user: in: By. Rob Cooper. PUBLISHED:. 04:31 EST, 4 June 2013. |. UPDATED:. 05:18 EST, 4 June 2013. Curiosity may have killed the cat but it caused just a little bit of embarrassment for this inquisitive cow. The animal got its head stuck in a tree in the middle of a field in Monkmoor, Shropshire, yesterday afternoon. It took a team of six firefighters from Shropshire Fire and Rescue an hour-and-a-half to free the young bullock. Trapped: The bullock with its head stuck in the tree in the field in Shrewsbury. It later had to be rescued by the fire brigade using a specialist animal harness. Emergency workers initially tried to free the. animal using strops but were forced to admit defeat and use a harness. and a crane instead. Pictures taken at the scene show the team of firemen gathering around the hapless cow with specialist animal rescue equipment. After being winched up and released. from the tree, the animal was said to be distressed but uninjured and. was later reunited with it's herd in a nearby field. Neil Grove, Shrewsbury station manager for Shropshire Fire and Rescue Service, said: 'It was a very strange incident indeed. Rescue mission: Five firefighters surround the bullock as it is fitted with the specialist harness and attacked to a crane. The bullock was later lifted up and released from the tree distressed but uninjured. 'What he was looking for, I don’t know. and we don’t know how long he was in there. Manual lifting didn’t work. because of the way his head was trapped. 'It's normal to cover animals’ heads. during rescues to keep them in the dark for as long as possible -. because this helps them to stay calm. 'But on this occasion, with the cow’s. head in the tree it was not really necessary. His head was in the bottom. of the tree which was quite dark. 'He was relatively calm while we were. there. The cow ran off once we got him out – he didn’t stay around to. thank us. He was bemused but appeared uninjured.' A spokesman for Shropshire Fire and. Rescue Service added: 'On arrival the officer in charge. assessed the situation and attempts were made initially to release the. animal using strops and various equipment from the Shrewsbury. appliance. 'These attempts proved unsuccessful,. so a specialist large animal harness, with a quick release mechanism,. was used in conjunction with the Hiab crane on the rescue tender. 'The cow was successfully lifted up and released from the tree.'
out: The animal was rescued from a field in Monkmoor in Shropshire. It took a team of six firemen an hour-and-a-half to free the young bullock.
Question: Winston Churchill urged the United States to launch a nuclear attack on the Soviet Union to win the Cold War, a newly released document reveals. The previously unseen memorandum from the FBI archives details how Britain’s wartime leader made his views known to a visiting American politician in 1947. Churchill believed a pre-emptive strike on Stalin’s Russia might be the only way to stop Communism conquering the West. Russian leader Joseph Stalin (left) and Winston Churchill (right) in 1945 - he urged the US to launch a nuclear attack on the Soviet Union to win the Cold War. The note, written by an FBI agent, reports that Churchill urged Right-wing Republican Senator Styles Bridges to persuade President Harry Truman to launch a nuclear attack which would ‘wipe out’ the Kremlin and make the Soviet Union a ‘very easy problem’ to deal with. The Russians would have been defenceless against a nuclear attack at that time – they did not successfully test their own atomic bomb until 1949. Britain and the Soviet Union had been allies in the Second World War until 1945, the year Churchill lost office as Prime Minister. But he was one of the first international statesmen to recognise the post-war threat posed by the USSR, and in 1946 made a famous speech in Fulton, Missouri, about an ‘iron curtain’ having descended across Europe as Joseph Stalin consolidated his grip on the eastern half of the continent. The FBI document shows Churchill’s belligerence towards Britain’s former wartime ally ran so deep that he was prepared to tolerate the deaths of hundreds of thousands of Soviet civilians in a nuclear strike. Churchill believed a pre-emptive strike on Stalin’s Russia might be the only way to stop Communism conquering the West. The memo claims Churchill ‘stated that the only salvation for the civilisation of the world would be if the President of the United States would declare Russia to be imperilling world peace and attack Russia’. The note continues: ‘He pointed out that if an atomic bomb could be dropped on the Kremlin, wiping it out, it would be a very easy problem to handle the balance of Russia, which would be without direction. ‘Churchill further stated that if this was not done, Russia will attack the United States in the next two or three years when she gets the atomic bomb and civilisation will be wiped out or set back many years.’ The memo is published for the first time in a book called When Lions Roar: The Churchills And The Kennedys, by award-winning investigative journalist Thomas Maier. It is due to be published in Britain next month. John F. Kennedy regarded Churchill as his hero and made him an honorary American citizen in 1963 – the first person to be given such an accolade. The two families shared friends, such as Greek shipping magnate Aristotle Onassis, who married Jacqueline Kennedy after her husband’s assassination. Maier said: ‘Churchill had been a great historian of warfare. He saw the last great cavalry charge during the First World War and championed the development of tanks. ‘I think he saw a nuclear strike as just another progression of conventional warfare, until he realised there was a lot more devastation with nuclear weapons.’ Maier said Churchill was more ‘bellicose’ when out of office. After he returned to power in 1951, a nuclear attack against the USSR was never mentioned again.
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assistant: Britain's war-time leader urged the US to launch a nuclear attack on the Soviet Union to win the Cold War. He urged Senator Styles Bridges to persuade President Harry Truman to launch a nuclear attack. He believed a pre-emptive strike on Stalin's Russia might be the only way to stop Communism conquering the West.