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basis of generalities, without precise preparatory work,
will land us exactly where we were with the Four Power
Conference, and the public have been disappointed so many
times. I must be forgiven if I say to this house and to
the public that I am so anxious for peace, so anxious for
a settlement with Soviet Russia, that I want to remove any
possible ground for misunderstanding by clearing the ground
as far as I humanly can.
Mr. Emrys Hughes: Will the Minister give due consideration
to the warning given to the world by Sir John Boyd-Orr in
his recent speech and will he in his approach to this
question, consider the broad economic outlook and try his
best to negotiate with the Soviet Union in order to break
the tension to which Sir John Boyd-Orr referred?
Mr. Bevin: No one has done more than I have done on the
economic field since I have held this office. I think
the work I described on 4th May in the Far East and in
Southeast Asia was an evidence of that, but it is all
based on the assumption that we are holding the thing up.
If I can get the idea out of the heads of our friends that
it is we who have been holding up peace the I have had no
idea of it, I have had nothing to fit in at all, all I
want is peace. I emphasize that. All I want is peace but
I cannot get peace in the world if I have to ask the
Western Powers, and powers in other parts of the world,
to sacrifice their principles and their spiritual beliefs
NATIONAL
in order to fit in with something with which they do not
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agree.
SERVICE*
Mr. Scollan: May I ask the Foreign Secretary to clear up
one point? Was the right honourable gentleman aware of,
or informed of these negotiations which we have now been
forced on the public, that obviously have a tremendous
propaganda value from the Soviet point of view? Was the
Foreign Secretary aware that these negotiations were going
on?
Mr. Bevin: No I was not. I did not know anything about
them until I heard about them on the radio on Monday
morning. But this is one of the problems, as I understand
it. The Ambassador of the United States was instructed to
have an exchange of views with the Foreign Minister of the
Soviet Union. That is the normal thing, but before the
United States received the reply, it was published over
the Tass agency. I suggest to this House that while that
diplomatic
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