NO PLAN FOR BIG THREE MEETING

Grey River Argus, 31 March 1948, Page 5

NO PLAN FOR BIG THREE MEETING

WASHINGTON, March 29.

White House said there were no plans for a meeting of President Truman, Mr Attlee and Mr Stalin and the President had no plans to leave the United States. This announcement followed a London report that the Big Three might meet soon in Berlin. An appeal to President Truman to try to meet Mr Stalin to make a last effort to reach an understanding with him before “the world plunges over the precipice into an unspeakable third world war,” was made in a broadcast speech to-day by Senator Claude Pepper (Democrat, Florida). Senator Pepper said that at the meeting President Truman should present an American plan for peace discussed in advance with Congressional leaders, and if Mr Stalin rejected it then Americans would know that they at least had done what they could do to prevent war. Senator Pepper, who talked with Mr Stalin in Moscow in 1946 and often had been called an apologist for Russia, declared to-day: “The Soviet has been guilty of aggression which offends and affronts our sense of independence and the dignity and freedom of all peoples throughout the world." Denying Inal he was an appeaser, Senator Pepper said: “But I know the horror of war with modern weapons, and I do not want to see the youth of America butchered in another war if there is any way to prevent it”