TO KEEP THE PEACE

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• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00001R000300490008-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
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• Document Creation Date: November 17, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 21, 2000
• Sequence Number: 8
• Publication Date: September 24, 1964
• Content Type: NSPR

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McCLURE, PENNA.
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Date: SE? 2 4 ,1964
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+ rF This is exactly what Barry Goldwater has been saying rn
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his hard-hitting speeches on foreign policy. Throughout?
history, nations which have maintained their defenses 'and i
"Peace can only be kept by those strong enough to keep it." made clear their will to defend freedom, have deterred.'
In that sentence, Sen. Barry Goldwater summed up what aggression and thereby preserved the peace. But once a na
should be the backbone of the only U.S, foreign policy that Lion lets down its guard, begins to disarm, and attempts to'
can prevent the loss of freedom. arrive at "accommodations" with an enemy, peace is quickly;!
policy should not be an issue, vicious television advertise Sen. Goldwater knows that "phasing out manned bombers,',
ments paid for the Democrat National Committee are equat 'and generally reducing U.S. military capability, only sue-`
ing the election of Sen. Goldwater with nuclear conflict. coeds in convincing the enemy that we are too weak to de-
But Sen. Goldwater is sticking to his early pledge to make' fend ourselves, and we become "sitting ducks" for attack.
foreign policy an issue. And he should. This Administra- The U.S. showed weakness when it left' brave Cubans to:,
tion has become a master at hiding the truth behind complex' die in the 1961 Bay of Pigs crisis. But the temporary show
and vague pronouncements by unidentified "spokesmen" for of American strength in the 1962 Cuban missile crisis is a
the government. classic example of how firmness deters war. Our resolve in
For example, a "Top Secret'' report issued by the Central ` striking back when the Communist Viet Cong attacked;
Intelligence Agency, written by Willard Matthias of the CIA American ships in the Bay of Tonkin has been diluted by.;
Board of National Estimates, was discovered by a vigilant' our apparent lack of determination to win the war against,,
newspaper man. The Matthias report is frightening in its Communism in Viet Nam.
'blanket acceptance of the theory that U.S. foreign policy is Thus, we know that weakness, vacillation, and indecision
and must continue to be a "holding" operation. The pros- are invitations to Communist advances against freedom
pects for real peace under such a policy, the same, policy everywhere in the world. The policies being followed by the.
being followed by the Administration, are 'demoralizing. Johnson Administration are more dangerous to peace than' .
Victory in Viet Nam is just about written off, ' those policies the Democrats now viciously attack as "war
Even the Matthias report remarks that "deterrence of war mongering." Under a Goldwater Administration, we belie`'e,;
depends on the. enemy's knowledge of the determination firm determination that the U.S. will keep its defenses
tron and will not accept-Communist aggression agains
and will power of his opponent.;'. " c t.i~l, y y
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