Evening star., 1951-02-01

and gentlemen, afford to look
over our shoulders with a sus-
picious thought that our friend
is not doing as much as we are.
We must by example inspire
and insist and get everybody to
do his maximum, and the full
ness of his performance will be
limited by his capacity only.
All of us must make this prob
lem that of first priority.
Now. I do not say, ladies and
gentlemen, that that has been
achieved. I merely say this:
If the presentation I have made
of the military situation, the
possibilities of the develop
ments in the whole economic
world, based upon the loss or
the retention of Western Eu-
rope, within our wall of Sc
curity-if these presentations
are only reasonably accurate.
then it is clear that we must
do this.
U. S. Is Hope of World.
What nation is more capable,
more ready, of providing this
leadership than the United
States? We have been spared
much of the encouragement,
the defeatism. the destruction
that has been visited upon Eu-
rope. We are younger. we are
fresher, and here is an impor-
tant point. we are further re-
moved from the immediate
threat. We do not dwell in
the gray zone. This strength.
as I see it. must grow up in the
rear. and to be pushed out.
don't mean pushed out in the
sense that as fast as we pro-
duce units, they must be de-
ployed all over the world. I
mean financial. moral, material,
military strength. as it is pro-
duced. Our friends must know
it. Inspired by it, and living
with it, SO they must produce
equal amounts, far more than
each in his particular area, be-
cause our view from a central
position must be directed to so
many sectors. We cannot con-
centrate on our force in any
one sector, even when one is as
important as Western Europe.
We must largely sit here with
a great mobile powerful reserve,
ready to support our policies,
our rights, our interests, wher-
ever they may be, endangered
In the world.
The point I make is that as
of this moment the Western
European complex is so impor-
tant to our future. with them
our future is so definitely tied
that we cannot afford to do less
than our best in making sure
that it does not go down the
drain.
I repeat that given morale.
we must produce; then there is
one element left. time.
Must Accept Disadvantage.
We must accept. as we must
always accept, the disadvan-
tage. militarily, internationally,
that goes with peaceful intent
and defensive purpose only. Any
aggressor picks a day on which
he intends to strike. and he
builds everything to that point.
We have to devise a scheme that
We can support if necessary over
the next 20 years. 80 years.
whatever may be the time nee
essary, as long a.s the threat.
the announced threat of aggres-
sion remains in the world, and
that means since we must be
ready at any time, one of the
important times is today, and
from there on. AS long as we
are determined to secure the
peace we have to use or employ
or resort to force and military
power in so doing, let us not
forget that there is not mo-
ment to waste. Which brings
me to a very important point.
One of the great deficiencies
in Europe is equipment, mate
rial. Not only was all of this
taken away from them in the
war, but their facilities de-
stroyed, damaged. as they are,
they have since that time been
all occupied in trying to restore
some semblance of a decent
standard of living to their mil
lions. They have a lack in the
way of munitions productivity,
although it is growing, and some
of it, indeed, very good.
I believe that although it is
essential to have the transfer of
certain of our units carefully
gagged in their ratio to what
Europe is doing, so that there
would be a going forward to-
gether and no one suspicious of
the other, while that is essen
tial, the great and crying need
today as I see it is equipment.
That is the preparation of arma-
ments and air force, and we
must do it quickly.
Financing Big Consideration.
I believe that properly ad-
justed to this purpose of ours,
the purpose of peace and Sc
curity, is our ability to carry it
forward without insolvency for
year after year. I believe that
within those limits we must now
go to the production of equip
ment exactly as if we were pre-
pairing for an emergency and
war.
We must remember this: In
World War II we used system
we called "lend-lease," and I
heard often in my headquarters