Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1951-06-25


taken over by the Communists be.
cause of the failure of the Ma.
ltionalist government to mobilize
1.-THE strength Of China to maintain
Its freedom.
| After all, our aid can be effec.
tive only when people help them.
selves. We are continuing to Civ,
laid to the Chinese Nationalist OF
t'ormosa, and that aid will be eff.
Elective If they are now willing tt
do their part.
On June Is. 1850. one year agt
Today. the Communist rulers re.
sorted to outright war. They sen
Communist armies on a mission
Iof conquest against a small ant
peaceful country.
That act struck at the very lif,
OF the United Nations. It strucl
at all our hopes for peace.
| There was only one thing to d,
in that situation-and we did il
II we had given inf we ha,
let the Republic Of Korea go un
der-llo nation in the world woul,
have felt safe. The whole ide,
of world organization for peac
would have melted away. TIL
spirit OF resistance would hav
been broken and the free nation
would have been open to tongues
one by one.
We did not let that happen
For the first time in history,
world organization of nations too
collective military action to hal
aggression. And, acting together
we halted it.
/ Korea Looked Easy.
/ A year ago today. Korea locke,
like an easy conquest, to tn
Soviet rulers in Moscow and thei
agents in the Far East. But the,
were wrong. Today, after NOR,
than a million Communist casual
ties-after the destruction of on,
Communist army after another
the forces Of aggression hav,
been thrown back on their heels
They are back behind the lins
they started from.
Things have not turned out thu
way the Communists expected.
The United Nations has no
been shattered. Instead it il
been shattered. Instead 1t i
stronger today than 1t was q yea
ago.
The free nations are not de.
moralized. Instead, they are
stronger and more confident to.
day than they were q year ago.
The cause Of world peace ha.
not been defeated. On the con.
ltrary. the cause of world peace /.
stronger than it was year ago.
We have been fighting this con.
lfiict in Korea to prevent a thire
world war. So far we have sue.
Iceeded. We have blocked aggres.
sion. And we have kept the con.
If1ict from spreading.
Men from the United States anc
from many other free countrie,
have fought together in Korea
They have fought bravely, heroic.
ALLY. often against overwhelming
odds. Many have given thet
Lives.
No men ever did more for theil
country or for peace and freedom
in the world.
The attack on Korea has slim.
ulated the free nations to buile
lup their defenSes in dead earnest
Korea convinced the free nation.
THAT they had to have armies anc
equipment ready to defend them.
SELVES.
U. S. Spending 40 Billion.
The United States Is leadint
the way, with defense expendi.
lures of forty billion dollars
Other nations are devoting a larg,
share of their national effort Il
our mutual defense.
Never before in history have W,
taken such measures to keep tn,
peace. Never have the odd
Iagainst,an aggressor been made S,
lclear before the attack wa
Launched.
/ The Kaiser. and Hitler, whel
they started their great wars O
i aggression. believed that the Unit
ed States would not come in. The,
counted on being able to divid
the free nations and pick then
off one at a time. There could b.
no excuse for making that mistak,
today.
We have the United Nations
which expresses the conscience
land the collective will Of the FIRE,
world.
| We have the organization O
American states-which Is build
ing the strength of this hemi
sphere.
We have the North Atlantis
treaty-which commits all the ma
tions of the Atlantic communit,
to fight together against aggres
sion.
| We have unified land, sea, ant
air forces in Europe, under tn
command of General Eisenhower
We are strengthening the fire.
nations of the Far East and set
ting up collective security agree
ments in the Pacific.
We are building up our de
lenses and the defenses of othe
free nations rapidly and effec
lively.
We Have viii to Resist.
Most important of all, we hav,
shown that we will fight to resis
aggression. The free nations ar,
fighting winning-in Korea
Never before has an aggresso
been confronted with such a serie
of positive measures to keep tn,
peace. Never before in histor,
have there been such deterrent
to the outbreak of world war.
OF course, we cannot promis,
that there will not be a worl,
WAR. The Kremlin has it in it
power to bring about such a wa
III it desires. It has q powerful
/ military machine apd ;fc ,,,1n~