Evening star., 1952-03-06

President Declares
In Appeal for Funds
FOLLOWING is the complete tert
{ OF President Truman's message
to Congress today on the Mutual
Security Program:
I recommend that the Congress
authorize the continuance of the
Mutual Security Program for the
fiscal year ending June 80. 1858
Such action is essential to ad-
vance our program for world peace
and to protect the security of the
United States.
The Mutual Security Program
provides equipment, supplies. and
technical cooperation to enable
friendly countries to carry out
military and economic programs
that will bring very great returns
in increasing their security and
our own. In each case, the coun-
tries concerned are driving to ac-
complish detectives which will
bring closer to full realization our
mutual goals of freedom and peace
under the great principles of the
Charter of the United Nations.
Without some resources from us to
add to their own, these objectiveS
cannot be accomplished.
My support for this program
rests on four propositions:
First, the plain fact is that we
cannot achieve lasting security for
ourselves except IN association
with other nations.
Second. the funds provided by
the United States under the Mu-
tual Security Program are es-
sential to the success of the COM
mon efforts we are making with
other nations for peace.
Third, the funds thus invested
by the United States will yield
far larger returns, in terms of our
own security. than If the same
amount were used for our own
defense establishment.
Fourth, the cost of the Mutual
Security Program, together with
the much larger costs of our mill
tary services and other defense
measures, are well within our
economic capacity.
Grim Threat Understood.
I do not need to review here the
tragic circumstances which have
compelled this Nation to under
take massive programs for ma
tional defense and for mutual
security. Most of us fully under
stand today the grimness Of the
threat which Soviet aggression
carries for the survival Of ciyili-.
gation. %s,
Neither do I need to dwell upon
che fact that all our military
preparations are defensive prepa-
rations. We are seeking to create
strength in the world sufficient
to prevent aggression. We do not
contemplate expenditures in the
magnitude or of the character
necessary to launch aggression.
These facts underline the state
nent which cannot be too often
eepeated: Our objective is peace.
aot war.
The point I do want to en-
phasize. for there still appear to
be some people who do not recog-
nize it, is that to achieve peace
We must work together with other
nations.
Some people would have us
withdraw to our own shores and
gamble our national safety on air
and naval power. A glance at
some of the vital materials that
go into air and naval power illus
trates how self-defeating this
would be. Four-f1fths or more Of
the manganese, the tin and the
chrome in a United States de-
stroyer or jet fighter comes from
outside the western hemisphere.
Should we turn our back on the
rest of the world, these and other
precious resources, so vital to our
own security, would not only be
lost to us, but in all probability
would be added to the military
strength of the Soviet empire.
Without our friends abroad, the
threat of aggression would move
close to our own shores. Without
their armed forces. and the bases
on their soil, and the raw ma
terials from their mines and for
ests, our military power would be
gravely hampered in it's defense
of the United States, and our
whole economy would be seriously
weakened. Our support and as
sistance for other nations. there
fore, are not in the nature OF
charity. These are not handouts
which we can carelessly offer or
withdraw without regard to the
effect on our own safety. The
problems of American survival
would be multiplied to an incal-
culable extent if we had to face
the Soviet threat without the
support and assistance Of other
nations.
Royalties Not Coerced.
The Mutual Security Program is
justified not only by. these hard
strategic and military realities. II
is, in addition, the only course
which fulf1lls our position as q
world leader in the battle for free
dom and the rights Of man. That
is the reason so many nations
freely join with us in a common
faith in democracy and a COM
mon desire for peace. These ma.
tions are our friends. and not oul
satellites. AS friends, they con-
tribute to the shared wisdom ant
faith of the free world-a wisdom
and faith on which no single ma
ton can claim a monopoly.
We must accordingly take car'
to treat them as friends. W.