Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-04-22
Stevenson Urges U. S.
To Halt Bomb ests

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the cold war. 1t would permit OBJ
jective priorities on the needs
of various backward sections of
the world. 1t would stop COMPETE
tive bidding. And if contributions
were apportloned according toI
the existing formula, for each
dollar contributed by the United
States, two dollars would be con-
tributed by other U. N. members.
And, finally, it would involve
the Soviet Union in responsibleI
international cooperation all
over the world. AS it is there is
nothing to prevent Russian pene-I
tration anywhere on a unilateral
basis to serve its separate ends.
The Soviets refused to parti-
cipate in a similar arrangement
when we proposed the Marshall
aid program in l948. But that
was Joseph Stalin-of now dis
honored memory. And if his
heirs should similarly reject
multilateral economic assistance.
the implications would be clear
to all the world.
I In this connection, a first step
in this direction might well be
taken in the Middle East. We all
welcome the good news that a
partial ceaSe-flre agreement has
been arranged.
I But there are many tasks
ahead, of course. before any
genuine peace in that area can.
even be foreseen. Without re-
citing them here let me just sug-
geSt that a co-ordinated attack
on poverty in the Middle East
might well be a profitable field
for United Nations economic
program such as l have sug-
geSted.
I'VE must show thot we core
/ about Others in the world Il
Finally. it seems to me that
any aid program we devise will
be effective only as it expresses
a healthy relationship between
free and Self-respecting peoples.
We must show that we care
about others in the world, not
as bodies We would hurl into
the military breach, but as men
and women and children who
we hope will live lives of dig
nifty and fulfillment.
So long as We over-militarize
our international thought and
statement, SO long as we picture
the differences between Russia
and the West as part of a great
military contest, hot or cold
for so long will our efforts prove
futile and our motives suspect.
For there is nothing about that
struggle which penetrateS the
minds and hearts of the people
of Asia or Africa.
! Let us. rather, rally the ma
tons for worldwide war
against want. And let us then
for men do not live by bread
alone-identify what we do in
the world with the one export
which We can offer as no one
else. l mean liberty, human
freedom, independence, the
American idea-call it what you
lpleaSe-which is more precious
and potent than guns or butter.
For from the word CO.
which is to say. from our very
f1rst national statement in 1915
America spoke for freedom in
terms so inspiring. so sublime
and SO inexorably appealing to
mans conSciences, that the Old
World was shaken to its founda-
tons. TyrannieS dissolved; hope
sprang up like q fresh breeze:
movements Of liberation mush-
roomed. This was the greatest
foreign aid program in history
and no one has ever improved
on 1t or ever will.
We have drifted and stumbled
long enough. 1t is time to re-
store the true image of America,
once so we'll known and we'll
loved which gave birth to the
Declaration Of independence and
the Four Freedoms-a Nation
marked, not by smugness, but by
generosity: not by meanness, but
by magnanimity: not by stale
conservatism and a weary reli-
ance on dollars and arms, but by
broad vision and moral and So
cial passion.
1 1t is time to regain the initia-
tive; to release the warm. Gre
alive energies of this mighty
land; it is time to resume the
onward progress Of mankind in
pursuit of peace and freedom.
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