25 APRIL 1952, Page 5

Mr. H. S. Stokes, a Glastonbury business-man and a Quaker,

who was one of the British contingent at the recent economic conference at Moscow, has talked about it to the Daily Express. With one of his observations I find myself in such complete accord that I take leave to quote it here. " Free exchange of trade," said Mr. Stokes, " will do more to cut out the jamming-stations and the hidden microphones than all the pious resolutions of the intellectual pacifist." I have not the least doubt of the truth of that. If the British visitors succeeded in any degree in opening up the channels of trade —it is not Britain that has dammed them—they will have made war so much the more remote.

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