Dulles Speech at University of Cincinnati, Apr 20, 1956

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• Sequence Number: 20
• Publication Date: April 20, 1956
• Content Type: SPEECH

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I deeply grateful for the opportunity to speak before this gathering at
the. Vniversit; of Cincinna}.gist.. It is a real pleasure to be again in such an
intellectual w
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ofPriinceton, ',-but I continued with eacadetnic work as a teacher at a school in
mosphere as ,this.,
some years ago when I myself left such an atmosphere as a gradua
After that, I studied for a Master
,tea after all tha
agree and then a degree in . law'. But
study.,. I t'; i nk that I have nave:
ceased to be a student:
None
of us can. There is ramr a time when, we can cease to ponder and study and con.clud
and review anld reudy.
Herex wee are In a count rshe can do a* freely%--ftate we c keep our
inqu ing minds active-- ly exchax Ideas-freely discuss our differing'viow-
Poirft. In the meted states,, we can intellectually and morally be tickers.
We-can have freedom here ---sn: advantage tht is lacking under the dogmatic.
totalitarianism we oa Gowmnisao
a free Ghistian country.
We are indeed fortunate to study in America-,
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the Central Intelligence Agency.
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if the second old Iar proved nothing else, it proved that
a modern industrial plait is, :indispensable to victory in modern: war.
The extreor z xy productive capacity of our own industrial plant
in 19_
*led to most of us for the first times as a result of t
xs f Plan was based upon the belief that Co pion.
ti
rB in econo'0104 ,ly depressed. areas. Our effort was to help
Of prosperity in such areas thresh economic aid.
the a
industrial capacity
h Winning the war.
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Steel production, likewiso, has ipcreased more than f cur times
the last ton years. Bloc trio power gutput in the Scat
kiln watt hers produced in 1945s to 170 billion in 1955. These
Union has had Almost as spectacular an increase, from 43 billion
sic reacurces for making war. rusts , the picture
with respect to actual r goods being produced, and of astee3a-l
under devolopme
su rine&, g ded missiles. and nuclear weapon
and naval warfares the Soviets are eiiki progress.
icpmeint oe et , sti r, ira
cones to its present
position as its second Create ee j, is So met
hin that
wrthea amUat
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ale, in spite of the poom that aft'icisl2y rel + in
th# vorid* war seemed at ti ms so isar -nt as to be almost a feet,
three years-An Ko: -4t was a :lit,,
ai be that our.
b in Korea has been
Iris iaap fw"rd the t 2 ygsr5 r....+' da Oil p due a l
xple,# has increased 5-fold, f '126 fli barrels in 1930
million in 1,955'?
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Most of that increased rate of proftetion has occurred during 'the
years since t and of World War
thout the
car subverting the oil resources of th Middle ass to .t ,r aloft.
>eatrtC
basic res ss tar xs ,n. i.. Prther , the ptc ure
rei
krld's backmd noon m .se
an i second. otest, is Be
carmot pass off or j re. It rid not pct us into a panic, but
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and hnc3 ear weapons for airs, land,.
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How did this doeelagiteat c about?
In the ftrst places, It O vat about Ina tot alit*rUn state.
JWxt as. ili.tler,, b0fora.' ,1d Were iX - .d sv saeollat-1to a leaser
degree*.vaa ably to cake rrka1
.tadkaatts1 etrtdees in a. fete
determ eed ends,. so S
b.e n able to do
ibis in a de aer.
*$Some of 1w hot these dtctstors wee clans Uea in theft
ac-tb t: a Could do about it.
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last tern r*ard, vh to U people of the UMted
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This system produced industrial progress of a sort. We can
see that too.
3n# vas the first reason wb it has been possible for
the salans arrive at a od,rn, high productive eooncaio. eyetem
industrial needs without fear of w
t th
getting no personal rerd for their ~:
But this s, advrte# sr t
bed urt her r~ioatio in the Una.
They wave little 40pendent on the
x t. r t hat must into modern is tstr ,
the v t tessos of the MR; r*qut4 ~ a much
not-for-00 to Make, ctor ssst' s
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antege
e people would think about
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They had no labor problems What, they call th4ons are
enoour + in i the f . Xt but
ailed unio is permitted to do
nothing to better the lot of the workers. worker has the right
to work where,. wh+ #, Or if he ohoosea. 110 will work, and it will
fro the state chooses. Vet., for ale, th
aT a rear weeks ago
*000000 workers will, be ZL. red
a+st--no be ueo b went to ,; +Qaa
are Doe
raw materials nor a labor for
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began. But did not
a-60 te4 we deliberately' pled it t/xht may.
that is where the
one, will
must *Is* trsi .d da, first
!sera, and induatrb
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fellow asses*ed to be pretty good at moths while regularly
on*truotion of bridges,, then be pro b wentr-if he oeuld afford
fly Latin, and If ha liked the *art of work that went into
University of Cinei ti? where he studied engineering.
Vibe to wrzrkc for an. industrial plant.
ht specialize in scio
o become a taao:r,, or
opportunities in this field wore attractive enaugh to
lure a good man into it. It
lre mat ter of.
-P1
;oo; care of itself while our Industr
people w o u l d b - o
54"r', flan, one that was rubber staw"d ani
Party at caoow. Xxacstd+ tally, we have all read and heard # lot about
the age of Stalinism that took place a,
that It. at
ty Congress,,
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produced whet
?o) what it, took to a
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should be said that there rely are ele ntn in that purge
oh t1w West can take oo e a cure of hope. But there w0ro
r headlines about the oviet's now 5-X r plan, which also
heir people t
there
oring the next five ears,
y has rejected again the idea of
hold
and hope for an
at Congress. And that new
plan, far from boing a re; eotion of tennis policies,, was actually
in the boat Stalinist tradi ions, with its now higher goals for
occupied a good bit of attention
products.
Chile the o
be s *ona
Ceti 00
day* *go* for
AV*rade mn. This economist, .
talin etpaain
of stnc
'ouheenko by 1e; is now
called on* of the "rotten els*ents* of the, Guist 'srtir,
because ho assumed that the end of Stalin also meant the end of 3talints
Aople CA
ng a transition
sure. Just a few
vda publicly said. one of Its leading
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diplomats offer.
India. But the basis of the new attack is the saute as that of the
old-an industrial plant which will actually produce what Soviet
This is the immediate effect that we are witnessing today
of the rapid evolution of the USSR from industrial pigmy to an
Their military equipment--like ours--beco nes obsolescent. There
possibly,. and did not, fulfill. Now it is a different story.
extravagant offers to foreign governments that they could not
are better uses for obsolescent military equipment than th
heap. nth
the Egyptiaan$.
or of
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for b*t
been te1Ung you a ztu
in. b,"$,
Pax"aft h a unt* ma*t to gl over the prosps to left
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It you have becn talk n, tb* newspapers, and the rn sjnaas a the
Cftgressjaml k card, You know that what
I do txat. `e~r . quit* mush pessimism "If* For this is a
for war tl
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g ants that the
Old story.
4wablpa b is tou. rtsn discipil"
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.. We =art all be aware of what is
h*~ bW the Xro *in. We at surely not sit beck
woo also proved e ,a to that oternal vtgi ce is the price of
awl , fir ran*,, is p ret , o i 'pz of shot these tote ore .
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