the Soviet leaders repeated the
old charges of alleged aggressive
intentions of the West" and Rus
sia's firm love of peace"
This was very regrettable. in
deed" the German spokesman
said, since everybody meanwhile
has learned that it is Russia S
present superior armament which
compelled the West to take dras-
tic defense measures"
The French government re-
served official comment pending a
study of the full text. A spokes-
man said. however. he did not
think Stalin's remarks had ma
terially hurt the chances for a
Big Four meeting, although it may
have slightly complicated" the
situation. Some British diplo-
mats were represented as believ-
ing that a Big Four conference
now is more urgent than ever.
Typical Action Is Charged.
Stalin's lengthy comments on
war, peace. Korea and the U. N.
were contained in an interview
with Pravda, the official Commu-
mist Party newspaper in Moscow.
This is typical example Cf
Soviet design to SOW dissension in
the free world and to exploit the
natural desire for peace through
out the world" the British spokes-
man said.
He continued:
Accusations that we have op-
posed a reduction of armaments
and banning of the atomic bomb,
come strangely from a power
which has vetoed proposals for
the international control of atomic
energy which we're Endorsed by the
overwhelming majority of the
General Assembly (of the United
NationS), absented itself from the
talks which were being held on
this subject by the six permanent
members of the Atomic Energy
Commission and similarly OBJ
structed all attempts by the Con-
ventional Armaments Commission
to work out an effective system of
disarmament"
London Diplomats Puzzled.
The spokesman said that "as
has been made clear by govern
ment Spokesmen in this country,
it is only in the face of the aggres-
Sive and subversive policies of the
Soviet government, backed by the
threat of overwhelming forces,
that the Western nations have
been constrained to take the first
steps to organize their own self
defense"
In London, unofficial diplo-
matte sources said they were puz-
zled over the timing of the state
ment, coming as it did after the
three western powers had agreed
to a foreign ministers deputies
session in Paris next month as a
probable forerunner to Big Four
foreign ministers meeting.
It is felt here that the Russian
leaders statement has aggravated
the East West tensions the pro-
posed Big Four sessions were de-
signed to ease.
There was conjecture whether
Stalin's denunciation of the U. N.
as tool of aggressive war" could
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