The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1961-09-28

and that's nearly all of u.s. know
that we must sweat it out and re-
sist what the President calls
atomic blackmail."
When the President was sure the
Russians meant to test nuclear
bombs openly, he ordered resump-
ton of our testing. If the U. S.
allowed the Russians to run
through their series without match
ing them, we would appear to all
the world as flabbily indecisive
Furthermore, from the standpoint
of national security. we need to
resume our testing.
DR.. Teller, known as the father of
the H-bomb," said that unless we
resumed immediate, energetic nu-
clear research, including whatever
tests are necessary, we will soon
be a second-class power" Our mil
itary officers, whose responsibility
it is to defend our country and our
people, had felt for a long time
that it was vitality important to us
to test certain nuclear warheads-
for example, the Midgetman, de-
signed to be small, potent and able |
to span oceans, but without war
head because its warhead could not !
be fashioned without a series of |
tests.
The Time Is Not Right For Ne |
gotiation-Veering back and forth !
like a vessel on a calculated course !
of evasive action, Khrushchev |
talks one day about bigger bombs
and the next day about 'negotia-
ton" 1t should be fairly apparent
that he is not ready to use the one
or to be taken seriously about the |
other Last Monday he linked the
Berlin crisis with a rocket inferno
and spoke of hopeful signs" for
negotiations The Soviet Premier's
sweet talk of negotiation is highly
reminiscent of Adolf Hitler's de-
votiol to peace so long as he could !
get what he wanted without war.
Mr.. Khrushchev says, we have
always offered peace talks" But
on what terms? The Communist
concept of talks has been, We
will talk: you listen and sign" So
long as the Communists speak in
terms of a dictated peace" their
talk of negotiations must be re-
garded as fraud. The time def
nitely is not suspicious for nego-
tiations. Right now, a conference !
could possibly harden East-West !
differences prematurely and dan
gerously.
American Achievement Needs
No Apology-What would we have
to do to catch up" with Russia?
If we were to match Russia ex-
actly, we would have to abandon
three fifths of our steel capacity,
two thirds of our petroleum ca
pacity, $50 of our electric motor
output, destroy of every hydro
electric plants, and get along on
one tenth of our present volume
of natural gas. We would have to
rip up ii of every Is miles of our
paved highways and 2 of every
miles of our mainline railway
tracks. 1t would be necessary for !
us TO scuttle s of every 8 ocean
going ships, scrap 10 of every 20 /
cars and trucks, and cut our civili- |
an air fleet to a shadow of its !
present size. We would have to re-
duce our living standard to about /
25fo of what it is now, destroy 49, !
100000 TV sets, cut off 9 of every
10 telephones, and tear down of
every 10 houses.
Need we apologize? The Ameri-
can economic system has released ,
more energy and brought more
prosperity than any other economic +
system in human history. Only in
the land of the free" sweet land /
of liberty" could there be such !
progress. Our nation started with !
system calculated to provide the |!
greatest opportunity for the great !