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BRITISH ALIGNMENTS
UNCHANGED
The Wanganella, which is fast on a reef at the entrance to Wellington . , . . . _Harbour (N.Z.). Help
The Wanganella, which is fast on a reef at the entrance to Wellington
. , . . . _Harbour (N.Z.).
LONDON (A.A.P.).-There was no question of the :
supersession of the Anglo-Soviet Treaty, and Britain's
alignments remained unchanged, the Russians have been
officially fold, '
THE Foreign Office announced]
yesterday that the British Am
bassador to Moscow (Sir Maurice
Peterson) had . been instructed to j
inform Marshal Stalin that a "Prav-
da" article of last week was mis-
leading. "
The article had suggested thal
dismiss the moves, as a British at-
tempt tb put pressure on France
economically while simultaneously
seeking to calm French anxieties
abotit'"British policy in Germany,
the United Nations might be re-
garded in London as superseding
the Anglo-Russian Alliance.
Marshal Stalin was tb be inform- i
ed that this suggestion surDrised
the British Government. ?
ÏJ.N. as Buttress
The fact that both Governments
wished .to have the U.N. as a but-
tress to international security did
not mean' lapse of the treaty.
No- security agreements that
could possibly be considered to
justify supersession of the treaty
had yet been adopted under Article
43 of the U.N. Charter, the state-
ment continued. '
The purpose of Mr. Bevin's
broadcast on December 22 had
been to show that Britain had not
aligned her foreign policy against
Russia, but favoured co-operation
among'all nations, arid especially
with Russia and the U.S.
Blum Visit Reaction
Soviet press reaction to M.
Blum's London visit has been calm.
Comments are that France has
little reason for satisfaction either
over the prospects of coal from the
Ruhr-or at the possibility of an al-
liance which might threaten her
sovereignty;
There I«, not the «lightest indi,
cation that an Anglo-French al*
liance Is- taken to represent a
new attempt to eraate a Western
blot.
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