REACTION IN UNITED STATES.

Chronicle (Levin), 26 September 1946, Page 5

REACTION IN UNITED STATES.

Received Wednesday, 8.40 p.m. WASHINGTON, Sept. 25. "Reaction to Generalissimo Stalin's statements is generally favourahle akhough tio Official is optirnistic enong'h to view them as the solution of all the difhculties between the Western Powers and Russia. Some officials, while expressing relief ht Stalin's assertions that no real danger of war exists and that the great Powers

ean cooperate, were disjtosed to think that taetics whicli in tlie past had produced pacilic statements from the Krem'lin when international disputes were aeutc. were more responsible for Generalissimo Stalin's statements at tlu present juneture than any othei 3'actor. Mr. Iienry Wallace unreserved ly liailed Generalissimo Stalin'? statement, in combination with Mr. Eden's speeeh. He stated: "Generalissimo Stalin's and Air. Eden's statements" brought hope to millions throughout the wovlo who are hungering for peace." ' Accor.ding to oue theory advanced by Washington ohservers Generalissimo Stalin's statement!are direeted to the Russian atwell as the American people With the Wallace controversy and Paris debates whipped to a liigh pitch, Stalin fomid the situation more tense than originally intended, with neither the Russian nor American people wanting war. Therefore something had to he done to cairn nerves. White House is silent and Mr. Clayton would only state that Generalissimo Stalin's statements were interesting and important. He saw no need for a new ap proacli in the relations of the Big Four as Mr. Eden suggested. Declaring that the Kremlin Sphinx had perhaps spoken more usefuliy than any other voiee in the current uproa'r, the New Yot'k Herald-Tribune eomments editorially that although the interview carried 110 final promise of pacification, it suggested that the Kremlin may he groping for a real basis for peaee. The New York Times leader says: "Generalissimo Stalin's speeeh is certainly iiiteresting as Mr. Clayton said, hut just how important it was must depend on future aetion. Generalissimo Stalin, in Hungary and elsewhere iu Central Europe, on the Adriatie, at the Dardanelles, and in the Middle East, had plenty of seope to practise 'that friendiy and lasting cooperation' which he thought 'l'ar from deereasing and may even grow'. If there was to be successful cooperation it eould not be exclusively 011 Russian terms as Generalissimo Stalin hitherto wanted it."