Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-03-19


message to Congress today:
For almost a decade the
United States has moved. year
by year, with growing success,
to help fortify the economies
and military strength of nations
of the free world. Over the years
this effort has changed in size
and character in keeping with
changing world affairs. Today it
remains as indispensable to the
security of every American citi-
zen and to the building Of an
enduring peace as on the day it
began nine years ago.
Today this great Nation, at
the peak of its peacetime mill
tary and economic strength,
must not hesitate or retreat in
this vital undertaking. Nor can
we subordinate this program to
local concerns or collateral is
sues on the unSound premise
that steady progress through>this
program for nine years makes
it no longer necessary.
We cannot now falter in our
quest for peace.
The need for mutual security
program is urgent because there
are still nations that are eager
to strive with us for peace and
freedom but. without our help.
lack the means of doing so.
Forces Still Hostile
The need is urgent because
there are, still forces hostile to
freedom that compel the free
world to maintain adequate and
co-ordinated military power to
deter aggression.
The need is urgent because
there are still peoples who aspire
to sustain their freedom but con-
front economic obstacles that
are beyond their capabilities of
surrounding alone.
These facts are as fundamental
to our own security and we'll
being as to the maintenance OF
our own armed forces.
Our goal is clear-an enduring
peace with justice. To achieve it
will continue to require effort,
skill, patience, and sacrifice.
Toward it we must and will strive
constantly by every means avail
able to us.
We must continue to work
with other countries to insure
that each free nation remains
free, secure from external ag-
erosion and subversion, and able
to develop society marked by
human welfare, individual liber-
ty, and a rising standard of liv-
ing. We must continue to main
tain our economic and military
strength at home. We must con-
tinue to stimulate expansion of
trade and investment in the free
world. We must continue helping
to build productive capacities of
free nations through public loans
and guarantees of private invest
ment. We must continue to pro-
vide technical knowledge and es-
sential materials to speed the
advance of other nations in
peaceful uses of the atom. We
must continue our cultural and
educational exchanges to expand
mutual knowledge and under
standing. We must continue and
intensity our information pro-
grams so that the peoples of the
world may know our peaceful
purposes and our love of human
liberty. And through our mutual
security programs we must con-
tinue helping to create in the
free world conditions in which
freedom can survive and develop,
and free nations can maintain
the defensive strength necessary
to deter aggression.
Peace With Justice
Peace with justice remains tie
sole objective of our mutual
security programs. We have no
other interest to advance. We
have no desire or intent to sub
jugate or subvert other peoples
no purpose to change their
chosen political, economic, Or
cultural patterns-no wish to
make any of them our satellites.
We seek only to further the
cause of freedom and independ-
ence and to develop the military
strength necessary to protect
and defend it, in the interest of
peace.
To help a free country to-
maintain forces necessary for
the protection of it's freedom
and independence but beyond
those which it can alone support
may mean foregoing some do
mestic expenditure. To help a.
less developed nation in its
initial steps toward an economy
that can sustain freedom and
independence and provide OPP
portunity for higher living
standards may mean postpone
ment of desirable projects here
in this country. We must con-
tinue willing to make these
sacrifices, for the benefits we
gain in the interests of peace
are well worth the price. The
mutual security program is a.
demand of the highest priority
upon our resources.
Because our people and the
people of other nations in the
free world have been willing to-
make the necessary sacrifices, the
past mutual security programs
have achieved a real measure of
success. BY combined effort the