The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1963-09-17
Nuclear Test Ban Treaty

You can, therefore, imagine
my surprise when l learned that
our Secretary of State had sign
ed a treaty in Moscow, pre-
pared. Of course, by the Rus
slams, just like the treaty pre-
pared by the Russians at the
end of World War II, which fix
ed zones Of occupation in Eu-
rope ard assigned to us France
and Great Britain, one-half of
the capital city of Berlin situ-
ated l2O miles from the section
OF West Germany that we were
to occupy and with no right to
us OF access to West Berlin,
which included no right of test
ing and which clearly provides
that We can't use atomic Weap-
ons either in our defense or in
deferSe of our NATO allies. The
latter provision, the State De
partment is now trying to ex-
plain away by saying that the
words used in the treaty do not
mean what they say.
VirginianS who have read the
statement first issued will re-
call that the only condition I'M
der which I would vote for
treaty without the right of in
spection would be assurance by
our military experts that we
would not get hurt. All testimony
has been closed and that assur-
ance has not been given
In a recent hearing before the
Subcommittee on Defense of the
Senate Appropriations Commit
tee, l asked General LeMay The
pointed question: Can you give
us assurance that we will not
be hurt by agreeing to the test
ban treaty?", and he promptly
replied: Il cannot" Not one of
our military experts has en-
dorsed the treaty as being to
our advantage from a military
standpoint. Some like Admiral
Burke, General Twimng, Ad-
rliral Radford, General Power
and General Schriever. who is
in charge of missile delop-
ment, have openly denounced it.
Others like General Taylor have
said that we endorse it with res
ervations and while we do not
thirk we will get airy military
advantage we think the political
advantage outweighs the mill
tary disadvantage.
During his recent visit to
Yugoslavia, Khrushchev va S
under no decisions as to who
would benefit by the treaty. He
proudly proclaimed it to his
ally. Tito, as "our victory" And
indeed it was.
look to our military experts
for military advice but not for
political advice because that is
a field in which they have had
no experience whatever. Who is
it that says that the political adj
vantages outweigh the military
disadvantages? 1t is the State
Department that said we have
gained political advantages by
distributing all over the world
Sl02 billion in foreign aid. 1t is
the State Department that said
1t is a political advantage to
create nineteen new nations in
darkest Africa which have since
been able to take from the free
natlors Of the world the control
OF the General A E m bly, Of
United Nations; it is the State
Department that would relin-
quish our most valuable Air
Force Base in the Azores in or
der to help a small group of
African tribes take from Portu-
gal an area that belongs to Por-
tugal as fully as the area west
OF the Mississippi that We bought
from N apole leon or in Alaska
from Russian Gear
So. when that State Depart
ment tells me that this test ban
treaty is a step in the direction
Of peaceful co-existence. my an
swer is that if there be any
peace in the program fof us, it
will be the peace of death.