NATO’s Role In War Prevention
(N.Z Press Association —Copyright) COPENHAGEN, September 20. The Supreme Commander, Allied Forces in Europe, General Alfred Gruenther. said in Copenhagen today that he thought that the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation would achieve its object of preventing a third world war. Making his last visit to Denmark before his retirement from his post. General Gruenther said: “In the classical sense of the word there is no more winning any wars today.” “A third world war would be a catastrophe for civilisation. “What we are trying to do in NATO is to build defences which will make an act of aggression so expensive as to prevent it being committed.” Even if Russia carried out her announced reductions in armed forces, the Soviet capability for a surprise attack was “still very significant,” General Gruenther said*
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Press, Volume XCIV, Issue 28080, 22 September 1956, Page 7
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