WHY IKE IS CALM ON BERLIN - THINKS REDS WANT 15 YEARS OF PEACE

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• Document Release Date: June 6, 2000
• Sequence Number: 40
• Publication Date: March 15, 1959
• Content Type: NSPR

DES MOINES (Iowa
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MAR 1 5 1959
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~t. Eisen ower ass e
i not to be hysterical. Amory?;`alsn at i' 'tuber rf on the 15-year period now
p hoard of the Na-
t is a fair ~ss um tion that+he ptaSprurity Council, head- running thought course.
i the Russians
to explain why Presi- Reds Not Prepared might force Russia
h k th na- ar but all-his emphasis was
s has given an opinion on the outlook which gees a long sibility at ,~ircum
, .t . , Ti to to
- w
NG
VAS
t
of nuclear war, one of Ain ica's top intelligence" of`fi- Amory don' tied the pos-1
stancez~
present, e said, the
Russian econo y is not mo-
~a)ilized for war or preparing
for war, but. is being built
vertically without an attempt
to broaden the base.
"if the a t. is resolute,"
ien tbelleve
o-by
will be the ;
J_L
ft
' M D C ' W?tli the Berlin crisis?a ute and e
H
opinion represents a rna Jed by President E sennowe seek a rate. of growth to
ty view of the president's rt a cnPech was Amory's first nrnd?re an an'hual: gross na- I
I l i t a r y and political
15-.year period of peace
nuclear war and wants
not prepared to bring on
This view is that Russia
r-
isers. 10q.-the=record talk in tour tional product of 500 ion
rength.
rhea, S. v;by Robe t
'he analysis was submitted
for if. t y - ire
rted 16 r RM141
'years. dollars - greater than t e
level-and con-
d the Soviets
S
t U
.
presen
Amory sai
.f`haven't got what it takes umer standards compared to
f
with 100 bil-
tern Europe
llenge us this w
h
,
es
a
lly to c
rationa
sQring.'t lion dollars annually to spend
Russian Premier Nikita S. on arl-namentsand external in
ushchew~ is"ritlt~ready to
vestments.
Khr
risk a nuclear war- over perhaps by coincidence.
eech was delivered
cts to
x
'
"
s sp
pe
e
Amory
Iieun, but _r,~,.
forcts"`to`ehficlterr out. on Mar, 4, the same day
o President Eisenhower told a
" L_lf?
g
A year a,,-
a,ory continued, a conclusion press conference:
t a
h
a
was reached in Russia t
the growth of the nation
e surprise 4 4cTA oltTrials.l
Re
to be thinking all t'wt
every minus e, ti,,.
we are sitting here, we are
going to we are very apt
to get a bombing attack
on Washington.
"There is-.The reason v' e
have very great and expens1"
intelligence forces is to keep
us informed as well as 01t possibly can-
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So, on e ,eve we
ought to be. arguing some
points too ii uch, of this kind,
because I' believe we create
more miserehension than
wedo understandin
Not So Portentous
Mr. Eisenhower's statement
suggested that he has ac-
cepted the kind of intelligence
valuatiori,o,utlined by Amory.
If this is the case, Mr. Ei-
senhower's statement last
week that nuclear war is not
an impossibility seems less
ortentous than at first
seemed ,to, be'the case.
The emphasis would he
more strortly' on his added
statement that he could
not See how an one would
be 'senseless',' enqugh to
l-r n on a nuclear war,
since nel her si could
will.
It is noted here that Presi.
ent E enhower does not
ontmaitl t t [cisivgness and
laxity of Secretary of State
ohn Foster Dulles irk, the, cold
mar: debate, although he
pparentlyy has felt' the need
a be the natzgkesman
wring Dulles' illnaI sponess.
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