Evening star., 1953-05-25
1op-LeVeI Meetings
Must Include Russia,
Moscow Paper Says
By Eddy Gilmore

~SsOS'otSo FTeSS E0ISi0H AoNSSponoeHI
MOSCOW, May 25.-The So
Wet Unions latest major state-
ment on foreign policy has made
1t plain the Kremlin strongly be-
lieves in a Big Four conference,
but Just as strongly opposes Big
Three talks which don't include
the Russians
The Soviet expression came in
a full-page Pravda editorial yes
terday. The Community Party
organ:
/. Condemned President Eli
senhower's plan to meet with
Prime Minister Churchill and a
new French Premier. Such a
meeting. said Pravda, means a
continuance of Western "collu-
sion" against the Soviet Union
and "can bring about the further
heightening of the tension in in
ternational relations"
2. Generally approved the
British'S Premier's proposal for
talks by the top East-West gov
ernment leaders and particularly
that Churchill, unlike other
statesmen of the West, does not
tie up his proposal with any
preliminary obligations for one
or the other side"
Blast U. S. Demands.
8. Blasted American demands
for further Soviet action as a
preliminary to any East West
meeting. Regarding Korea and
Austria (Which Gen. Eisenhow-
er and Secretary of State Dulles
had cited as areas where the
Russians could back up their
peace talk with peace action.
Pravda. said: In both these
cases things depend not on the
Soviet Union but on the U. S. A.
and England, which have not
yet given their Just share in
either case"
4. Called for settlement of the
Korean wal and the German
question to prepare the soil"
for solution of other world is
sues. Pravda said Germany
should be reunited but that a
revival of German militarism"
must be prevented; the last
Communist proposals on Korean
prisoners of war provide the
necessary basis for a practical
solution of this last question
which stands in the way of a
truce and, therefore. the end
Of the war in Korea"
S. Dismissed as worthless"
Sir Winston's suggestion for
Locarno-type treaties guarantee
ing Germany against Russia and
vice versa. The 1925 Locarno
pact, the editorial said, had per-
mitted Germany to rearm and
given her freedom of action in
the east; a new Locarno would
result in groupings of one set
of countries against another .
sharpening international rela-
tions."
To many diplomats here. the
PraVda statement indicated a
keen Russian interest in an
East-West meeting. The state
ment> made 1t quite clear, though,
that the Sovie Union would at
tend no such meeting If the
West insists the Soviets must
do certain things before such a
meeting.
General Tone Is Mild.
It was generally considered
here that the Russians had made
1t plain they think Sir Winston
and France should not agree to
attend a three-power meeting
with Gen. Eisenhower but should
hold out for talks including the
Soviets. Some Western diplo-
mats here agreed this Russian
position might have a powerful
appeal in some sections of
Britain and France.
The general tone of the state
ment was mild, however. and
there was no name-calling.
Despite the differences in So
cial systems of the Communist
and Western nations, Pravda
said, there are mo few points of
vital Importance at which the
interests of these states merge"
A major point. it added, was the
development of trade and eco
nomic and social cooperation,