AMERICAN ATOM WEAPONS

Press, Volume LXXXVI, Issue 26030, 6 February 1950, Page 7

AMERICAN ATOM WEAPONS

RUSSIAN COMMENT NEW BOMB DESCRIBED AS “MYTH” (Rec. 8 p.m.) LONDON, February 4. The first Russian comment on President Truman’s announcement that the United States would attempt to produce a hydrogen bomb was made last night by the Moscow radio in an English language broadcast. The radio described the bomb as “a myth intended for export beyond the United States’ border.” The broadcast added: “American diplomacy, having failed completely with its atom bomb blackmail, is looking for a new bogy to scare the fainthearted, but it certainly will not succeed m alarming the peoples of the world with its fairy tales about the hydrogen bomb.” Yesterday, the Soviet Foreign Minister (Mr A. J. Vyshinsky) that in a period of all kinds of devaluation Russia had accomplished the most important devaluation— the devaluation of the atom bomb.

Mr Vyshinsky continued: “The correctness of the path taken by the Russian people, and confidence in Russian s un d e r Mr Stalin, contrast with the nervousness, war hysteria and adventurism of the reactionary' aggressive circles of certain countries, principally Britain and the United States. “Remember Mr Stalin’s warning before the war: ‘Those who attack our hn’J?u v « et .such a crushing rebuff that they will not be tempted to Poke their pigs snouts into our vegetable garden.’ ” *