NIGHTMARISH RAVINGS
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Russian Journal Dismisses Mr.Fraser's Speech
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Received Mdndetyj ,10>30 a.m. / . MO^COW, Jiine 1&. ; "it. is. lionsense to'suggekt that thb Sovie't Uniori threatens Nbw Ze'aland," says the Soviet Trade Uriioii journal, Trud. It dismisses as "wild, nightmarish ravings and .lysterics," the recent speech by the Priiiie, Mr. Fetef Frasei, in whicii, it says, he tried to' jtis'tify the prbvposal to intrdduce iitiiversal conscpiption:. Trud says that if Mr. Fraser continues in such ' a style he is iii danger of sharing the fate of Mr. Jame^ Forrestal, of the Uhited States, who began with similar raving statements and ended by jump:ng frdln the sixteenth floor of a psydhiatric hbspital. Trud, qiioting Mr. Fraser's statement bh the possibility of a Pacific Pact, , said : "No single eountry in the Far East threatehs New Zealahd. This ihcludes the U.S.S.R."
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Chronicle (Levin), 20 June 1949, Page 5
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