STORBRITANNIEN. Ben 22 Oktober (e;pl*,,. Lo.ndonradi.Qn) The Times points out th at although the Berlin^ e leot ins were merely to chose municipal couTxCils, they were in effect a p leb isc ite for r gainst the Comiriuuist party and by im plicatioir fr, or against Russia'. Ahd, says the Times, four f if th s of a l l B erliners re - jected Co-mmunism and Russia, The moral of the re su lt is p lain for * t;he Russians-to see* But, says the Times., Communism does not bow t o' m ajrity voting* Last y e a r'svot ings in Hungary and Austria were equally decisiv rjections c Communism* Their effect however, was merely to sharpen Rossian policy in those two coun- The Daily Mirror says th r t the presence of a democratic way of life d e a r l y ex pressed in the B erlin elections puts a new resp o n sib ility on the occupying powers* They must make democracy a re a lity in Germany, which is at present fa r from the case< If they do not, and a break-up of G-ermany comes, the Germans w ill biarne the very demo- crate fo r whom they hav now voted* Jun 24 oktober (enl# Londonradion) B ritish newspapeis th is morning link the speech by President Truman at the opening of the General Assembly with those by Mr. Att lee, Mrf Bevin and Mx* Churchill during the B ritish House of Commons debate on foreign affairs* The Times says th at th is meeting of the General Assembly marks the re a l s ta rt of the UeN* work,; The paper deprecates a ny tendency to tre a t the with cynism or unconcern merely beoause of the troubled state of the world and owing to recent deadlocks in the Security Council, Relations between the Great Powers hav spe c ia l value fo r the economic approach to European problems and the d e sira b ility of closer association between the nation of Western Commenting on Mr_._^hurchill' s question in the House of Commons as to whether there were ver two hundred Soviet divisions on a war foot ing in European occupied countries, the Times says it is d istressin g that confidence between A llies should hav de- clined to the point where they publicly debate each other' s state of m obilisation. But *!/ie m atter v/as started by the Russians with a sim ilar request to the Security Council about B ritish and American forces, The Incident shows how import ant it is th at 7