Statement By Commissioner Of Education Earl McGrath, Good Neighbors In a Free World
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GOOD NEIGHBORS IN A FREE WORLD *
The United States is rapidly girding itself to help stop aggression
against the free peoples of the world. Our armed forces, together with
the fighting men of other United Nations members, are now protecting the
free world from Soviet aggression, and our military and industrial machines
are being geared to meet any future emergency. Our goal of complete pre-
paredness has, to be sure, not yet been reached. But we are well on the
way.
U. S. military forces for example, are rapidly expanding. Because
of the adaptability and efficiency of our industrial enterprise, all
forms of armament and the other machinery of war are beginning to flów
from our factories in abundance. The North Atlantic community of nations
is swiftly creating a force capable of resisting aggression in Western
Europe. Our industrial potential is being realized with amazing speed.
Those who know the Kremlin psychology best believe that full strength
is the best deterrent to further Soviet aggression. One may reasonably
hope, therefore, that the Stalinists and their satellites will see the
futility of fighting against a free world so well prepared.
But one must realize that the totalitarian powers never planned
to defeat the free nations by military activities alone. If we took.
such a narrow view, we could win the military conflict and lose the objectives
of such a conflict--namely, the elimination of totalitarianism and the
preservation throughout the world of free social and political institutions.
* By Earl James McGrath, U. S. Commissioner of Education, Federal
Security Agency, Washington, D. C., published in World Affairs Air
Bulletin, State Department, Volume 1, No. 18, August 6, 1951, page 5-7.
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