SOVIET POWER IS CONSOLIDATED IN EAST EUROPE

Grey River Argus, 25 March 1948, Page 5

SOVIET POWER IS CONSOLIDATED IN EAST EUROPE

Greater Danger for Britain from Communists

LONDON, March 23 The Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs, Mr Mayhew, speaking in London, said*that the recent events in Czechoslovakia were the most serious menace with which Britain was faced since the end of the war. They marked the final consolidation of Soviet power over Eastern Europe and brought home the “great dangers in which we ourselves stand in face of Communist subversive tactics.” COMMUNISTS IN BRITAIN Three scientists at the British Government’s atomic research station at Didcot, Berkshire, have been listed as members or former members of the Communist Party, according to the Daily Express. After studying their records, the Minister of Supply, (Mr G. R. Strauss), will decide whether they are to remain there. “So far. 45 suspected s Communists and fellow-travellers have been found in the Supply Ministry and the defence departments, mostly in the Royal Air Force establishment at Farnborough, Hampshire, where guided missiles and jet bombers are being designed,” says the Daily Express. QUESTION OF WAR The Soviet Ambassador in London, M. Zarubin, said at a diplomatic reception to-day that there was not likely to be a war for a long time because none of the people wanted it. BRITAIN'S DEFENCES The Secretary for War, Rt. Hon. Emanuel Shinwell, said in the House of Commons that he did not consider it a breach of the international law that Britain had asked German prisoners of war with technical experience of the winter campaigns on the Russian front to advise on the winter exercises carried out by the British army. Britain must avail herself “of any technical experience which was conductive to the efficiency of the army.”

The Moscow Line LONDON, March 22. Reuters correspondent in Prague says that the Czechoslovak Social Democrat Party has announced that it will leave the International Socialist Committee, which has been conferring in London on recovery in Europe. The Hungarian Socialist Party has .resigned from the committee because “it worked with war-mongering imperialists.”