BRACERS Record Detail for 65271
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In Russian with an English translation.
Khrushchev responds to a letter from U.S. Secretary of State John Foster Dulles, published in the New Statesman on 8 February 1958. Dulles had called Soviet suggestions to end the arms race "Communist propaganda".
Khrushchev outlines his view of the "present international situation" and defends the history of Communism, stating that "only short-sighted people can think that the ideas of Communism can be destroyed by war."
In response to the attitudes of Dulles and others who fear a Soviet attack, Khrushchev comments "come to your senses, gentlemen—what makes you think that the Soviet Union intends to attack the Western powers? Why do you deceive your own people?"
Also present, in addition to the translated copy, are a TL(TC) and a TL(CAR).
