SENATOR'S PLEA FOR MEETING
Received Mondav, 7 p.m. XEW YORIv March 2'S. An appeal to President Truman to try to meet Stalin and make a lasf effort to reach an understanding with hihi before ''the world plunges over tiie precipice into an unspeakable third world 'wai-/' was made in a broadeast today by Senator Claude Pepper ( Deinoc r at — FIo rida) . Senator Pepper said that at the meeting President Truman should present an American plan for peace diScussed in advance with Fongress leaders and if Stalin rejectOd it, then Americans would know they at least had done what they could to prevent war. Senator Pepper, who talked with Stalin in AIoscow in 1946, and has of't-en been called an apologist for Russia, declared today: "The Soviet has been guilty of aggression which offends and affronts our sense of independence and dignitv and freedom for ali ' peoples worldvvide. ' ' Denying that he was an appeas.er, Senator Pepper said: " But 1 laiow fhe. horror of war with modern weapons and don't want to see the youth of Ameriea ■ butchered in another wai- if there is any way to prevent it. " '
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Chronicle (Levin), 30 March 1948, Page 5
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