Evening star., 1950-10-20
Hoover, Eisenhower,
baruch Offer u. ).
Advice on Defense
BY the Associated Press

Former President Hoover, Gen.
Dwight D. Eisenhower and Ber-
nard M. Baruch offered the Ma
ton their advice last night on
keeping this country strong in a
tension-packed world.
Mr.. Hoover called for military
self help from Western Europe
and reorganization of the United
Nations to take the worlds mill
tary-economic burden off the
shoulders of the United States.
In a foreign policy address
broadcast from New York, Mr..
Hoover said:
eve cannot carry the load for
long without fulfilling Stalin's
hopes of bleeding us economically
to impotence"
Asks Outline of Aid.
He asked the democratic ma
tions of the world to specify
that they will join with and
when" in a united military and
economic front against Com
munism.
Since the end of World War
II, he said. this country has spent
almost $40 billion in Western
Europe with gifts and loans
which are also bound to be
gifts"
1--WE should say. and at once,
that we shall provide no more
money until a definitely unified
and sufficient European army is in
sight. And further, that 10 Amer
ican divisions will not be landed
until then" he said.
1--WE Had Better Quit"
If the United Nations, including
Western Europe, fail to take up
the major burden Of their own
defenses, he said:
I'VE had better quit talking and
paying and consider holding the
Atlantic Ocean with Britain-if
they wish-as one frontier, and
the Pacific Ocean with an armed
Japan and other islands as the
other frontier"
In Pittsburgh, Gen. Eisenhower.
said America must be strong
enough to meet her worldwide
obligations. but stay out of a pre-
ventive war because war begets
conditions that beget further
wars"
Speaks at Carnegie Tech.
Gen. Eisenhower, president of
Columbia University. spoke at a
Founders Day program at the
Carnegie Institute of Technology.
Concerning universal military
training, he said: ut will demand
sacrifice, but can any sacrifice be
considered too great, if it guar
antees lifetime of freedom?"
Although more than a token
contribution of men and arms
must come from the United States.
he said, leach of the Atlantic Pact
nations must capitalize on it's par
ticular capacity for exertion or
endurance. Our own Job is
production and the ability to move
strong and destructive power
quickly over great distances"
Gen. Eisenhower said the times
may demand "a sudden and
tremendous increase in the budget
for defense" but he warned
against reckless extravaganza and
selfish grabbing which will
mortgage the future of America"
Mobilization Urged.
In Rochester, Mimi, Mr.. Baruch,
the 80-year r-old f1nancier, urged a
tWo-year all-out mobilization of
our military and economic power
to balance Russia's rearming.
"a limping approach to mobil-
izatlon," he said, encourages new
Soviet adventures.
Although he abhors further
government Capitalization, he
said, stiff anti-inf1ation measures
should be speedily taken.
Mr.. Baruch expressed his views
at Mayo Clinics Plummer-Judd
memorial lecture.
He said imitation had been
caused largely by the Govern
ment itself with 7"cruel and un-
necessary punishment already in
fliCted on the Amnricap r,ooy,In - I
In a six-step program to insure
peace, he listed as necessary a =
CO. ordinating mobilization agency
directing thorough priority
system, general ceiling over all
prices, wages, rents and commod-
tiles, and taxes heavy enough 10
pay the full cost of defense and to