Word: anglo-soviet
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...political statement, The Catoctin Conversation is warmly sponsored in an introduction by onetime Assistant State Secretary Sumner Welles. Stripped of its high jinks, the Conversation hinges on postwar Anglo-American-Soviet relations. To Churchill, rigorous Anglo-American unity is the best answer to Uncle Joe; to Roosevelt, such unity must never be carried to a point where it excludes Soviet-American harmony, nor must the U.S. take sides in Anglo-Soviet rivalry. "In his talks with me," says Sumner Welles, "Roosevelt never wavered in [this] conviction...
...Secretary Bevin* wrote straight to headquarters to ask why Pravda, the official Communist Party newspaper, had interpreted a stray sentence of his to mean that Britain had ditched her Russian alliance. Replied Stalin: "It is now clear that you and I share the same viewpoint with regard to the Anglo-Soviet treaty." To Bevin's reiterated offer to extend the alliance from 20 to 50 years, Stalin answered: "Before extending this treaty, it is necessary to change it." Bevin will discuss possible changes with Stalin when he visits Moscow in March...
...have said that such a move would be a threat to Russia. Bevin told the House of Commons that he had "deliberately raised" the question at Moscow last December with Stalin: "You want friendly neighbors. Well, in my street I want friendly neighbors too." He reminded Stalin of the Anglo-Soviet 20-year treaty of friendship, offered to lengthen it to 50 years...
...Winston Churchill packed up for a month's visit to Russian hospitals. Outstanding stop: Rostov-on-the-Don, where her Red Cross Aid to Russia fund will equip two 500-bed hospitals as memorials to united Anglo-Soviet sacrifices...
Britons, who regard Russians as rather peculiar foreigners but not sinister bogeymen, and mean every word of the 20-year Anglo-Soviet treaty, were glad to hear it, but not surprised. What they wanted to hear from Mr. Churchill was whether he had succeeded in solving the Polish problem, and on what terms. Also, what about the Balkans...