The World - News from Jan. 3, 1985
Former British Prime Minister Winston Churchill was deeply worried that the United States might start a world war in the 1950s and regarded U.S. bases on British soil as dangerous, according to previously secret British Cabinet documents released in London. The documents, from 1954, also say that the United States had proposed a nuclear strike on China if that nation intervened to help Vietnamese insurgents at Dien Bien Phu, where French paratroops were eventually dealt a humiliating defeat. Churchill reportedly refused to consider the plan.
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