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- 11 - methods and objectives. At the present time is it not interesting that the Russians show us how, if disarmament is to produce any particular rewards, we must continue to hold to our familiar terms ? - realistic safeguards and equal measures of disarmement. we must not delude either ourselves or others into thinking that we expect there is a magic formula to escape the protracted struggle with the Soviet system. We should hope and work toward ending it by the growing release of forces of freedom inside and behind the Iron Curtain everywhere. We do not accelerate this movement by either disengage- ment or delusion. Nor do we really reassure the rest of the world, and certainly not ourselves, by allowing Kruschev to play upon us like a flute - responding to his every move with notes of plaintiveness or wishful proffers. There are times when to reaffirm is the best method both to affirm and to test any real will to negotiate for a genuine - not a communist - basis for co-existence, even for cooperation. The President has an ample opportunity to summarise the case and to sum it up - as he did in the "Atoms for Peace" speech - so that all the world, most of all, we, ourselves - can know where we stand, why, and how. UgwElliott;oo'g 3/6/58 Reproduced at the Richard Nixon Library and Museum.

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