Men With Sympathies For Russia

Chronicle (Levin), 23 September 1949, Page 5

Men With Sympathies For Russia

"9* Received Tliursdav 7 p.m. LONDON, Sept. 22. Profesfior J. I). Bernal. the Briti-d-bio-chemist who- rotunxed reeently from a peace conference in Moscow, tohi a public meeting last night that British scientists "have. been ftie vietims of a campaign of inisrcprosenta t iou aliout the Soviet Union." Tin.i cainpaisrn. in1 sail, had Oor-n eonductvd "as freely as but far more ifTe.*tively than tliose of the lete. Dr. Goebbels. " Prot'essor Bernal was defomliiig his stateinent in Moscow that seiem-e vva« being tised in capitalist countries I;-' war prpparation. "1 would be ashamed to have had any part in the scheines for combining against our old ally — hatched as Churchill now boasts, as earlv as the Battle of Stalingrad. The great people of tlie Soviet Union de s»rve better of us than that. They de serve our help in building up a peaeel'nl w orld. " Dr. llewlett Johnson, Dcan of Canterbury, said Russia did not need war or v ar preparations to ke.ep its eeoilotny going. It was in fact spending onlv 17 per eent. of its ineome on warlikv preparations — less than before the war. "Why doesn't Mr Truman aceept Maryhill Stalin's ehallenge to nieet liim," asked Dr. Johnson. "Britain and other lountiies should helj) to eall a peae.e I'onferenee. "