AMERICA PROPOSES, RUSSIA OPPOSES.

Chronicle (Levin), 3 October 1947, Page 5

AMERICA PROPOSES, RUSSIA OPPOSES.

Received Thursday, 7.0 p.m.' • .LONDON, Oct. 2. The peoples of "Western Europe .are in imminent danger of becoming the helpless victim of a con flict of giants, said the Rt. Hon Bertrand Russell when lecturing to the University of Amsterdam. Iie continued: "For whatever out policy we must perish as import ant nations if Russia and America go towards war." If war broke out ai'tej- Russia acquired a. store of atomie bombs, the western part of the continent would "be occupied by Russian troops and Great Britain by American troops. America would bomb the Continent and Russia would bomb Great Britain. The war, therefore, if it comesr would see the end of "Western Europe except as the site for a few military outposts. "In view of the present intransigence of the • Soviet Government,'r he continued, "it is to be expected that when Russia has a store of atomie bombs, demands will be put forward in China, Persia, Greece and perhaps North Africa which America will resent probably to the point of risking war. Our only hope lies in the creation of such international machinery as would make war much less likely. America has proposed such action. Russia alone hitherto has opposed it."