BOMB THE KREMLIN: VIEWS OF FORMER U.S. AMBASSADOR

Greymouth Evening Star, 14 October 1947, Page 5

BOMB THE KREMLIN: VIEWS OF FORMER U.S. AMBASSADOR

WASHINGTON, October 13.

A former United States Arhbassaddr to Rumania and Turkey, Mr George Earle, said in a broadcast interview that he would settle the Russian problem by dropping one atomic bomb on the Kremlin. “This bomb would free the Russian people from the slavery which now engulfs them. It would not harm the Russian people. It would only cure the cancer,” he declared. ■ Mr Earle admitted • that countless innocent Russans would be killed, but. he compared his proposal with the medical operation to amputate an arm’and save the body.

Mr Earle reported “on the highest authority” that Russia once threatened to seize the Dardanelles and was notified by the United States that such a step would mean war. He declined to reveal the authority, but said he would disclose it before a Congressional committee if requested to do so under oath. Mr Earle said that he had been “yanked out” of Turkey by President Roosevelt in March, 1945, when he “threatened to tell the American people about what Russia was doing in Europe.” He claimed that Germany, late in 1944, approached him with an offer of unconditional surrender provided the United States kept out of Europe. The Germans even offered to place their troops under American command. " ~ “I referrerd it to Mr Roosevelt, but he turned it down,” he said. Mr Earle said he was proud that Mr Vyshinsky had recently placed him on the list of war-mongers. He likened American foreign policy to “a drunken woman who staggers a little, makes some ineffectual remarks, and then scratches herself.