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Attlee supports
meetings of
major powers
Mr. Attlee told a Tribune reporter on Monday
that he supported meetings of the major powers.
J-JE was answering questions at a
press conference on his recent
visit to the Soviet Union and China
His opinions on other questions
were:
German rearmament now that
EDC has failed: I would have to
check very closely any other proposal.
We have to encourage the
democratic forces in West Germany.
We must always watch for the growth
of Nazism.
FORMOSA: Xhe situation was
as if after the American Civil War,
Jefferson Davies had escaped with
an army and a European power
had maintained hfai in an Island
off the coast—"I doubt whether
Americans would have liked it."
Peaceful co-existence: To think
that you cant have peaceful co
existence is to accept the totalitarian
point of view: I don't accept
that.
China's expansionist aims: My impression
was they bad enough on
hand already in their country.
The present fighting on the Chinese
coast: All wars are dangerous—even
little ones; they may grow.
Value of his visit to Moscow and
China: A positive value in a lessening
of tension in both Moscow and
Peking. It followed on from the
Geneva Conference and should itself
be followed up.
He hoped it would lead to greater
Intercourse between East and West.
The delegations were refused nothing
that they asked to see. He thought
Australia should get to know China
better.
Japanese rearmaments: He viewed
with apprehension any rearming of
Japan without adequate safeguards.
He thought the Chinese have a fear
of America rearming Japan and
establishing satellites to attack
China. He saw nothing of Chinese
naval power.
Should trade
Increased Trade with China: China
has not much to sell but there is a
lot she could get from us.
CARDINAL GILROVS OBJEC-
TION TO HIS OPINION ON
RELIGIOUS FREEDOM IN
CHINA: "Church services of onf„
kind or another are being carried
on." He saw new churches being
built and services carried on. His
colleagues saw and talked with a
Catholic priest and congregation.
Hie interview summarised above
reiterates Mr. Attlee's statements
made in articles and speeches during
his stay in Australia. He has emphasised
that "Australia has nothing
to fear from Communist China; that O
the Chinese leaders do not want war;
that he believed the Chinese government
efficient and incorruptible.
*ravda's rebuke
Conclusions such as these, his
whole mission to China and the
Soviet Union as an effort to improve
international relationships have rendered
good service to the cause of
peace.
At the same time he has revealed
serious inconsistencies in his attitude
towards West German rearmament
and the Soviet Union. It is for
this that the Soviet daily Pravda
recently so forthrightly criticised
him.
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