PUSHING PEACE
RUSSIA DOES NOT FEAR WAR (Rec. 10.5 a.m.) LONDON, March 12. The Soviet Union will use atomic, energy for “building and defending Communism,” the deputy-Premier, Lazar Kaganovich, proclaimed in an election statement to Russia’s millions as they voted to-day for the new Supreme Soviet. “M." Stalin’s instruction that our science must not only not lag behind hut; overtake Bourgeois science is being carried out,” he told electors, according to a Tass dispatch received in London. Kaganovich added: “We are pursuing the policy of peace, but we -do not fear war.” —Reuter.
RUSSIA AND ATOMIC BOMB VISCOUNT MONTGOMERY’S STATEMENT (Rec. 10 a.m.) OSLO, March 12. Field-Marshall Viscount Montgomery, who arrived here to-night, said he personally did not know for certain if the Russians had produced the atomic bomb, although he had been told so. “We work on the assumption that the Russians have the atomic bomb, and if they have not, it will be so much beh ter,” he added.—Associated Press.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 70, Issue 126, 13 March 1950, Page 3
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