BELIEVES SOVIETS DON'T WANT WAR

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• Document Creation Date: November 17, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 6, 2000
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WILL FIGHT- IF THEY MUST
Believes S~*ts
Don't Want. -War
WASHINGTON - (UPI) - o et' POWX FORM
is t!~ sar,nnd.bast or thiM.be^t do American on what
Amory Is. Aep"ty_ lot. "
..This well informed AWWI-
can making a speech the
other day in Columbia? S. C.
Anrb6Ws speech did not get
the publicity it deserved do-
spite the fact that *Mt he
had to say was pretty good
news for U: & citizens. -
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HIS STORY was- that the
Soviet Union is neither ready
nor preparing for a war; that
the Kremlin does not want a
war although Communist Rus--1
sfa would fight if It must.
Amory said the Russian
leaders Bedded 18 months
ago that. their Communist
economy had to have 15 years
of. peace to achieve their in-
ternal development plans.
"their economy is by no
means mobirised for war or.
preparing for war." Amory
said. "hey strike a balance
between military and other
expenditures Jost ae we do."
I planning.
sure in the areas ~aow dame
nated by CoMrnunirm.
-4m" dther flea Wb bweenlt a Sovie
Union and the United-S .~
or demand that ateUits
era sit beside Soviet con"
in numbers equal to the n - i
her of alike sittin* beside
---Maim in at high pitch
work o f trouble"
among the peoples of not
inunist nations.
this
column activity with so e
show of wulingness to
erats with go ~v ts
which the
no controL
-=Continue an effectivtl I r
eign pQIlcy of "no strip "
foreign aid toward nati is
which neither are Comm st
allies not. expected to teco 0'
allies.
He believes the Soviet Union
is not ready to risk a nuclear
war over Berlin. Niklta shchev, instead, thinks he=
force the West to "chicken
out."
" If the West -is resolute."
Amory said, "then I believe.
that the Soviet Union wul be
the ones to back down."
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DURING THIS 15 yearn of
peace. which Anadry is eon-1
vinced the Soviet Union must
have and urgently wants, the
j7AA IBcts the Kremlin to
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