BRITAIN’S War Prime Minister, Mr. Winston Churchill, speaking on Wednesday [June 5] … in the House of Commons of Russia’s “iron curtain” said, “It is here that seeds of a new world war are being sown,” according to a Reuter message.

Not only had curtain descended from the Baltic to the Adriatic, but behind it was a broad band of territory containing nearly one-third of the population of Europe, apart from Russia. Efforts were being to Sovietise all the Soviet occupied zone of Germany.

“Deep and widespread sorrow,” Mr. Churchill said, “has been caused in Britain by the decline of contact and goodwill between our country and Russia. We seek nothing from Russia except goodwill, and we would do our parts in coming to her aid with such resources as we have if her just rights and safety were assailed.

“It cannot be in the interest of Russia to go on irritating the United States. Even in this country, Soviet propaganda has been … making headway backwards. I would not have believed it possible in a single year for the Soviet Government … to chill so many friendships in the English speaking world… .”

Published in Dawn, June 6th, 2021