BRACERS Record Detail for 132473
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This copy of BR's statement was enclosed with his letter of 29 Nov. 1948 to Ben Blaker (record 58137). The letter and the statement are in the Sidney Hook papers, Hoover Institution, Stanford University. It was published unchanged as "Lord Russell's Address", The Times, 30 Nov. 1948, p. 5.
BR TO THE TIMES, 29 NOV. 1948
BRACERS 132473. TS(X). Stanford U., Hoover Institution, Sidney Hook Papers. B&R C48.25
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An address which I recently gave at Westminster School has been widely misrepresented in many newspapers in this country and abroad. I did not, as has been reported, urge immediate war with Russia. I did urge that the democracies should be prepared to use force if necessary, and that their readiness to do so should be made perfectly clear to Russia, for it has become obvious that the Communists, like the Nazis, can only be halted in their attempts to dominate Europe and Asia by determined and combined resistance by every means in our power, not excluding military means if Russia continues to refuse all compromise.
