RUSSIA FORCED TO INCREASE FORCES, SAYS MARSHAL
(11 a.m.) LONDON, Feb. 21. Marshal of the Soviet Union Govorov, in an article put out by the Tass news agency said the British and American ruling circles were concocting plans for a new world war and creating all kinds of military alliances and blocs aimed against the Soviet. “These wild plans of the new pretenders to world domination are doomed to failure but the tension of the present international situation created as a result of the provocative policy of the imperalists imperatively impels us to increase our efforts for the further strengthening of the defensive might of the U.S.S.R. “The Soviet people, fulfilling the Stalin five-year plan, are endeavouring to raise the economic and military might of the U.S.S.R.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 22877, 22 February 1949, Page 7
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127RUSSIA FORCED TO INCREASE FORCES, SAYS MARSHAL Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 22877, 22 February 1949, Page 7
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