SOMETHING RUSSIA MUST REALISE

Chronicle (Levin), 8 April 1948, Page 5

SOMETHING RUSSIA MUST REALISE

Received "Wednesday, 8 p.m. HINDON, April 7. (icneral Kohertson ycsterdav senl a letter to Mni\siml Sokolovsky. l-equesting a loiteration in writiug oi' the Kussian assurancc ahoiit the safety oi' the air eorridor — a step which niost ohservers in Berlin regard a.s essential, says The Titnes' Berlin correspondent. N'otliing has einerged to modil'y the view that althoug'h the Hussian lighter pilot did not deliberatcly rain the Vikiug, his action was provoealive. The British aircral't had the right oi' way and oye-'witnesses had no doubt that the Hussian pilot was deinonstrative to the point of disaster. The correspondent adds that any disposition to regai'd the situation in Berlin as normal, is fraught with danger as is the eontrary tendency to over-einjihasise the signi/ieanee of every ineident. The situation is, in fact. abnormal and will remain so until the relations of the i'our oecupying Rowers liave been put on a sound 1'riendly basis. That. in tuni, will not be possible until there is a I'ull I'ealisation in Moscow -which at presont is laeking— -that the Western Powers hnve every infention of niaintaining their righls and l'reedoni in B»erlin. Meant inie the possibilily OI' another ineident eomparable with the Catow tragedy, is only too apparent.