the entire globe even as it trembles and passion with the birth of a new nation and shrinks in the hand of a dispassionate science is today the site of a momentous conflict as each side attempts to prove to the world these are perry our idea of its position the conflict is fraught with the words of diplomats with gestures of friendship and help to uncommitted countries even with cultural demonstrations it is fog indeed on every level of man's experience for the stakes are high as one of the adversaries in the conflict we see a challenge as great as any in our historic past i challenge you not we hope to be met and joined in battle but to be faced  for a little while i would like to review with you the great conflict of our times one which demands and must got the attention and the involvement of each one of us this conflict is the reason why most of you are in uniform and some of you will be going overseas servicemen families of servicemen and civilians working for the department of defense because of this conflict many of you are already abroad more than a million americans in ninety one foreign countries first and foremost of course americans are overseas to help preserve the peace by maintaining an alert readiness to meet the threats of aggression america's armed forces in concert with those of its allies are serving as a deterrent to going some of you may wonder how directly involved in the contest you are or will be perhaps your active duty is behind you or soon will be and with it you may believe your involvement in the contest and but the truth is that involvement in this conflict is far ranging indeed it touches not only members of the armed forces and their families but everyone who supports the mission of the armed forces every defense worker every taxpayer over the bailed who in fact is not involved and the conflict itself how can it be defined well let's look at it this way the communist bloc would like to see the entire world under communist domination over the years as the strength and determination of the free world has gradually convinced communist leaders that aggressive war would be a reckless and costly gamble and they ha to talk more and more about their ability to win from us in the arena of ideas this of course is fine with us but we are a people with a traditionally great faith in our ideas the ideas that have move this confidence by itself without effort does not win contests victory in this conflict depends on much much more than confidence it is a contest unlike any we have ever faced in our history as a nation it is total competition with an antagonist who is putting into it everything within his capability it is not a conflict between people who much between basic values and systems of government between the principals of life each believes in and we talk of these conflicting values we are obliged just speaks on that special party which we call for want of a better phrase individual liberty and when we talk of this liberty in america we talk with many voices for we are a diverse nation and there are perhaps as many concepts of one america as there are people among us but although we look at america through different eyes there are many insights into the essence of our moving and growing nation that we share i'm john wayne is there any better or equal hope in the world lincoln asked than the ultimate justice of the people we americans believe there is not a star like of our nation our life is made of this belief we believe in many things but this belief that man is a responsible being bears out our own unique stamp as a nation as a people we are right off the noise we are industr we are proud we are sentimental individual freedom and divine perhaps better than any other but not about the conflict between the opposing systems of values which sweep the world today that praises this nation under god that phrase and others like it that the standard of our concept of man as a creature god man is being with dignity and conscience where the ability to determine right from wrong and the obligation to act on that right from this bill a thin man as a responsible being for all the beliefs and his other qualifications which we accept usually even without bothering to think about them as bribes or that they can opposing point of view in this conflict rests on a fundamentally different vision of man as a creature not of god but of the state in this system the value of individual man the nation sharply and the state these are the contrasting points of your between the major antagonist in the conflict which has become known over the last decade as the cold war for an appraisal of this continuing and protracted conflict we can go to a reporter who has watched the growing conflict with the perception of a trained military observer and i am a handsome boy when i have hear the policy statements of each of our services on the contest we are engaged in with the communists what they boil down to is this is a contest for the minds and hearts of people around the world all people inflate on this map represent the part of the world composed of ourselves and those who share our beliefs the common is see constantly to win an advantage in the minds of the people here and to separate us the black portion of the map is the communist dominated part of the world controlled by the soviet union and the chinese communist regime and of tremendous importance is that part of the world which is attached to domination by a foreign power or they are still seeking independence a strong tide of nationalism sweeps over this thought of the world and with it a mistrust of anything they feel is associated with the old ways of colonialist are not committed to either side in the conflict our own policy toward them has been one strictly watchful non intrusive friendship getting help when help is asked for but otherwise keeping hands off their internal affairs the communists have been more direct their local party members have not hesitated to exploit to their own advantage the passions that smolder in the new states and to identify themselves in the minds of the people there whenever possible with anti colonialism and us with its opposite it is part of their worldwide technique how do our military services adapt themselves to this conflict in which perhaps no gun may be fired by recognizing that the activities and performances of all of the members in every foreign country in which they are station add to detract from the good will our nation needs in this contest for the respect of the peoples of the world the president of the united states has called development so good relationships between united states citizens abroad and members of the host country is basic to the form of payment of our foreign policy objectives and the services have responded by promoting such good relationships as part of their overall  free world was weak enough for them to risk it whatever the degree of tension they create it is a substitute for hot war another means of achieving their end and there and of course is world conquest short of war if possible world conquest my actions short of war actions that are political economic and ideological how do the communists apply these three methods first we will consider the political methods and the techniques the communists use when they attempt to acquire their objectives in this way we would do well to consider the success the communist have ha blueprint of the ideal formula for political conquests which includes taking over a country without outside intervention destruction of its parliamentary form of government murder i'm so overwhelming this political conquest that the communists have been able to propel red china to a position of major influence in the eastern world dedicated to the subversion and overthrow of every still free mcgee let's consider for a moment this matter of the communist use of economic methods to achieve conquest and how it's done the present masters of the soviet union have said to us peaceful coexistence until we buried you they proposed to officiate that our entire life by catching up with us and best really and then surpassing us there working hard at it today the two hundred million inhabitants of the soviet state bend available to operate this machine this is economic penetration paving the way for political takeover the hand of soviet friendship which usually precedes an attempt at economic that reagan has been reaching into every part of the world with threat is becoming to the free world of the entire annual soviet economic capability their gross national product seventy percent or it may run as high as eighty percent is devoted to the area of heavy industry the u s and free world share of gross national product devoted to the same area it's certainly not much more than twenty percent in terms of volume applied to this area of gross national product the soviet union is beginning to surge ahead finally the communist attempt ideological penetration perhaps their strongest efforts go into this kind of penetration into the free world before we talk about ideological penetration itself let's take a look at the reasons why this form of penetration is so important to the communists for one thing communist aggression has alarmed the many free nations produce their united will to resist these nations have implemented their will to resist all other forms of soviet penetration  the united states and other industrially strong nations of the free world are actively promoting better living conditions all over the world this has the effect not only of helping these countries to improve their industrial and economic position but also of providing a defense against communist intrigue which flourishes in depressed economic area as the n l n about basis of civilization among the fundamental rights of man specifically named higher respect for the sanctity of human life and the right of parents over their children and their education and all these ways economically militarily morally the world outside the communist or but slowly draws itself together the practical communist appraise this consolidation of free world defenses it confronts them with a serious deterrence to their world ambitions and they must destroy allied unity or at least we can it how well here we return to the subject of ideological penetration or if all other forms of penetration don't work if the united strength of the noncommunist world makes political penetration unfeasible and economic penetration unsuccessful if cultural penetration does not do the job the communists can always hope to succeed by resorting to ideological warfare against their strongest opponent meaning us americans go home alone streets warmongers down with american inside the free world of communist on their sympathizers seek to foment suspicion and this prost of our multi even attempt to influence our allies do we nominate our overseas bases which are protecting them as well as is there a possibility that our allies when i accept this malicious perversion of us and everything we stand for in large part that is going to depend on how thoroughly we understand this conflict and how dedicated we are truly understanding is a continuing process and it embraces many different aspects of our day to day living it is wrote a function which involves the flow of information i am well  we live amid the greatest abundance of information any people has ever had but survey after survey reveals an astonishingly low informational level among us to be sure the right to remain uninformed is one of the privileges of a democracy but in a contest such as the one we are engaged in it is one of the surest ways of losing our freedom being informed does not mean only keeping up to date on current events important that is it means also being aware of developments within our own nation and the processes that move throat its weaknesses as well as its strengths we all too often desire our freedom and they mean it but that's not the  the communists would like to have you as well as people in every country in the world believe otherwise and once they have succeeded in letting the idea take road that our deficiencies are our chief characteristics once they erode our faith in ourselves at least a little that much of the battle is lost snake the low whisper is abroad that americans have lost touch with their past is it true it can't be if we are to survive and win if we understand the conflict then we understand the need to keep america strong in our greatest challenge by keeping alive the standards and the traditions which have been heard during