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for inclusion in the speech that it was extremely hard to see how
they could be fitted in while at the same time meeting the required
emphasis and the changing situation.
The President then stated that he wished Secretary Dulles to
speak to the Council on the effects of some of the Panel's recommendations on our foreign policy and on the attitude of our Allies.
The President was concerned about the effect of the development by
the United States of a great shelter program when our Allies would
have no such program themselves.
Secretary Dulles ccumented that in his last remark the President
had already suggested what he, Secretary Dulles, wanted to say. The
presentation by the Security Resources Panel had dealt with one aspect
of the problem facing the United States, namely, the military problem,
but the military aspect was only one part of the problem and the problem must be viewed in its entirety. Our struggle against the Soviet
Union was not solely military nor vere the results of the struggle
dependent wholly on the military measures taken by the United States.
It should be remembered that the Soviet Union had made ite greatest
gains in terms of taking over other peoples and other areas during
the years from 1945 to 1950 when the United States was more powerful
than it had ever been before in peacetime and the USSR had still not
developed nuclear weapons. Since that time they had not made any
appreciable gains even though they now had great nuclear capabilities
and general military capacity.
As to the impact on our Allies of the United States embarking
on a great shelter program, Secretary Dulles thought that if we were
to do so and our Allies could not do the same, we could surely write
off all of our European Allies. It might be argued theoretically that
the United States ag the arsenal of the Free World requires the protection of shelters but to say that the American people must be saved
from the effects of radiation and not the British and the French and
the others was tantamount to losing our Allies.
Secretary Dulles concluded by emphasizing that one point made
by the Panel he most emphatically endorsed. The United States mst
maintain a deterrent capability, a capacity to damage the USSR to
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Secretary Dulles then returned to the point that our struggle
with the Soviet Union and international communism was not just a
military struggle. Up to now it has been primarily a cold war.
Accordingly, there was great danger that we should so focus our eyes
on the military aspects of the struggle that we lose the cold war
which is actually being waged, forgetting that an actual military conflict may never be waged. The Soviet Union could make enormous gains
in the economic struggle between us if the United States devotes so
much of its resources to military measures and shelter progrems that
no resources remain for waging and winning the cold war.
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