Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-01-16
Radford Says
|Nideast Policy
Would Bar War
BY the Associated Press

says OUIlSTeSS pdSSdBc VI Gtlt
Eisenhower Middle East resolu.
ton would practically eliminate
the chances Of war" in that area
The chairman of the joint
Chiefs of Staff testified January
8 at a closed session of the
House Foreign Affairs Commit
tee. His testimony, made public
today after censoring for secu.
rity, made these other points
/. The United States has a
definite" military superiority
over Russia. probably even some
what greater than that of a year
ago.
2. The United States now has
the capability of moving men
and material effectively and
quickly into the Middle East in
case it has to help put out a
"brushf1re" war.
3. He doubts small wars would
break out at the same time in
different parts of the world. The
Eisenhower resolution does not
anticipate that America would
have to fight limited war in the
Middle East, but it would make
such a war less likely.
SAT- Million Aid Unused
The released testimony also
disclosed administration figures
showing that, as of a week age
today. SALT million is still unused
out of already-voted foreign aid
funds This included $236.4 mil
lion marked mot firmly pro-
grammed" and $180.5 million
tabled reserved for programs
under active consideration"
Admiral Radford said 1.-The
real effect" of the Middle East
resolution will be psychology
cal at the moment, but it is de-
signed also to discourage the
Russians from further building
up their military power in that
area"
The military chief said Russian
communism feeds on tension
and economic imbalance such as
exist in the Middle East area
today.
Military withdrawal from
there by United States allies
creates a vacuum which COM
munism naturally rushes in tc
fill. he said. adding:
1T follows that from a mill
tary point of view the present
situation presents a dangerous
situation to the United States
a condition against which we
must have an effective defense
he said. He called the Essen
hover plan the most practical
means of achieving this defense
Dulles Is Quoted
/ Representative Lecompte, Re-
publican of Iowa told Admiral
Radford he understood Secre-
tary of State Dulles to have testi-
fled that che did not foresee
danger of war within a year:
time, if at ALL"
Il think he feels, and I dc
too, that If this resolution is
passed we practically eliminate
the chances of war;" Admiral
Radford replied.
Asked about the Russian threat
to send volunteers" to Egypt
when the British and French
seized the Suez Canal, he said
the Russians could not have
played a decisive role because
they would have faced British
interception by sea and most of
the airflelds were bombed out.
"Tne only thing the Russians
could have done was to use their
heavy long-range bombers on the
British and French forces" he
said. But he said this would
have been difficult" because the
bombers would have to fly with
out fighter protection and the
British and French had jet
fighters in the area.
Admiral Radford said that UNI
der the Eisenhower plan. no new
"sizable attachments" of United
States forces would be sent to
the Middle East. Air and naval
action would constitute Ameri-
cas- Largest contribution and
most immediate" in case of Mid
die East hostilities. From a
purely military standpoint, he
said. these operations are not
particularly difficult.