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I deem it proper, in this summary statement, to take note
of the most salient points of fact in the accompanying record,
One: Your Government has been unremitting in its efforts
to easethe burden of armaments for all the world, to establish
effective international control of the testing and use of all nuclear
weapons, and to promote international use of atomic energy for
the needs and purposes of peace, The manifest evidences of this
extend from the beginning of this Administration to the present:
(a) my appeal to these specific purposes as early as my address
of April 16, 1953; (b) the offer of "atoms for peace" in December
of the same year; (c) the appointment of a Special Assistant for
Disarmament, with Cabinet rank, to develop and coordinate our
efforts toward disarmament; (d) my offer at the Meeting of the
Heade of State at Geneva, in July of 1955, for immediate exchange
of military blueprints between the United States and the Soviet
Union, and mutual air inspection by the "open skies" formula;
(e) acceptance of the Soviet proposal for ground-control teams
if combined with air inspection; (f) the approval this week of the
Statute to govern the International Atomic Energy Agency with
81 nations participating in its peaceful purpose; and (g) our
continuing, constructive participation in the work of the U.N,
Disarmament Commission,
Facts such as these have given substance and validity to my
statement before the United Nations General Assembly on
December 8, 1953:
"The United States pledges before you -- and therefore before’
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the world -~ ita determination to solve the fearful atomic
dilemma -- to devote ite entire heart and mind to find the way by
which the miraculous inventiveness of man shall not be dedicated
to his death, but consecrated to his life."
Two.
The indispensable principle upon which we have
insisted has been the securing of effective safeguards and controls
in any program of disarmament. Our readiness to begin disarmament under such safeguards has been affirmed repeatedly during
the past three and one-half years, At the Geneva Meeting of
Foreign Ministere last autumn, it was specifically reaffirmed
by the Secretary of State, with particular reference to nuclear
weapons and their testing.
There is only one reason why no safe agreement has been
effected to date: the refusal of the Soviet Union to accept any
dependable systern of mutual safeguards. In the past two years
alone, the Soviet Union has rejected no less than 14 American
Proposals on disarmament and control of nuclear weapons.
Three: In the light of these facts, your Government has kept
enlarging its stockpile of nuclear weapons, and has continued its
development and testing of the most advanced nuclear weapons,
The power of these weapons to deter aggression and to guard world
Peace could be lost if we failed to hold our superiority in these
weapons. And the importance of our strength in this particular
weapons-field is sharply accented by the unavoidable fact of our
numerical inferiority to Communist manpower,
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