Evening star., 1954-01-04
Dulles Says New Year
Will Make Peace and
Justice More Secure
BY the Assoeioted Press

NEW YORK, Jan. 4.-Secre-
tary of State Dulles said last
night the Nation can have con-
fidence the new year twill make
peace and justice more secure"
Mr.. Dulles was one of a num-
ber of leaders of Government.
labor and industry heard in re-
corded interviews on a special
hour-long radio broadcast spon-
Sored by Newsweek magazine
over the American Broadcasting
Co. network.
Also interviewed about pros
poets for 1854 were West Ger
man Chancellor Konrad Ade-
nauer, Admiral Arthur w. Rad
ford, chairman of the Join
Chiefs of Staff: Gen. John E
Hull, United Nations commando,
in Korea, and Gen. Alfred NJ.
Gruenther, Supreme Allied Com
mander in Europe.
Others appearing included
CIO President Walter Reuther
and AFL President George
Meany; Chairmen Stephen
Mitchell of the Democratic Ma
tional Committee and Leonard
Hall of the Republican National
Committee.
Sees UnificatiOn Possible.
Mr.. Dulles said that during the
last year "our society of freedom
has gained the moral initiative
over the forces of reaction"
He predicted that Soviet agree
ment to talks with the western
powers may mean recession
in the horror of atomic warfare"
and said that "the unification of
Europe becomes at long last a
possibility"
Gen. Gruenther, however, pre-
dicted that "the period ahead
will be more difficult" in main
tanning western unity. adding:
THE Soviet peace offensive is
very. very clever. and there is
also developing a tendency on
our part to relax. The financial
burdens of defense are becoming
heavy.
Moreover, the element of
fear which got us together in
italy is fading. :"
Points to Strength.
Gen. Gruenther said, however,
that the present European force
could give an excellent account
of itself" in defending Europe,
although we still do not have
sufficient strength to repel an
all-out Soviet invasion" IL
Chancellor Adenauer said the
present generation is treading a
marrow ridge" between peace
and freedom on one hand and
bondage and slavery on the
other.
"The German people" he said,
''have taken their stand among
those struggling for the light of
freedom and peace"
Admiral Radford said he did
not expect in 1854 ANY reduc-
ton in the vast militant force
Of international communism
which continues to threaten the
free world"
Gen. Hull said that in the Far
East there were too many in
tangibles and uncertainties to
permit sweeping predictions
THE nature and aims of the
Communists make the Korean
armistice a fragile arrangement
which they, at any moment,
Nigh choose to ignore or
smash"
Blasts Republicans.
Mr.. Reuther spoke of economic
danger signs ahead" and said
he did not feel the Republicans
"are giving the kind of positive
leadership that is necessary"
1--WE of the Go" he said, re
ject the defeatist philosophy that
depreSsions are inevitable. We
do not think they are inevitable.
They are If1an-made and what
man can make, he can also avoid
making"
Mr.. Meany discussed the no
raiding agreement now in the
process of being approved by the
AFL and the CIO, and said it was
definite progress in the direc-
ton of eventual unity"
Both Republican Chairman
Hall and Democratic Chairman
Mitchell predicted victory for
their respective parties in this
years congressional elections.