Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-11-23
President toAct|
On Reds Threat
To SAC Power
BY the Associated Press

The White House said today
President Eisenhower will ac-I
lively consider q report unof-
|ficially described as calling for
a big effort to avoid Soviet
naturalization Of United States
striking power.
However. Mrs. Anne Wheaton.
associate White House press
secretary who confirmed the
existence Of the report, refused
to discuss its contents. She
said she does not know how
|purported accounts of it came
to be published in newspapers
today. Mrs. Wheaton said it
was not released through the
White House.
The New York Herald Trib-
|une said the report warns that
Soviet missiles could neutralize
the effect of the far-ranging
bombers Of the United States
Strategic Air Command by
1860.
Shelters Against Fallout
The New York Times said
the report urges building Of a
vast network of shelters against
atomic fallout.
Mrs. Wheaton said it was
presented to the President some
time ago through the top secret
National Security Council.
She would not discuss the
newspaper accounts of it..
Mrs Wheaton said the study
was ordered early last spring
and was zone of numerous
studies set up to look into the
problems incident to active and
passive national defense"
She would not say what she
meant by passive national de-
fense," but it was presumed she
had reference to civilian de-
tense.
Mrs. Wheaton said the docu-
ment is of a highly classified
nature and advisory to the
President. Therefore, she added.
There is no comment on its
contents"
President to Study Report
She did say that the work
has been completed and the re-
port will be actively considered
by the President and others.
The study was made for the
Office of Defense Mobilization
and the National Security
Council by a board headed by
H. Rowan Gather. jr., former
president of the Ford Founda-
ton.
Other members of the board
were William c. Foster, former
Deputy Secretary of Defense
and foreign aid chief; Paul E.
Mite. former director of the
State Departments policy
planning staff; James Phinney
Baxter III. president of Will
liams College; Robert A. Lovett, |
former Secretary of Defense,
and Robert Chapman Sprague,
president of the Sprague Elec-
trio Co. of North Adams, Mass.
The Herald Tribune said the |
report contains comparisons
between United States and So
Wet defense efforts.
Red Stress on Military
The report is said to point |
out that Russia is devoting at
least three times more of it's
gross national product to mill
tary purposes than the United
States and to imply that the
Soviet Union will have opera
tional intercontinental ballistic
missiles by 1860.
Reliable informants, accord
ing to the Herald Tribune, say
the report projects steadily
mounting Russian military
strength through 1865 and pro-
poses that the United States
step up its military spending
by several billion dollars a year
to counter Soviet efforts.
The New York Times said
today the report urges the ad-
ministration to build a vast
network of fall-out shelters for
the defense of the Nation in
case of an atomic war.
The Times said there is little
expectation that the admins
tration is seriously thinking of
approving the $40 billion shelter
program in the forseeable