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The U.S. President, Gen. Eisenhower has dismissed the idea of a "preventive war" against the Communist powers as ridiculous, completely unthinkable and impossible. Gen. Eisenhower, who was addressing a press conference in Washington on August 11, was asked about the possibility of a world war. He said that if the "free world" intelligently built up a structure really impervious to Communist assault, there would be no war. He also rejected the recent suggestions in U.S. Congress that the United States should sever diplomatic relations with the Soviet Union. A correspondent referred to the recent discussions in some U.S. newspapers of the possibility of a preventive war launched against the Communist powers to forestall a bigger world war. Gen. Eisenhower, replying at some length, began by referring to the talk of a preventive war in the early days of Hitler's expansion in Europe before the Second World War. He defined a preventive war as the waging of a quick police action to avoid a terrific cataclysm of destruction later. He said such a preventive war was impossible today. How could you have a preventive war if one of its features was several cities lying in ruins, he asked. That is not preventive war. It is war, Gen. Eisenhower said, adding that frankly he would not listen seriously to anyone who came in to talk about such a thing to him. Later, when the President was asked whether he was referring to a preventive war in purely military terms, he replied that the term "preventive war" was by definition ridiculous in itself. There were all sorts of reasons - political, moral and everything else - against this theory.
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