"RUSSIA UNLIMITED"
Sin,—The last paragraph of Mr. Paul Winterton's article on "Russia Unlimited" perfectly expresses the truth about this matter as, I fancy, most Englishmen see it ; unless perhaps he should have recalled how Mr. Churchill, President Roosevelt and Mr. Stalin managed to collaborate in a situation hardly more critical than that which faces the world today. Perhaps collaboration with Russia can again be established at the highest level. Otherwise, the United Nations outside the Soviet system ought certainly not to wait any longer for a " Yes " from Mr. Molotov before they go ahead and make peace in the west outside the vast area where the Russian writ runs. How to set about it? The best way seems to me to use the United Nations' machinery after an agreement, or consti- tutional convention, between the non-Soviet States to act upon any "recommendation," not involving the use of force, made by seven members of the Security Council including at least three of the permanent members. Thus to elude the misuse of the veto (as in the removal of British and French troops from Syria) need not wreck the United Nations Organisation as a means of maintaining peace if Mr. Winterton is right, as I feel sure he is, in thinking that the Kremlin is no less determined that we are to avoid another war.—Your tv &c., The Athenaeum, S.W. i.• MAXWELL GARNETT.
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