SCANDINAVIAN BASES
Russia Proposes Liquidation
(N.Z. Press Association—Copyright) (Rec. 11 p.m.) MOSCOW, June 12.
The Soviet Prime Minister (Mr Nikita Khrushchev) yesterday proposed that Scandinavia and the Baltic Sea area should be made an atom and rocket-free zone, the official Soviet hews agency, Tass, reported last night. In a speech to 100,000 people at Riga, the Latvian • capital, which he is visiting with an East German delegation, Mr Khrushchev said the area must not become a zone of military conflict and suggested that Norway and Denmark had been drawn into N.A.T.O. “as the result of a misunderstanding.” Mr Khrushchev expressed his regret that the Western Powers had found unacceptable the Soviet proposals at Geneva for a 12-month time limit on their occupation rights in West Berlin.
He said the present inspirer of the positions of strength policy in the West was Dr. Konrad Adenauer, who was “killing himself trying to retain the post of West German Chancellor. “He does not even try to hide the fact that as holder of this post he proposes to fan the flames of the cold war,” he added.
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Press, Volume XCVIII, Issue 28920, 13 June 1959, Page 13
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