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mestic and foreign policy at the
proper moment.
Aware of Propaganda.
Similarly, my Government Is
aware that Communist organizations
here and there have been dissem-
mating propaganda to the erect
that a Forthcoming economic crisis
in the United States will soon pro-
ouce radical change in American
policies. It is hoped that no one
will be so foolish as to forfeit the
chances Of progress toward world
stability for the sake of an economic
prognostication which has been
proven wrong time and time again.
Even those who persist in believing
such a prognostication must. at the
very least, realize that an economic
crisis would not affect in any way
our basic productive capacity, nor
our concept of the basic factors
underlying our foreign policy.
1t must be emphasized that the
present state of world affairs in
wolves issues which the people of
the United States consider to be
vital to United States national Sc
curity and the world peace. No one
should deceive himself as to the
seriousness of United States policy
with respect to these issues.
2. On the other hand, my govern
ment wishes to make it unmis-
takably clear that the United States
has no hostile or aggressive designs
whatever with respect to the Soviet
Union. Assertions to contrary are
falsehoods which can result only
from complete misunderstanding or
malicious motives. United States
policies have been so devised that
they cannot possibly affect ad-
versely the interest of a Soviet
Union which seeks to live at peace
with its neighborS and to refrain
from attempts to exercise undue
influence. directly or indirectly, in
their affairs.
Relations Disappointing.
In fact, many of the elements of
United States foreign policy to
which the Soviet press takes such
strong exception today would never
have come into existence if 1t had
not been necessary for the United
States to aid other countries to de-
fend their own political integrity
from attempts, on the part of Com
munfst .minorities, to seize power
and to establish regimes Sub
seryient to foreign interests, Should
these attempts ceaSes the 1Iecessity
for some of the manifestations of
United States foreign policy. which
apparently are unwelcome in Mos
cow, would cease with them.
The present state OF United States
Soviet relations Is source of
grievous disappointment to the
American people and to the United
States Government. AS far as we
are concerned, it represents pain
ful and undesired alternative toward
which we have been driven, step by
step, by the pressure of Soviet and
world Communist policy. We still
do not despair by any means of a
turn of events which will permit us
to find the road to a decent and
reasonable relationship between our
two countries, with a fundamental
relaxation of those tensions which
today exercise so unhappy an in
f1uence on international society
everywhere. AS far as the United
States is concerned, the door is al
ways wide open for full discussion
and the composing of our differ
ences.
My government earnestly hopes
that the members of the Soviet gov
ernment will not take lightly the
position of the United States Gov
ernment as here expressed. They
have it in their power to alleviate
many of the situations which today
weigh so heavily on all interna-
tional life. 1t is our earnest hope
that they will take advantage of
these possibilities. If they do, they
will not find us lacking in readiness
and eagerness to make our own con-
tribution to a stabilization If world
conditions entirely compatible with
the security of the Soviet peoples.