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using the. threat of overwhelming
force" and aggressive and sub
versive policies" throughout the
world to prevent peace.
In five-page note, Prime Min
lister Attlee's government threw
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the book-the entire postwar rec
ord-at Moscow in answering a
Soviet charge of January 20 that
Britain is violating the 1912
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ing to rearm West Germany.
Coming promptly after Prime
Minister Stalin's broadside in a
Pravda interview against Britain,
the United States and the United
Nations, the British note was a
ready-made reply to Stain also.
The note, originally prepared
for delivery next week, was handed
to Soviet Ambassador Georgi N
Zarubin late Saturday because it
dealt directly with several points
raised by the Stain interview.
Agree War Not Inevitable.
Virtually the only agreement
found among Western spokesmen
and newspapers commenting on
the interview was with Stalin's
qualified statement that war is
not yet inevitable.
The reaction of French govern
ment spokesmen and Washington
administration experts was that
Stain laid the groundwork for
his eventual departure from the
United Nations by his charge the
U. N. is being turned into a tool
of the United States and an lin
strument for war"
In Washington the State De-
partment issued a statement last
night calling Stalin's interview
"one more misstatement" which
cannot cover up the fact of Soviet
responsibility for aggression
mo man alive knows better than
Prime Minister Stain who was
behind the Communist aggression
in Korea" said the statement re-
leased by State Department Press
Officer Michael McDermott.
It asserted that the "spate of
purges and disaffections within
the Communist world showed
there was dissatisfaction within
the Soviet orbit and Stain was
trying to show again that all
the world is out of STEP"
'The only new feature in the
Interview is the indication that
Marshal Stain now agrees with
us that the cause of world ten
sion does not center in Germany
as the Soviet government is con-
tending. Marshal Stain alleges
many other causes of tension but
does not mention Germany"
Further details including text of
State Department comment are
given, on Page A-2).
Ia Points Listed in Note.
Setting out painstakingly to
"refute in the most formal man
ner the unfounded allegations"
IN the Soviet note of January 20,
the British Foreign Office listed
IA points charging Russian OBJ
struction, lack of cooperation,
subversion, threats, breach of
faith and support of aggression
In the postwar era.
1T is in the light of all these
circumstances" the note said.
that his majesty's government,
like the other governments of the
West, have been obliged in pure
self-defense to set about strength
ening their defenses and consid-
ering the participating of German
units IN the defense of Western
Europe"
Taking a look at the record,
Britain charged Russia:
Supported in the U. N. the "un-
provoked aggression" of North
Korea and the subsequent inter-
vention of the Chinese Commu-
nistS.
"Applauded" the action of Com
munist rebels in British Malaga
and elsewhere and openly sup
ported them in Tndo-C China.
Violated the Yalta agreement by
assisting Communist minorities
to seize power" throughout East
ern Europe.
Aided and directed Greek
Communists in their civil war.
Vetoed a U. N. Investigation of
(See NOTE, Page A-3.)