Common Interest

Anthony Eden last week told the House of Commons what he could about his talks in Moscow with Cordell Hull and Viacheslav Molotov and his subsequent conference with Turkey's Numan Menemencioglu. He made two salient points: 1) knotty issues still remain to be settled; 2) because the U.S.S.R., Great Britain and the U.S. have assumed the final responsibility for reshaping Europe, they must have unfettered freedom to make the final decisions.*Said he:

"There were no major political questions in Europe which were not subject to discussion between us in some form or other. I am not going to pretend for a moment that we agreed on every point. ... In the spirit of good will which has now been established, we can reasonably hope to make progress. . . .

"I emphasize again that [the tri-power European Advisory Commission] is an advisory, not an executive, body. . . . It is a piece of machinery set up for the convenience of the three Governments. It is not an instrument for imposing their views on others. [But] on . . . these three powers principally . . . will lie the responsibility for insuring that this war be followed by lasting peace. . . .

"The Anglo-American-Soviet Union association ... is based on the firmest of all foundations--common interest. The three countries have the same strong interest in peace, the same interest in securing that no aggressor shall again break the peace."

*In Cairo, a junction point between London, Washington and Moscow, British authorities suddenly requisitioned the Mena hotel, acted as though they were readying it for all-important guests to be in residence or in transit.

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