No Menace
Fears that the programme might set off an international arms race or provoke the Soviet Union to war were groundless. “What is proposed is not a vast increase in the armies of Western Europe, but the supplying of certain key items of arms and equipment for the very modest forces which the Europeans have already provided for in their budgets. :;tf their budgets,” he continued. “The Soviet Government is well aware that those forces are for defence purposes only, and cannot possibly menace the Soviet Union.” Pointing out that the United States was asserting positive leadership of the free world, Mr Acheson warned that failure to provide military assistance would weaken confidence in the United States, and- “would hearten those who seek, by unremitting pressure, to wear down or overwhelm all who resist the imposition of an alien and abhorrent system,”
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Northern Advocate, 29 July 1949, Page 5
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