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of that abuse of language which makes all Communist statements so suspect. The Russian people, who, like other people of the world, would no doubt prefer to think well of other nations, are told of ' pitiful slums and stuffy workshops' in London, Paris and New York, where seven- and eight-year-old children toil day and night, their faces emaciated and weakened.' The Red Fleet alleges that in 1951 British servicemen, and in particular British marines, were engaged in-what do you think?-engaged in spreading leprosy in the northern areas of Korea.
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Mr. Selwyn Lloyd (Minister of State)—United Nations General Assembly 24th September, 1953
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On the other side of the Iron Curtain there has been the belief in the suppression of human liberties in the interests of the State, in monolithic unity at home-to use the phrase we heard on Monday-and in the forcible overthrow of existing systems of society in the rest of the world; or to put it shortly, in the classic Communist aim of the world revolution. .
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Mr. Eden (Foreign Secretary)—To the National Union of Conservative and Unionist Associations, 18th March, 1954
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Soviet Russia has, of course, no bases in foreign lands. They merely occupy those lands and lay on them the dread tyranny of Soviet rule.
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The Soviet attitude to German rearmament is quite cynical. Under the guise of police there is an East German army consisting of 90,000 men. addition, there is a navy 6,000 strong, and an air force, called the 'people's air force,' training on Soviet aircraft. In view of these facts the Russian campaign to deny Western Germany the opportunity to have any military forces at all is just cynical.
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Sir Winston Churchill (Prime Minister)-At Woodford, 23rd November, 1954 . This vast reversal of British, American and European opinion concerning the role of Germany in the West was brought about only by the policy of Soviet Russia itself and above all by Stalin, the dictator, who was carried away by the triumphs of victory and acted as if he thought he could secure for Russia and Communism the domination of the world..
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SECRET
C.P. (55) 198
10th December, 1955
CABINET
COPY NO. 63
ANGLO-SOVIET RELATIONS
Note by the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs
With reference to C. P. (55) 197 about the Soviet leaders' speeches in India and Burma, I circulate for the information of my colleagues the latest draft of the programme prepared by Lord Reading's Committee for the visit of Mr. Bulganin and Mr. Khrushchev to the United Kingdom next spring.
Foreign Office, S. W.1.
9th December, 1955.
Date
Sunday,
15th April
H. M.
Day
Place
Activities
London
Arrival of Soviet
Monday,
1st Day
London
16th April