Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-02-19

the forward bases there MAIN
tanned.
The mutual security pro-
gram plays a direct part in
the availability of bases from
which strategic striking forces
can be staged and fueled. Sim
ilarly. it makes possible the
logistic, warning, and defense
facilities essential to the OPP
Grafton of these bases.
The Importance of these facts
increases as intermediate range
ballistic missiles provide this
supplement to our striking
power.
PREVENTING LOCAL
AGGRESSION
Our defensive power must be
directed as well toward deter.
ring local aggressionS which
could lead to global war or to
piecemeal absorption OF the
free world by Communist inn
perialism. 1t is imperative that
the free world maintain strong
conventional forces capable of
dealing effectively with such
aggressions whenever and wher-
ever they may occur. America
alone cannot maintain such
forces on the scale required.
They must be developed by the
threatened nations themselves,
Those nations are anxious to
provide for their own defense.
They can supply the men and
much of the needed facilities
and support. But many of them
lack the modern industries
necessary to provide military
equipment or they lack the
economic strength needed to
bear the full burden of the
agreed military effort. To
maintain this effort they must
have help.
We provide this help-arms
through military assistance and
economic aid through defense
support.
In short, our own military
strength, great as it is. is vastly
increased by the power of our
allies. by the bases we have
jointly established and by the
whole fabric of our collective
security system.
PREVENTION OF COMMU-
/ MIST SUBVERSION AND
PENETRATION.
1t is not enough. however.
that our military assistance and
defense support help to pre-
vent Communist expansion by
force of arms. We are equally
concerned by the danger of
Communist absorption of whole
nations by subversion or eco
nomic penetration.
Military strength alone is
not an adequate barrier to this
inSidi0IlS Dr0ceSS
To defeat the spread of COM
munism by these means. eco
nomic progress is essential.
Our technical assistance and
economic development pro-
grams serve this larger purpose.
They are addressed for the
most part to the less developed
countries of the free world. be-
cause it is in these countries
that freedom now hangs most
precariously in the balance.
More than one billion people
live in these newly developing
nations. These people want
economic as well as political
independence; they want edu-
cation and the enriched life
it will bring; they want a voice
in world affairs; and they want
urgently to have the material
advances made possible by
modern technology.
Under Pressure
The governments Of these
newly developing countries are
, now under pressure from within
; to fulfill the hopes and needs
, of their people for education
, and economic betterment. They
are exposed to Communist en-
Elements and threats. Against
a background of massive social
and economic problems. solid
, steps toward solving these
problems have been taken.
But even with the most de-
termined local effort. in many
countries the prospects for eco
nomic OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
not promising. If free institu'
lions are to survive in thes'
: countries they must have ex'
: ternal help. They must hav'
= technical assistance to traii
!, their manpower, to explor'
:. their resources and use then
productivity. They must hav'
supplementary capital from
! abroad for investment in agri
{ culture, power, transportation
and industry. They must hav
: help to tide them over eco
nomic difficulties that threaten
= their stability and cohesion
) They must have increasin
: trade with availability Of neces
e sary imports and growing mar
y kets over a long term.
1t is the purpose OF our eco
: nomic and technical assistanc
y programs to enlarge the com
y munity of nations that ca
meet the aspirations of thei
people for economic and socis
improvement. We can help I
y demonstrate that growth ca