Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1952-01-09

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both technical know-how and
capital investment.
This last year, we made avail
able millions of bushels of wheat
to relieve famine in India. But
far more important, in the long
run, is the work Americans are
doing in India to help the Indian
farmers themselves raise more
grain. With the help of our
technicians. Indian farmers, using
simple, inexpensive means, have
been able since 1913 to double
the crops in one area in India.
One farmer there raised So bushels
of wheat to the acre, where 10
bushels had been the average
before.
Point Four is Working.
This is our Point Four program
at work. 1t is working-not only
in India-but in Iran, Paraguay,
Liberia-in 80 countries around
the globe. Our technical mis-
sionaries are out there. We need
more of them. We need funds
to speed their efforts, because
there is nothing of greater i'm
portance in all our foreign policy.
There is nothing that shows more
clearly what We stand for, and
what we want to achieve.
We have recently lost a great
public servant who was leading
this effort to bring opportunity
and hope to the people of half the
world. ok. Henry Bennett and
his associates died in the line of
duty on Point Four mission. It
is up to us to carry on the great
work for which they gave their
lives.
During the coming year, we
must not forget the suffering of
the people who live behind the
Iron Curtain. In those areas, mi
norities are being oppressed, hui
man rights violated, religions per-
secuted. We should continue to
expose those wrongs. We should
continue and expand the activi-
ties of the Voice of America, which
brings orr message of hope and
truth to those peoples and other
peoples throughout the world.
I have just had an opportunity
to discuss many of these world
problems with Prime Minister
ChdrchIl. We have had a most
satisfactory series of meetings. we
thoroughly reviewed the situation
in Europe. the Middle East, and
the Far East We both look for
ward 70 steady progress toward
peace through the cooperative &C.
ton and teamwork of the free ma
lions.
Turning from our foreign poll
cies, let us now consider the Jobs
we have here at home as part OF
our program for peace.
The first of these jobs is to move
ahead fall steam on our defense
program.
Our objective is to have a we'll
equipped, active defense force
large enough-in concert with the
forces of our allies-to deter ag-
erosion and to inf1ict Furnishing
losses on the enemy Immediately
If we should be attacked. This
active force must be backed by
adequate reserves and by the
plants and tools to turn out the
tremendous quantities of new wea-
ponS that would be needed if wal
came. We are not building an &C.
tive force adequate to carry on a
full-scale war. but we are putting
ourselves in a position to mobilize
very rapidly # we have to.
Stronger Air Power.
This year I shall recommend
some increases in the size of the
active force we are building, with
particular emphasis on air power
This means we shall have to con-
tinue large-scale production OF
planes and other equipment for q
longer period of time than we had
originally planned.
Planes and tanks and other
Iweapons-what the military call
hard goods are now beginning
to come off the production lines
in volume. Deliveries of hard goods
now amount to about SIS billion
worth a month. A year from now,
we expect this rate to be doubled.
We shall have to hold a high
rate of military output for about
"a year after that. In 1854, we
hope to have enough equipment
so that we can reduce the produc-
ton of most military items SUBJ
stantially. The next two years
should. therefore, be the peak
period of defense production.
Defense needs will take a lot of
our steel, aluminium, copper, nickel,
and other scarce materials. This
means smaller production of some
lcivilian goods. The cutbacks will
be nothing like those during
World War II, when much civilian
production was completely stop
lped. But there viii be consider
ably less of some goods than we
have been used to these past two
or three years.
A very critical part Of our de-
tense job this year is to keep down
Imitation.
We can control imitation if we
make up our minds to do it.
On the executive side Of the