Recovery Being Throttled

Chronicle (Levin), 21 October 1946, Page 5

Recovery Being Throttled

Press Assn.

mr. Byrnes disturbed

; By Telegraph

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R'eceiV'ed Sunday, 7 p.m. WASHHSTGTON, Oct. 19. ' The idea that war was inevltabl'e, was throttliti'g Europe's eeonomic recovery and causing artificial tens'ions betWeen atates and within states, said 1\tr. Byrnes, Secretary of State, in a broadcast to the nation. The thihg ivhicfi disturbed him wUs not the lei tered provisions of treaties which "were discussed at Paris but the continued, if no't increasihg, tension between United States and Russia. He and Presideiit Tfimian would continue to work for ari understanding with the Soviet but every understanding required a reconciliati'oiii of differdnces and no't a yielding by one state to the arbitrary will of another. Any two states could quickly reach a'greement if one "was willing to yield to all demaiids. united States was not willing to do that and was equally unwilling to ask it of' another state. Mr. Byrnes, descrihing the development of sympathetic Russo-Americah uMefStahdihg as a supPeme task of statesmanship, said if the states were to reach agreements, they must act iii good faith and a spirit of conciliation. They raust not launch false and mis•ieading propaganda against each other and hWi'st not arbitrarily use the veto powef, thus preventing a return to p'eace and delaying economic reconstructioh. United Stht.es had been criticised t'or being botli too soft and too tougli witli Russia. Xei'ther phrase accurately desc'ribed United States' earnest efforts to be patient bu't firm. "We won 't permit critieism to distni'l) or influence us. We shall eonliriue to seek friendship with Ihe ftoviel and all other states on ltasie justice anl the right of others to opinions aud ways o'f life which we cannot sliare," he said. Mr. Byrnes said the delavs and setItacks in achieving an euduring peace did not make war inevitable. ll was possible the Soviet 's failure lo realise that, luy at the very root of tlre world 's ditticulties. The world must not lose faith because the lemjile of peace could not be built iit a month or year. UYiifed States wouhl continue iu rejeel the idea uf exclusive alliances and would refuse to gang up against any state. . ilnit^d States deplored the Soviet 's tendency to fegard states which were f'fiendly "to Amefica as unfriendly to the Soviet and to eonsider unfriendly United States' efforts to maintain trhditionally friendly relations with conntries bordering the Soviet. Mr. Eyrnes expressed hewilderment at Soviet charges at Paris that Unitev'l States was trying to enslave Europe ecerioihically. ThoiS'e charges were particulaiiy rCgrettable, coming from a statre tb Which iJn'ited States advanced more than 1,000,000,000 dollars in EendLease in wartime and with which United States wanted = friendship m peacetimfe. United States wanled to help Hu ro peah reconstruction because she beJieved that would eontribute to world pfosperiTy 'and world peace. It was not dollar demooracy. It was farther from the devil t'ake tlie hiiulmost philosophy of bygone days. than Soviet Russia iv t'rom Czarist Russia. Mr. Byrnes said tlie American peojile extended the haud of friendship to tlie Soviet people and all others in the world. The Paris treaties were not written as United States would write lliem if she had a free liand Imt they were as good as could be lioped for by general agTeenient now or within an\ reasonable time. United States would not agree to an\ treatv which made Trieste a prb lectorate of Yugoshivia and leavc United Xations powerless to prevcnt it ijeconting a battleground. There must not be any seizure of power in Trieste 1-jke that in .Fiume. after the iirst world ■ivim A yT-ivT-V ' ' "1\ t'A ■'■'' ■■■ ■' • ' \ '-•V -riiany iksues fri Paris •m wJtich/'RrisSda and America . vo't'eU . together but regrettabl y on otlier issues ihe 'Slav states ebnsisteiitly voted together against all others. Whatever tlie / reason for tliis, those other states did not vote as they did by any eaucus or bloc action. The cleavage was based )ii a conviction and not u])on strategy ) r hidden design. Comment by Mr. Wallace After Jisteniiig to Mr. Byrnes, Mr lieiiry Wallace coiinuented: "I am more cerlain than ever that we must .ulopt a real American foreign poliey. 1 am glad Ylr. Byrnes has progressed since his Stuttgart speech and hope he will eventually realise that the American people demand justice, good iieighbourliness and world peace."