Evening star., 1953-03-13
Eden Blasts SHOOTING
Of Plane by Red jets
|As 'Barbaric' Action
By the Assoeioted Press

NEW 1O6LA. MAR. 10.-AQ-
thony Eden, British Foreign Sec
retary. has denounced as "bar-
baric" the shooting down of an
Raj bomber by pair of Soviet
MIG jets.
Mr.. Eden. delivering a major
speech last night before the
Foreign Policy Association, de-
parted from his prepared text to
lash out at Russia over yester-
days attack on the British plane.
which killed five of the seven
crewmen.
Reading text, Mr.. Eden said
the United States and Britain
stood ready to negotiate with
Russia-despite Premier Stain S
death-and that both nations
would welcome a similar inten-
ton from the Soviets.
DiScards Text.
Discarding the text momen-
tarily. Mr.. Eden added:
There is nothing of the kind
up to the present. On the con-
trary, we have today heard of
the shooting down while on a
routine exercise of a Royal Air
Force training bomber.
". Deliberate and unpro-
voked attacks of this kind by
what are supposed to be friendly
forces can only be called bar
barrie"
The RAF plane fell in flames
yesterday after the MICS at
tackled above the Elbe River VAL
ley at the East-We frontier
OF Germany. Britain's govern
ment ordered a protest "in the
strongest terms" The Moscow
radio already has claimed the
bomber had been violating the
Soviet zone of Germany.
1900 Hear Talk.
More than 1900 persons
jammed the main ballroom of
the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel to
hear Mr.. Eden's speech, which
also had nationwide radio
and television audience.
Mr.. Eden urged the United
States to fight only a partial
war in Korea. which he termed
a "thankless" assignment and
added:
1T is one thing for a nation
to throw its entire strength into
fight for survival. It is an
other to conduct a partial war
with all kinds of restraint upon
your action.
"And yet we know that these
restraints must be maintained"
Interrupted by Applause.
Mr.. Eden was interrupted with
applause when he said that no
goods of strategic Importance
had gone to Red China from
British sources in nearly two
years.
"Since the beginning of the
Korean war;" he said, mo arms
have been sold to Communist
China from any British territory.
I'VE also are taking further
steps to insure that no ships of
any nationality taking strategic
cargoes to China shall be bunk
cred in British ports. -
These measures speak for
themselves. They do not repre-
sent a new policy. 4
Designed, to Stop Leaks.
"They are designed to stop
leaks in an existing system. We
are confident that they will ef-
fectively discourage and prevent
the very small proportion of for
bldden supplies which were get
ting by.
But. Of course. these addi-
tlonal measures can only be fully
effective with the cooperation
of other maritime and trading
nations. We shall join with you
in an effort to get this"
Mr.. Eden said he had dis
cussed thoroughly with Presi-
dent Eisenhower and Secretary
of State Dulles the supplies-to-
China policy of his government.
The British cabinet member
praised the United States for
bearing the heaviest burden of
the war in Korea.
He said world peace depends
on successful British-American
cooperation but that such COL
laboration implied no "ganging
up" against any other nation.
Use of restraint while contain
ing aggression, Mr.. Eden said,
make "some feel Illustration and
impatience when they contem-
plate the task which we have