WHO SPEAKS OF ANOTHER WAR?
IIUNDRED S OF THOUSANDS STILL IN DUGOUTS Reeeived Sundav, 7.40 p.m. LONDON, June 9. "Anvone who talks of tlie next war sliould bo.gaoled. You liave seen whai war has done to our republie so ean understand wliy it is ridiculous to think we want another war," said Byelorussia's Foreign Minister, Air. Kuzmo Kisclev, when speaking- in Moseow to a party of correspoiidents who, for the (ir.st. time, are visiting Byelorussia to see liow ITnrra relief is progressing. v Mr. Kiselev said Byelorussia still had2,000,000 peasants without homes. Ifundreds of thousands were living j.n dugouts in towns. Threequarters of the. Minsk Republie 's capital was a pile oi' mbble. Mr. Kiselev explained tlialg. ygconstruetion was moving slowly because of the completeness of the Germans' wreckage and lack of equipment, building materials and manpower. One oi the most urgent needs was traetors ot which the Germans stole 8000. Everywhere, says Reuter's correspondent, tliere is the grim panorama of sliattered towns and blighted eountryside. Restoration to normaley, aec.ord-. , ing to officials, will talce fifteen to [ twenty years.
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Chronicle (Levin), 10 June 1946, Page 5
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179WHO SPEAKS OF ANOTHER WAR? Chronicle (Levin), 10 June 1946, Page 5
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