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THE PRESIDENT:
QQ.
(Unna).
Yes.
I wonder if you could tell us, sir, when you
think the military will begin stockpiling the relatively
Clean bomb?
THE PRESIDENT:
Well, I think that as quickly as they are
produced in quantity, they begin to stockpile those. But
that does not mean that you can immediately go back over
all of your old ones and get them revised.
time.
That takes
But they are stocking whatever the cleanest bomb
they have at the moment -- they have stocked up on it.
Q.
David Sentner, Hearst Newspapers.
Mr. President,
would you tell us whether correspondence between you and
Marshal Zhukov has lapsed?
THE PRESIDENT:
Well, except for one personal exchange as
a polite amenity following the Geneva conference, I have
had no direct communication with Admiral Zhukov -- with
Marshal Zhukov, I think it was April, 1946.
All of the opinions and statements I have ever made to you
people about the Marshal were based upon,
I have carefully
explained, my six months' connection with him in 1945. So,
since then, I have had no direct communication with hin.
Q.
(Sentner).
Could you give us any idea of the sub-
stance of those past communications, particularly relevant
to the current disarmament discussions‘
THE PRESIDENT:
Well, I certainly would not want to guess
at them now. I would have to go back, because they had
nothing to do with -- this is 1946, and that is eleven
years ago, and I -- I wouldn't want -- they had nothing to
do with disarmament, except that he did have this feeling
that America and Russia were the two peoples who should
try to devise plans and more or less induce others to
conform.
But that was, I say, a long time ago and I know
nothing about his convictions at the moment.
Q.
(Smith, United Press).
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END
Thank you, Mr. President.
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