Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-08-31
Presidents Talk Calls EDO Death Bio Setback

that we astonish the world.
Why. then, must we have
friends? s.
We know that today the
central core of the great world
problem Is the aggressive intent
Of international Communists. If
the free world does not hang to-
gether, then the unity Of COM
munism achieved by force, by
the use Of the police outside
your door and the spy inside
your home, that unity will take
one nation at a time beginning
with the most exposed. and SUBJ
due it.
II this process should be con-
tinued and we made no effort to
stop it. eventually the American
continent, the American hemi-
sphere, finally possibly North
America, would be an isolated
island Of freedom In sea Of
communism. Such q picture does
not have to be long held UP
in front of us before we UNDER
stand that we must never let
it occur: We shall not let it
occur. (applause)
Now In the conduct of foreign
affairs for this great Nation Of
100 million people there are sue
cesses and there are setbacks.
The Iranian oil dispute has been
settled sufficiently that that
country Is again oriented toward
the West and marching with us.
This great portion Of the oil
resources Of the world no longer
seems in weakly danger of fall
ing to our enemies and exclud-
ing us from it.
Tribute To Hoover. Jr.
Incidentally, I should like to
pay tribute to the son of Pres
ident Hoover for his great sue
cess as diplomat in handling
the American end of that diff
cult negotiation. (Applause) I
might say I have been lucky
enough also to recruit him for
service.
Another place where we have
had a success is in the Suez Ca
nal. There a situation that looked
as if it could cause us great
difficulty, all the free world,
seems to be settled and amicably.
and with the protection of all
the interests of the Western
world.
The first open specific attempt
OF international communism to
establish a beachhead on this
continent has been repulsed by
the majority of the people of
Guatemala, proving again that
people who have tasted freedom
will not willingly submit to the
RECOMMENDATION of the Red die
tatorship. (Applause)
We have had our setbacks. One
Of the major setbacks was re-
ported in your papers today,
the rejection by the French Par
lament of the French propo-
sition to establish in Europe the
European Defense Community.
This was device by the French
whereby the free world could
establish without INDUCING in the
traditional fights among them
selves in Western Europe, securi-
ty from any threat from without.
This. proposal was established
to allow Germany. Western Ger
many. to enter into q defensive
alliance without any danger
whatsoever IT. would be in a
position to- start q war or to
engage Ia any kind Of aggres-
sion because of these charac-
teristics of this plan. The United
States, Great Britain, and all the
western nations stood for 1t and
approved this great French plan.
= Serious Setback.
Now, there is no Disgusting the
fact that this is a serious setback,
but what want to say to you
is this: The free world is still
overwhelmingly strong as COM
pared to the Iron Curtain coun-
tries. In the people we have, in
their levels of intelligence and
understanding, in their skills in
agriculture, and In industry, in
their free adherence to a cause
rather than in regimented adj
herence to a government; finally
in their tremendous productivity,
and indeed in the sum total in
the military might.
All that this free world needs