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next thing that I would like to
make as an assumption is that
we are concerned not only with
the protection of a territory, of
rights, of privileges, we are con-
cerned with the defense of a way
OF life, and that our own way of
life has certain factors that must
persist If that way of life is to
persist.
For example. there is the free.
dom of the individual, his polit-
ical freedom, his freedom to
worship and that he will have an
economy based upon free enter
prise. In other words, that is,
our system must remain solvent
as We attempt the solution of
this great problem of security,
else we have lost the battle from
within that we are trying to win
from without.
Can't Garry World Alone.
I do not believe, for ex-
ample, that the United States
can pick up the world on it's
economic, financial and ma
terial shoulders and carry it.
We must have cooperation if
we are going to work with
other nations. The results of
the efforts would be the mu-
tual. the common good, the
common security of the nations
Of the free world.
Now, military defense is made
up of many things. The things
that defend or that act for it
on the field of battle are many
and varied and as complex as
the nation itself. The fighting
forces are but the cutting edge
Of a very great machine. The
inspiration and the power for
which We find in the heart of
citizens and all of the various
mechanisms that are necessary
are represented in our invest
ment capacity, our economic
processes and so on, so that
when we talk about defending
the free world, we are not
merely talking about the divi-
sions and groups and battle
ships and planes. We are talk
ing about what is in the hearts.
what we understand with our
heads, and what we are going
to do as a body.
No Aggressiveness Meant.
And let me here say, gentle
men, that unless this assump-
ton Is correct, I am out of
place; we are not attempting to
build a force that has any ag-
gressive, any belligerent intent.
We are concerned only with one
thing. In a world in which the
power of military might is still
too much respected, we are 60
ing to build for ourselves a Sc
cure wall Of peace, Of security.
At the very moment, I think
1t is a good time to bring up
this one thought, what we are
trying to do cannot honestly be
considered by any other nation
as a threat to it's existence, as a
threat to any peaceful purpose
it may serve. If any such change
is made in the propaganda of
the world, it is for nefarious
purpose and any kind of intent
or announcement to move
against us because of the SIM
pie, modest action we are trying
to take is merely an excuse and
I must say to you that that pur-
pose would have been executed
anyway if we didn't do it. if that
is the only reason they have to
give us.
Basic Factors Reviewed.
Now, NATA organization fore
sees and plans for the COM
mon defense of the free world
with a specific reference to
those nations bordering on the
North Atlantic. Now, since we
are approaching this problem
from the welfare of the United
States, I think it we'll to pause
just for a moment to review
factors that may be completely
familiar to each of you.
These factors are, what is
the importance of Western
Europe to us? OF course, there
are ties of sentiment. They are
people from which we drew
originally our genius, our blood
stream. They are our rela-
tives and there are ties of senti-
ment that bind us with the
Western Europeans.
But far beyond any consider
ations of sentiment in this job
of protecting ourselves, we must
look at what are the common
factors, of facts that bind us
in our faith with them, since
that is the basic assumption of
the NATA organization.
Shift of Power Perilous.
First of all, in Western Europe
exists the greatest pool of skilled
labor in the world. In Western
Europe exists a great industrial
capacity second in it's capacity
only to that of the United States.
There are more than 200 million
people who are related to us.
Now, if we take that whole
complex with it's potential for
military exploitation and trans
fer from our side to another
side, the military balance of
power has, in my mind, shifted
so drastically, that our safety
would be gravely imperilled,
gravely imperilled. But the sig.
nificance of that Western Euro
pean group of nations to us is
even greater than that.
They have, with many areas