Soviet leader sends warning to thewest over warmongering as tensions rise

This edition of The Post covered the tragic story of a boy falling to his death will looking for bird nests.

It reported: “The coroner said at the Llandudno inquest yesterday

The Post simply refers to the Soviet leader of the day as Mr Khrushchev.

And, with Cold War tensions at a low ebb, it is little wonder that readers would be familiar with Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchev, as the western world closely monitored Soviet developments.

“Mr Khrushchev said Russia had suspended ‘till further orders’ the reduction of the armed forces planned for this year on a boy who fell 150 feet to his death while bird nesting on the Great Orme: ‘Short of something impracticable, like putting a fence around the whole mountain, there because of ‘the military steps of America and her Nato allies’,” the front page of July 9, 1961, reported.

“He also announced that Russia has decided to increase defence allocations by £1,257 million to a total of £4,960m. Mr Khrushchev contended that these measures had been forced on Russia because the war budgets of the Nato countries were growing. He also appealed to President Kennedy, Mr Macmillan is nothing one can do to stop from going to dangerous places like this.’

“The boy’s sister and a friend said that, after climbing to a ledge to look at baby seagulls in a nest, and President de Gaulle to ‘display wisdom in the settlement of the German question, to sit down at the conference table together and conclude a peace treaty’.

“Mr Khrushchev added: ‘It is best for those who think of war not to imagine that distances will save them. If the imperialists unleash a war, it will end with their complete debacle and ruin. Mankind will end once and for all the system which gives rise to aggressive wars.’” they returned to the top of the cliffs. Soon afterwards they called to him and when he did not reply they looked over the cliffs and saw him lying on the roadway below.”

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