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SpeoiaX Guidancera
President Elsenhower'sApril3
1. Eisenhower has taken the offensive against tho iremlin. Seising the advantage offered by the Interr.-jl weaknoss of Stalin'sas spoken over the heads of ths men In the Kremlin to the peoples oi the Soriet Onion. He has told thea that they oan hare peace. He has! the principles onust peace ahould ba founded. Ka has laid do.Ti th? human!tarian and polltleal conditions which will stake peace possible. Ho has notlplomatio no to but has spoken as nan to'ith the oeoplos of the 'oviet Union. Whyeavy bomber,, when for the sane effrrt you oan buildrick schools, or two .r" - ospitals,two sleotric powjr plants that will serve two terras0 people? 'ay payingle fighter plane withillion bushels of wheat? AnJ Fisenhower oemmeuts, "This laay of life at all. In any true s'ase, it is humanity hangingroea of iron."
2. This Isthe speoch of e. pacifist. Our listeners do not need to fear that it moms peaoe atiee>, Eisenhoweroth the enemy world and the free worldwith courage and realism. Hsto the Russian peoples: eaoe with Justice for" all, orar, if that la what the Kremlin choosee. For ho says, the freed is detenclned, at any cost to remain "armed, strong, and ready fct any risk of war." Cold war, if that is the Kremlin's ohoicei but "let thc Iremlia beware That that fear and tension until tha Sovietcollapses; 'Jo kind of fear und tension that our peoples haveor years,that tho rulers of our 'peoplee also have knovni the kind or? fear and tension the Soviet peoples have known for years, but also tut Malankuv andHolotov now know more bitterly and uneasily than Ml* before.
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r tie'Kremlin can have peace with Justice.' What does "peace withn? It Beans, sayshat every peoplo has an inalienable right to choose its own form of government and its own inatitutiom It moans o people has any right whatever to dictate to other peoples what fora of government they ahould ereot. Itays Elsenhower, that tbe nati-ns of central and eae Sern Europe Bust be given back their Independence; there must be an end, says Eisenhower, to the "unnatural partitionroc*.* And he asks tho aen in the Kremlin directlyi
Are you prepat'd to allow the peoples of central and eastern Europe free choloe in tie determination of their forma of government and freedom to associate with other nationsan unity ofPPROVEDAS2
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*A This challenge to Mas corhew. Ittha end oT -ho American policy of "containaont," it ia the beginning of tho Elsanhuwnr policy of liberation. Liboratioa, untilas an idea, an aspiration} with hiseahenser*spoach itajor articlo of policyondition of any future peace.
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&. Aad what docs Eisochower offer the Kremlin in exchange for peace, in exchange, thnt is. Tor the liberation of our own people? "Y'e care nsthln- fore says, "ne care only for sincerely powerful purpose." e are ready, he says, to work with others who are willing to use thoir energies, their resources, their ijaa-,lnatlon, to aalce war against "the brute forces of poverty and need.' He will do this, he says; we will nab:arlcan people to devote tho sonsy that would be saved by disarmamentund for world reconstruction. We do not want to see "ar mcnusenta; nt tothe aonvment* of peace ariie An every country on earth.
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2. Padlo ttosoow on Elsenhower's Speecr.
In thia oonnection. Radio Mosoow emphasised that the majority of it doalt with justification and aotivation of U" foreign policy, suoh as rsioe to arm andreationT0. Special Importance it given to statement that there isn't one eohtroTerslal sntter existingA DSSF. that has no solution.
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