ONE FREE WORLD WANTED

Chronicle (Levin), 18 November 1949, Page 5

ONE FREE WORLD WANTED

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Bevin States Britam's CMef Aim

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Received Friday, 10.35 a.m. • LONDON, Nov. 17. "" The Foreign Secretary, Mr. Ernest Bevin, opening the foreign affairs debate' in the House of Commons today, said that Britain's chief aim since the breakdown of Four-Power c-ollab-oration had been to consolidate and revive Europe, maintain liberty, try to restore morale and mutual confldence and to arrest the spread of Communism in Western countries.

"We want to* bring about a sound relationship between Europe and the Commonwealth and United States, and' we .don'u .want a wedge driven ■betweeh eitlier * if we can help it. We are aiming to estaiblissh one free world." Deallng with the Atlantic Pact, | Mr. Bevin said: "A vast and fictitious peace campaign has been designed to persuade the peaeeloving peoples of the Atlantic area, deiermined to stand against aggression, that they are really warmongering. Nobody capable of independent thought can be convinced that the Atlantic Pact is an offensive instrument." Mr. Bevin said that the Brussels Treaty, the solidarity of Western Europe and the Atlantic Pact stopped the onward rush of disruptive forces and consolidated not only the outlook but the efforts of millions of people throughout the world. He urged the Commons to be "very moderate" in dealing with the problem of Germany's readmission to the European family. "We have bit„er memories of the 1914-18 war and what happened subsequently, and the feeling is much deeper in France than it is here," he deelared. Mr. Churchill urged the Government to mahe every effort to speed

up Germany's admission to the Assembly of Europe. Mr. Churchi 1 said: "I am sure it would be of great benefit if the h'ext meeting of the Assembly coUld be brought forward SO' that the introduetion of German representatives could at the earliest ihoment oecome an acccmplished fact." Criticising the British Govern- . ment's support of Czecnoslovakia's raudidature for election to the United Nations Security Council, Ivxi.'. Cxiuicniil saiu: "Not one of the preeent representatives of Czechoslovakia has uxe siightesu right to sp^aklng in the name of the brave Czecnoslovakian people." Mr. Churchill described Czechoslovakia as "this Soviet prison camp." On Albania Mr. Churchill said: "It is known that the Soviet dipiomatic mission inciudes thousands of seientific and military personnel, and the Russians are in physical possession of the former Italian subnr'nnc base at Sasseno, in the Adriatk, opposiie Verona. ' i He deelared that all internal de- I velopment sHiemes, including oil j exploration, wnich were formeriy ' being carried out with Yugoslav help, were novv diieeily in Russian hands.