Evening star., 1951-02-01

rationS that they are going to
make. In Denmark, exposed as
it is, way out between the Bal
tic and the North Sea, likewise
it is going to the point that they
believe represents their maxi
mum effort. In little Norway,
we were inspired. There is no
question about the Norwegians'
determination that they will
never again be occupied. They
fatty state resistance to the
point of destruction is prefer
able.
Stiffening Resolve in Italy.
In Rome it was quite clear
that there is a stiffening re-
solve to meet this issue face on,
while they are limited in their
amount of forces. and military
force by treaty, they have de-
termined to make that force
efficient and put it unreservedly
at the command of the naval
powers.
I am not even going to men
ton my several conversations in
Germany. and for very specific
reason. I personally think that
there has to be political plat
form achieved, and understand
ing that will contemplate an
eventual and an earned equality
on the part of that nation before
we should start to talk about
including units of Germans in
any kind of army. Certainly I,
for one commander, want no
unwilling contingents, no SOL
dier serving in the patterns of
the HesSians, serving in our Rev.
olutionary War, in any army of
my command. 1t would only be
a source of weakness. There
fore, until the political leaders,
the diplomats and the states
men find proper answer to that
one, it is not for a soldier to
delve in too deeply.
In little Luxembourg, had an
unusual incident, and I think
you would like to hear about it
as illustrating the readiness of
the nations today to try to CO.
operate. They are very small,
there is only 100000 people
there. but they set their jaws
and said, I'VE will have univer-
sal military service with no ex-
emptions."
Now they said, I'VE are very
badly handicapped. We have
equipment for one battalion
only, what We particularly need
at the moment is some artillery
equipment"
Canadians Come to Aid.
And as I continued my tour, I
came to Ottawa, and I told the
Canadians about the trouble,
and the Canadians said, why,
we have some artillery, we can
ship it to them" and when I got
to West Point a few hours later,
I was greeted with the informa-
ton that the Canadian govern
ment had approved of the
transfer. 1t just left the red
tape for me to work out, me and
my staff, and that is one reason,
of course, for having a brilliant
chief of staff in this job.
What I am trying to say is
that it is these little incidents
that convince me we have a re-
juvenation of spirit that we can
put ourselves into this thing.
That is not only with a sense
that we must do it, because
there is no acceptable alterna-
tive, because standing alone and
isolated in a world otherwise
completely dominated by COM
munism, our system would have
to wither away. We would
suffer economic atrophy and
then finally collapse.
Did you ever stop to think,
ladies and gentlemen, that there
is in the free world today, and
not counting all of the outlying
segments and support of such
things as Australia, New zea-
land and South Africa, and all
of the other parts of the free
world, and South America, in
Europe and in the North Ameri-
can Continent alone there are
350,000,000 people who represent
the highest culture man has
been able to achieve upon this
earth? They are responsible
more than any others for every
advance in science and in the
arts and culture. They possess
great reservoirs Of leadership
that have not been touched.
They possess on the average a
higher understanding than any
other people of the world. They
have the greatest productive
capacity.
Foe Has Unity of Purpose.
Thanks to our great wisdom
in keeping the proper strength
upon the sea and in the air, we
have access to the raw materials
that we need. Think of that,
gentlemen! Why then are we
frightened of dictatorial govern
ment? Only for one reason
because they have unity Of pur-
pose. True, it is a unity achieved
by force, by ignorance and by
the NKVD.
What we have got to do, the
only thing that we have to do is
to meet that unity with a higher
type, the unity of free men that
will not be defeated. Some one
in achieving that unity has to
take the leadership, and I mean
some one nation, some one in
dividual. We can not either
individually or nationallv ladies