WAR SEEMS INEVITABLE
Australian Staff Chiefs Belief NZPA—Copyright MELBOURNE, Oct. 14. “ Russia wants world domination by Soviet Communism. We have to get used to the fact that some of us will be involved in another war,” said the Chief of the Australian General Staff, Lieutenant-general V. A. H. Sturdee, in an address to the British Empire Society to-day. “The only direct rival to Russia is the. United States, and without her I do not know what could be done.” , .
General Sturdee added that the United States must take the leadership of the Western Allies, and the British Empire must get used to being second fiddle.
If Russia judged conditions suitable she would go to war, although she believed she could gain her ends by action short of war.
“Russia does not believe capitalism and Communism can live in tne same world.” said General Sturdee. "There is no basis for peace in a world divided by two irreconcilable ideologies, neither of which trusts the other.”
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 27212, 15 October 1949, Page 7
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