Western Europe Faces Grim Destruction if War Comes

Wanganui Chronicle, 3 October 1947, Page 5

Western Europe Faces Grim Destruction if War Comes

Special N.Z.P.A. ( oriespoiidciil Reed. 6 p.m. Loudon. Oct. 2 “The people,s of Western Europe are in imminent danger; of becoming helpless victims of a' conflict of giants, ’’ said Bertrand; Russell, lecturing Io the I'niver j sity of Amsterdam. He continued: “ For, wlia I ever j our policy we must perish as im-j portant nations if Russia and America, go to war.’’ Ji' war broke out aflci Russia acquired a store of atomic bombs.

! the western part of the continent | would he occupied by Russian ■ troops and Great Britain by ' Anfei-ieiin troops. America would bomb the Continent and Russia [bomb Great Britain. The next : war. therelore, if it cullies, would I see the end of Western Europe. . except as a site for a few military outposts. "11l \ iew of I he present intransigence of the Soviet Govern- , nient,” Mr. Russell continued,

“it is to be expected that when Russia has a store of atomic bombs demands will be put I‘ori ward m China, Persia. Greece and perhaps North Africa, which America will resent, probably to a point of risking war. Our only Ruopp lies in the creation of such international machinery as would make war much less likely. America has proposed such action. Russia alone hitherto has iopposed it.”