ONLY ONE WAY TO PEACE

Chronicle (Levin), 5 June 1946, Page 5

ONLY ONE WAY TO PEACE

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! RUSSIA MUST ENTER EUROPEAN SETTLEMENT FULLY I Mr. Bevin Opens Foreign Affairs Debate

By Telegravh

-Coyyright

Received Wednesday, 11 a.m. LONDON, June 4. At the opening of the two-day debate on foreign affairs in the House of Commons, Mr. Bevin said there eould only be one guarantee of permanent peace in Europe — if Russia freely /mtered into the European settlement. One of the greatest ^•stacles to peace, however, was the Russian idea which ran 1 O'xFough all Russian speeches and writmgs that the Soviet method of Government alone represented democracy, and that other systems were either Fascist or crypto-Fascist. The security of all countries must not be sacrificed by each country concentrating on its own security. The adoption of the Russian method in Britain would be retrogressive.

Mr. Bevin said he would pursue the British oti'er of a fifty year Angio-Russian Peace Treaiy, wnich. he was sure wouid come. He regretted that tiie origmal oiier to uene'ralissimo Stalin was not taken more seriousiy. There was not mereiy one area in the world where probiems had to be solved; it wa£ tne wnoie world. Tne road to peace was very, very hard, especialiy wnen complicated by varymg politicai concepuons in dilierent countries. A settlement of dift'erences was often handicapped by a desire to secure the adoption oi a particuiar ideoiogy. He was not

pessimistic on that account. He ,was stiii wedded to M. Litvinov's famous phrase, that peace is mdivisible. | Tne British Government's basic aim in foreign poncy wouid be to make United Nations work effectively, Mr. Bevm continued. All international questions must now be deait with in relation to United Mations, which some day would draw its power direct from the people's will. If the world did not want total war it must have total peace, but the probiems to-day were more complicated than those which faced the 1919 peacemakers.