RUSSIANS THINK WAR WITH THE WEST IS INEVITABLE
WASHINGTON, April 16 (Bee. 8 pm).—The Russians still believed that war with the West was inevitable. said General Walter Bedell-Smith, former United States Ambassador to Moscow, in a broadcast interview. He said that everything the Communists did and said indicated that they (lid not believe that they could get along with capitalism. General Bedell-Smit'n said that while he did not believe the Russians had the atomic bomb in quantity production. he thought they had the principle in theiifuotebooks.” He added: “Soviet science is as good as any in the ■world.” He dismissed a prediction that the Red Army could sweep through Europe in two or three weeks. “The Russian Army is a magnificent organisation, but difficulties of supply in a long and rapid advance are enormous. The Russians have always foug'nt well in defence of Mother Russia, but the Red Army has not been an aggressive army.”
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Wanganui Chronicle, 18 April 1949, Page 5
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