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1 AS ee ? | | <8 MAY 15 a 7 al ad i Waa? Is Seen Provin Reds Play West for Sucker By DAVID LAWRENCE WASHINGTON, April 26.-It|the trend of British diplomatic! begins to lock as if Moscow isjpolicy. It is rather an obsession: playing the United States andlin London that if Asia is writ-| the other nations in the freelten off and any kind of peace is} world for suckers. The tip-offimade there, the Allies will be in the Soviet chess game is theifreed to build up their defenses publication of the recent speechiand America will spend more of President Elsenhower and tne money in Europe. significant comment along w Story on Montgomery it in “Pravda” that Russia, too, The story is going around has her “claims and ideas of Washington, for instance, that what should be done.’ Every . at a private dinner here, given one of the Elsenhower points two weeks ago by Gen. Collins, was met in the officially inspired ; ; _|¢hief of staff of the United Soviet press with the usual Com States Army, In honor of Vis- munist rebuttals. count Montgomery, the British This reflects the plan of thejseld marshal—who is deputy Soviet government to overcoMe/military commander of NATO— war fears and strengthen a weaklinid the high-ranking guests internal situation by starting|piuntly that if the American discussions” which may Jast government insisted on carry- two or three years. MeanwhileJing the war further in Korea the Allies will be influenced bylche would find herself alone @ peace-hungry public opinion to|pearing 100 per cent of the bur-: follow a namby-pamby policy of|qen; that she couid not expect watchful waiting and reducedlany heip from Britain, and that armament building. he thought the American peo- The Soviets are so sure they|ple wouldn't go along either. have the free world in a trap|At this, Rep. Dewey Short, Hag LIL) LEITE? that even while Mr. Eisenhower|publican, chairman of the and the other statesmen call for|House Armed Services Corf “deeds, not words,” the Com-jmittee, who was at the dinner, munist-supplied armies in thejis reported to have remar kop last few days have boldly crossed|that he thought he understood the boundaries of Laos, an inde-/somewhat better the feelings of pendent kingdom in southeast|the American people, and since Asia, thus perpetrating a new|they were today bearing 95 per aggression before the eyes of thelcent of the burden in Korea, he whole world. Moscow guessedididn’t think they would object right—both Washington andlto carrying 100 per cent if London were too impressed byjnecessary. the “peace maneuvers” to risk| There is no doubt that what any denunciation of what hap-|Pield Marshal Montgomery said t .Totson i). in “a at 4add “ ea “ Nichol Belmont u f} Clegg —_-—_ Glavin Harbo —_—__ Rosen Tracy —— Gearty Mohr —-—_-_— Winterrowd — Tele. Room — Holloman —— Sizou Miss Gandy — yo a recy omer Wit Ein ander AN ly ~ @~ MAY 4 1953 ae ee pened in Laos. Good Chess Players The Soviets play their chess fame well. Undoubtedly: they er being guided by 4:3: tacLean. the British diplomat, who, after serving a long time at the British Embassy in Wash- ington, then was assigned to take charge of the all-important “American desk” in the London ‘Foreign Office through which all confidential cables fiowed daily. When he disappeared behind the Tron Curtain a year and a half ago, Secretary of State Acheson exclaimed, “My God, he knew everything.” se What MacLean knows basi- privately is no secret in London. Every one there knows that the British government wants the Korean War ended on the prin- cipal terms laid down by the Red Chinese, or the Moscow government, as the case may he, because of a belief that this is| the way to get more man power and money to strengthen Eu- rope’s defenses. i Red Maneuver Seen Knowing that the government of Great Britain and British public opinion are almost unani- mous in opposition to American policy in Korea, the Soviet dip- lomats are pressing for a general peace conference. where they are cally is the weakness and vul-|confident those differences will nerability of the Allied position on the diplomatic side, particu- larly the situation in Britain cessfully driven between the be -accentuated, or where the U. S. government is expected to capitulate in the face of a united . where a wedge has been guc-|European demand. ‘So the Russians have every- Washington and London view-/thing to gain and nothing to lose: ently as if Washington was|They know, too, that the Amer- tee although it bas Jooked|by long-drawn-oul negotiations. eginning to succumb to thelican-British ery of “deeds, not any price. of courage nett London concept of peace at!words,” Js just rhetoric. because No inference of lackjthe American and British se wn fromlernments are goin own, - on Wo yey Times-Herald Wash. Post Wash. News Wash. Star N.Y. Herald Tribune N.Y. Mirror Dt wane | a Lae