The Nome Nugget

Stevenson Calls For Peace Parley Efforts With Reds

By JACK BELL

CHICAGO, (P)--Eisenhower administration officials were silent today on a proposal by Adlai E. Stevenson that the United States seize the cold war initiative by offering Russia a double-dyed non-aggression pact and a chance to agree on disarmament.

Stevenson, the 1952 Democratic nominee, told a cheering throng of Democrats who overflowed Chicago's 3,650-seat Civic Opera House last night that "the door to the conference room is the door to peace."

The former Illinois governor laid down -- with the backing of former President Truman, Sen Sparkman (D-Ala) and other party leaders - a challenge to President Eisenhower to "think afresh" about offering the Soviets "durable assurances of non-aggression."

If Russia puts impossible conditions on the acceptance of any non-aggression guarantee or declines to participate in an effective disarmament plan. Stevenson said this would saddle onto Moscow the blame for continuance of the cold war.

There was no immediate reaction from Eisenhower's summer headquarters in Denver. the United Nations delegation in New York or official circles in Washington to the Democratic leader's suggestion.

In an interview, Sparkman interpreted Stevenson's statements as "a challenge to Russia to sit down with us at the conference (Continued on Page Two)
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table.

Stevenson told the nation that
in an era where "things are bet-
ter" for the free world in Europe
and "there is hope in the air," the
United States cannot afford to be
"reluctant to enter
any peace-
promising conference.

Stevenson's proposals paralled
in some respects those made
by
Eisenhower last April 16 when
the President demanded that Rus-
sia show by deeds, and not words,
the good faith of its peace feelers.