GERMAN NOTE TO RUSSIA
Reply To Claim By Khrushchev
'N.Z. Press Association—Copyright) BONN, August 30.
The West German Chancellor (Dr. Konrad Adenauer) yesterday replied in a seven-page letter to a Note he received from the Soviet Prime Minister (Mr Nikita Khrushchev) on August 18, the West German Foreign Ministry announced in Bonn. The Foreign Ministry said the letter, which was handed to the Soviet Ambassador in Bonn (Mr Smirnov) would be published next Monday. In his Note Mr Khrushchev referred to the “dangerous consequences” of equipping the West German forces with nuclear and rocket weapons. He noted that “the mam forces spearheaded against the U.S.S.R. were stationed in W est Germany, France, and Britain.” Mr Khrushchev added: “Under these circumstances the use of thermonuclear weapons in the event of war would produce not merely a disaster, but the destruction of all and everything on the territory of the Federal German Republic.” But he also called for the utilisation of prospects for the establishment of good-neighbour relations and “co-operation in the interest of peace between West Germany and the Socialist countries.”
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Press, Volume XCVIII, Issue 28987, 31 August 1959, Page 15
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