TEST BAN TREATY
Confidence In Russia (N.Z. Press Association)' DUNEDIN, Aug. 25. Great confidence that Russia would honour her part of the recent test ban treaty was expressed by Sir Leslie Munro in Dunedin on Saturday. Sir Leslie Munro, New Zealand's Ambassador to the United Nations from 1952 to 1958, said the Soviet Union would not dare to incur the wrath of the United States by breaking the treaty. "I think the United States is overwhelmingly stronger in the nuclear field and the Soviet Union knows it," he said.
Sir Leslie Munro said he thought the Soviet Union was most anxious to avoid nuclear war which would lead “in all probability to the destruction of the human race." He believed there was no danger of a betrayal by the Soviet Union such as in 1939 by Hitler. The ideological warfare would of course continue, he said, but the real danger lay with communist China.
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Press, Volume CII, Issue 30219, 26 August 1963, Page 12
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