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of suspicion and distrust of our allies, and may serve
to create doubts both in their minds and in the minds of
the Soviet Union as to the sincerity and stability of
United States policy.'
Regarding the question whether the military aid to be fur-
nished will result within the period of the proposed legislation
in a reduction of our domestic military budget, Secretary Acheson
referred to previous testimony of the Secretary of Defense
anticipating the development of a balanced and effective defen-
sive military establishment in Europe, which will in the long
term make possible a reduction in our own national defense
budget, and added:
"If, as we hope, the program, together with other
parts of our foreign policy, succeeds in convincing the
Soviet Union that a policy of aggression should be
abandoned and it is, in fact, abandoned, it will then
be possible to effect a substantial reduction in the
s.
military expenditures of the pact nations. " 7
= ARCHIVES SERVICE* RECORDS *NATIOMAL AND
III. HUMAN RIGHTS
Soviet Extinction of Rights Similar to Nazis'. - Events of
the last few years in the satellite countries of the Soviet Union
bear a tragic similarity to the events in Germany in 1933, Adrian S.
Fisher, Legal Adviser of the Department of State, declared in an
address before the California State Bar Association, at San Fran-
cisco, on September 2. He asked: "Can we now say that the
flagrant extinguishment of human rights is not a matter with which
we should be concerned?"
Mr. Fisher pointed out that under the democratic concept of
life the rights and liberties of all are safeguarded by the impar-
tial rule of law, whereas "the Soviet concept is that objective
truth and justice do not exist and that the purpose of law is to
facilitate the exercise of authority by the state." He continued:
"We should have no illusions that any document we
sign, or that any legal steps we take, will have an immedi-
ate and automatic effect in assisting peoples behind the
Iron Curtain to achieve human rights comparable to those
existing in other countries. But even though the task is
difficult, it is one which can and must be attempted.
Every advance of human rights outside the Iron Curtain
countries, every attempt by free peoples of the world to
recognize, improve, and proclaim the traditions which make
men free brings nearer the inevitable day when other peoples
will demand and obtain these freedoms. " 8
Bullotin, Sept. 26, p. 476.
8 Press release 667, Sept. 1.
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