UNDERSTANDING OF RUSSIA

Chronicle (Levin), 30 August 1946, Page 5

UNDERSTANDING OF RUSSIA

-Press Association

PLEA FOR MORE TOLERANCE !

3y Telegraph—

WELLINGTON, August 29. . , A plea "fojb'a more :tpler,ant. uiider;standingV oM nB-uljsiafs; .aiititucfe cbi-' M^er4 natio^ai^qiu^sfi'ohs whs-nKide by^Hojf. T. Blood|\0ttflv ('Ayiei^la.nd) '■ d'uring;:the de|)ata dib the ;jJhitmrXatious Bill in the Legislative Council this afternoon. He regretted that an attempt was being made to show Russia in a very bad light. "As one reads reports which come from various confereuces, it almost seems as though it were all the world against Russia or Russia against all the world," said Mr. Bloodworth. "1 think that is an entirely wrong impression to ereate. " Russia, he said, had come to the tore in the world of nations during tlie last thirty years and, like perhaps some individuals who had come to man 's estate without getting sufficient experience in world aft'airs, she was a little young in dealing with those aft'airs. "We have delegates sitting at the Peace Conference in Paris and I know some of tlie delegation representing Xew Zealand comes from Russia," Mr. Bloodworth continued. "My argumeut against that sort of thing is that, those people having been away from the eountry for quite a nuniber of years, cannot possilily know the feeling of the eountry as do the people who live here all the time." He said that the reason some of tlie Moscow staff were sent to Paris and iucluded in the delegation, was because the notice given to Xew Zealand was ratlier short. It had not been possible to send all the asflistants to the delegates from New Zealand and as a nuniber of the niQjnbe.rs of the staffMn _M°scow had aequired a sound knowledge of mn.tte.rs, it was considered desirable indeed that they#ihould be used to till the gaps. The delegation wks in constant. touch with Ihe Governtnent in Wellington.