RUSSIAN PLANS FOR FUTURE
POSSIBLE USE OF DIVERSION
“EMBROILMENT OF U.S. WITH CHINA”
(Rec. 8 p.m.) LONDON, August 19. “The Times” in a leading article says that at the very best many months must..pass before the Allied forces in Korea can be strengthened and equipped to throw back the invaders. “It would be rash to expect that the Russians will allow that time to elapse without a diversion of some kind, probably still seeking to avoid war themselves, but using other forces on the fringe of their orbit as they did in Korea.
“The greatest of those forces is China. Nothing would serve Russian interests better than if Communist China was embroiled with the United States in a war that drained American strength away from the areas of highest strategic importance in the Middle East and Europe. “It is prudent to assume that such embroilment is counted by the Kremlin as its supreme interest at the moment.”
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Press, Volume LXXXVI, Issue 26196, 21 August 1950, Page 7
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