AMERICA AND RUSSIA
BREAK IN RELATIONS DEMANDED
SPEECH IN U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES (Rec. 10 p.m.) WASHINGTON, April 15. A demand that the United States should immediately break off diplomatic relations with Russia was made in the United States House of Representatives to-day by Mr John Rankin (Democrat, Mississippi), who is a member of the Committee on UnAmerican Activities.
“We cannot halt Communism and dictatorship all over the world with soup kitchen diplomacy,” said Mr Rankin. “Communism is not a system of government but a system of crime. While we have the atomic bomb and while the United States is the world’s leading nation, we should tell the Soviet that these international crimes must stop. “If the United States takes positive, action, it will be only a matter of time before the decent people of Russia rise and overthrow their government and replace it with one in which the people of the world can have confidence.”
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Press, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 25161, 17 April 1947, Page 7
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