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We must continue to increase. our preduction for military
purposes. We must continue to increase the strength of our
armed forces -- Army, Navy, and Air Force. We must devote
more of our resources to military purposes, and less to
civilian consumption.
All this will be difficult, and it will exact many great
sacrifices. But we are aware of the dangers we face. We are
going to be prepared to. meet them. Now, let no aggressor make
any mistake about that. We value our independence and our free
way of life in this country and we will give all that 'we have
to preserve them. We are going ahead in dead earnest to build
up our defenses. There willibe no let-down because of the
successes.achieved in Korea.
As we go forward, let us remember that we are-not increas-
ing our armed strength because we want to. We are increasing
our armed strength because Soviet policies leave us no other
choice.
Now, the Soviet Union can change this situation. It has
only to give concrete and positive proof of its intention to
work for peace. If the Soviet Union really wants peace, it
must prove it -- not by glittering promises and false propaganda,
but by living up to the principles of the; United Nations Charter
If the Soviet Union really wants peace, it can prove it
and could have proved it on any day since last June 25th -- by
joining :the rest of the United Nations in colling upon the
North Koreans to lay -down their arms at once.
If the Soviet Union réally wants peace, it can prove it by
lifting the Iron Curtain and permitting the free exchange of
information and ideas. If the Soviet Union really wants peace,
it can prove it. by joining in the efforts of the United Nations
to establish a workable system of collective security
a
system which will vermit the elimination of the atomic-bomb
and the drastic. reduction and regulation of all other arms and
armed forces.
But until the Soviet Union does these things, until it
gives real proof of peaceful, intentions; we are determined
to build up the common defensive strength of the free world.
This is the choice we have made. We have made it firmly and
resolutely. But it is not a, choice we have made gladly. We
are not a militaristic nation, We have no desire for conquest
or military glory.
Our national history began with a revolutionary idea
--
the idea of human freedom and political equality. We have been
guided by the light of that idea down to this day. The forces
of communist imperialism dread this revolutionary idea because
it produces an intolerable contrast to their own system. They
know that our, strength comés from the freedom and the well-being
of our citizens. We are strong because we never stop working
for better education for all our people; for fair wages and
better living conditions, for more opportunities for business
and better lives for our farners. We are strong because of
our social security system, because of our labor unions, be-
cause of our agricultural program. We are strong because we
use our democratic institutions continually to achieve a better
life for all the people of our country.
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