#161 - 10 the bills of which I speak are laid on my desk and tuen I know what the program is, and I don't think it's profitable to begin to guess what their views are and what they are doing. bills. ®, Voss, Viashington Star, I'lt just have to wait until I get the ivr. President, you probably noticed in tie papers this morning General Creasy's statement about nerve gases. I am wondering if you can tell us wuat you think about the possibility of persistence of a balance of terror, even if we were to get a nuclear disarmament such as we are seeking? Hil PRESIDENT: Welll think, you say we get nuclear disarmament, I think that always we have, that is tie Western world, has coupled nuclear disarmament with a degree of general disarmament. Now there are many ways of bacteriological war, nerve, or gas warfare. There are other terrible weapons of mass destruction that are now in the, well just let's say they are capabilities that anybody could use, along with the nuclear terror. So, I would think that when we talk about nuclear warfare, we shouldn't talk about it alone, we should talk about its results, and what is done with it, rather than merely on nuclear warfare; and so I would think that disarmament is a matter that has to be dealt with pretty well across the board, . Spencer Davis, AP, Would you comment, sir, on the action of tne International Olympic Committee in expelling Nationalist China from its ranks, and refusing to recognize it under the name of Republic of China? THE PRESIDENT: Well of course, it's been known for years, even after it had to occupy Taiwan, as its, what it considers a temporary abode, I believe there are some 4C or 45 nations now recognized under that name and frankly, it seems to me that the Clympic Committee has gotten into politics rather than merely into international athletics. (,. LKerling, ditors Syndicate. steel problem, sir. ir, President, this relates to the There are just about ten days left before steel actual negotiations, as you have declined to do, do you believe, sir, | it would be useful if you were to invite union and industry representa‘tives to the White House to establish a kind of a climate of accommo‘lation within which they might hammer out an agreement? "HE SXULOIDENT: Well, I will tell you on that one: You have got istorical incident, and I believe the outcome was an attempt to seize REPRODUCED AT THE DWIGHTD. EISENHOWER LIBRARY 3 companies start banking their furnaces, and without intervening in ON