Stalin's Statement Most Reassuring

Chronicle (Levin), 26 September 1946, Page 5

Stalin's Statement Most Reassuring

Press Assn.

SAT1SFACTI0N IN EUROPE

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Received Wednesday, 7.0 p.m. LONDON, Sept. 24. j •Generalissimo Stalin's stateuient that he does not believe : there is real danger of a new war, ' iias caused general relief and ! pleasure in London, says Reuter's diplomatic correspondent. Observers regard it as the most reassuring statement on foreign aflairs since the end of the war. Reuter's Moscow correspondent says a wave of intense relief and satisfaction swept Moscow after Generalissimo Stalin's statement which lii'ted fear of a rencwal of war like magie. Reuter's Paris correspondent reports that the statement is warmly welcomed throughout Prance as marking a turning point in iuternational relatiolis, particularly since opou talk of the danger of war in the near future, has aeen increasing in recent Aveeks. The London Times, in an editorial, says Stalin's interview pi'ovides a t'imely and much needed recall to sanity and moderation. The leader, after stating that no delegation to the Paris conference had made a serious attempt to formulate a middle policy whicli might form an eventual basis of agreement between the conflieting interests and ideologies, adds: "Britain at present has a unique opportunity of supplying this need. The timo has arrived when, in self interest I no less than in the broader interests of the nations, Britain must •>eize the oeeasion to press the i'ruits of her' own exporienee as a eontribution whieh might be deeisive to international economic iceord. It is elear that if Russia uid Ameriea eontinue to divide tlie Paris conferenee hetween their iiwn extreme positions, divisions would tlien grow more obdurate with more and more disastrous effeets on prospeets of concord. Notliiiig eould do more to promote ihe proeess of peaeemaking than (he emergenee of an aetive body of opinion desirous of promoting eoaipromise solut.ions."