WAR INEVITABLE
BELIEF OF RUSSIANS COMMUNIST OPPOSITION TO CAPITALISM Rec. 9 p.m. WASHINGTON. Apl. 16. The Russians still believed war with the West was inevitable, said General Walter Bedell Smith, former United States ambassador to Moscow, in a broadcast interview. He said everything the Communists did and said indicated that they did not believe they could get along with capitalism. General. Smith said that while he did not believe the Russians had the atomic bomb in quantity production, he thought they had “ the principle in their notebooks,” adding: “Soviet science is as good as any in the world.” He dismissed predictions that the Red Army could sweep through Europe in two or three weeks. “ The Russian army is a magnificent organisation, but the difficulties of supply in a long and rapid advance are enormous. The Russians have always fought well in the defence of Mother Russia, but the Red Army has not been an aggressive army.”
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 27058, 18 April 1949, Page 5
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