Evening star., 1953-09-24
Britain Calls on Reds
In u. n. for Easing
Tension Step by Step
ey the Associofed Press

Sept. 24.-Britain today well
coined apparent moderation Of
Russian policy since Stains
death and called on the Soviet
Union to agree to step-by-Step
negotiation of. East-West quar-
relS.
Agreement on individual is
sues such as Germany and Ko-
rea. Minister of State Selwyn
Lloyd told the United Nations
General Assembly, would main
tain some momentum behind the
Improvement"
Negotiations with the Soviet
Union on one issue at a time
has been the policy favored by
the United States. Mr.. Lloyd
today paid tribute to Secretary
of State John Foster Dulles for
his temperate and statesman
ike SApOS1bkOI1 "a NA("o
In a speech here last week.
Prime Minister Churchill
called last May for a top-level
conference of leading world
powers, presumably including
Soviet Premier Georgi Malenkov,
to ease world tension. The
United States opposed this, and
todays British statement ap-
peared to put the two Western
allies side by side in the policy
to be followed in dealing with |
Moscow.
Backed by Netherlands.
Netherlands Foreign Minister
j. M. A. H. Luns also called on
Russia to negotiate directly on |
Korea, Germany and Austria
and said such parleys could
achieve more important results
than the current debates in the
Assembly.
Mr.. Lloyd said I'VE believe it
to be a mistake to assume that
nothing can be settled with So
Wet Russia unless and until
everything is settled. A settle
ment of two or three of our dlf-
ficulties would be an important
gain to every peace-loving coun-
try" he added.
"One matter on which we are
very ready to try to make prog
ress is Germany"
To this end. he urged the
Kremlin to accept the invitation
extended by the United States,
Britain and France for foreign
ministers conference on Ger
many at Lugano, Switzerland.
October Is. He insisted, how
ever that the conference deal
primarily with setting up free
elections throughout East and
West Germany-a view which
the Soviet Union has previously
rejected.
Warning on Indo China.
Mr.. Lloyd then turned to Asia
and denounced the Communist
financed and supported war
against French Union forces IN
1ndo-China.
There can be no lasting
peace in Asia so long as the War
continues" he warned. The emo
of the war in the associated
states of Indo- China is an es-
sential step along the path OF
pacification and conciliation IN
Asia which began with the ar
mistice in Korea"
The British diplomat urged
the Chinese Communists and
North Korean authorities to
agree to open the Korean po-
litical conference on the terms
which the Assembly adopted last
month.
He said Britain had originally
supported the idea of a round
table conference rather than the
two-sided version urged by the
United States and approved by
the Assembly. Nevertheless, he
said, this was no time to reopen
debate on the subject and I'VE
fervently hope that the Chinese
peoples government and North
Korean authorities will on re-
consideration find themselves
able to accept the proposals we
have made and to join in a con-
ference next month"
Mentions Atomic Views.
Lloyd urged the Soviet Union
to abandon it's oft-rejected pro-
posals for immediate prohibition
of the atom bomb and fiat one
third reduction in great powers
armamentS. He asked her in
stead, in order to ease world
tensions, to work along the lines
of a verified, gradual disarma-
ment already put forward by |
the Western powers.
Russia'S Andrei ViShinsky |
fought hard early in the week to |
get the Assembly to reconsider |
the stand it took in August that |
the Korean parley conference
should be two-Sided with only
belligerentS representing the
U. N. He failed but is expected
to try again to force a debate
on the Chinese demands.
The whole tenor of Britain's
statements in the U. N. during
the debates has indicated that
the British-American breach.
caused by United States opposi-
ton to India as a peace confer
ence member, has been repaired,
The two allies also are sticking
together in support of Turkey
for the Security Council seat
which Greece will yield at the
end Of its two-year term in De-
cember.
Philippines in Race.
The Philippines came out late
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