Trawlers in England build for the Soviet Union according to the Dutch newspaper De Waarheid dated 26 November 1953

An item dated London 26 November reported that the British cabinet allowed British firms to built thirty trawlers for the Soviet Union. The minister of navy announced this opinion in the Parliament. There were a lot of protests against the building also in the American newspapers. Some opponents were afraid that the ships were converted into minesweepers after being handed over to the Soviet Union. The newspaper said that this was just an excuse.

Note

1. De Dutch newspaper De Waarheid was the newspaper published by the Dutch Communist party dating from 1940 as a resistance paper since the Netherlands were occupied by Germany. In fact it succeeded an earlier newspaper of the party titled Volksdagblad. On 28 April 1990 the newspaper was for the last time published on paper, although since 2001 there is a digital version. In the Netherlands were in the fifties also merchant ships (the Lena, Yenisei and so on) built for the Soviet Union. In that period was the Cold War (1947-1991) going on with the United Kingdom and the Netherlands as part of the Western World and the Soviet Union as part of the Communist World.