EUROPEAN LEADERS ON FOREIGN POLICY

Rotorua Morning Post, Issue 5324, 10 February 1947, Page 5

EUROPEAN LEADERS ON FOREIGN POLICY

(Press Assn.—

'REASSURING views ' POLAND WOULD SHAKE HANDS ALL ROUND

-Rec. 11.30 p.m.) '

# LONDON, Feb. 9; Statements of p6Iicy have been made by the leaders ot> f ve European countries. The Folish Prime Minister told thc, ' National Assembly.in Warsaw that the Government based its foreign policy on friendship with the Soviet Union. He wantecl ihe widest eo-opera-Uon with France and goodvviil . v/ith the United States and , Britain. Polarid would alsp f Dntinue to seek an agreement with Czechosiovakia. | v Press reports from Warsaw S|iy_ that there are increasing signs that Ri-ssia is graldually redueing the num*•ber of her troops in Poland, along (»one of heir commun^eations with north-west Germany. ' •

In Prague, M. Benes, " the Prime Minister, said: "We are trying to mahe s'ure that our neighhours •wili never attack us again every 10 . br 20 years." In 'Rome, the Italian Prime Miit- " inster, Signor de Gasperi, told the Cqnstituent Assembly that Italy would sign, the peace treaty as aft act of good faith, but it would not be valid unless it was ratified by" Ihe Italian Parliament. The Freneh Prime Minister, M. Ramadier, .told the French people, in a broadcast that the -Government in* tended to make a second five per cent. cut in prices on March 1; Political developments in Hungary ai'e discussed 'by a British correspondent in a despatch from B'Udapest. He says that the crisis has reached a hew stage with a demand for an inquiry into a Communist charge that high officials were involved in a recerit plot against the State for whieh 10O people are now awaitmg trial. If , th'e Communists prove their case, they will implicate the Prime Minister- and the President of the Republic. .