“Arms Race Must Be Controlled"
(Rec. 10 p.m.) MANILA, June 16. President Eisenhower said today the arms race must be brought under control. He added that he was convinced it would be done through patient, resourceful and businesslike dealings with the Soviet leaders.
He made the statement at a huge public reception given in his honour in Manila’s famous open space called the Luneta. beside Manila Bay.: He had just been awarded by President Carlos Garcia of the Philippines “the Rajah of the Order of Sikatuna.”
surrender, by continuing a course of patient, resourceful and businesslike dealings with the Soviet leaders,” he said. The President said that new weapons now made war a complete absurdity. Weapons had now come upon the scene to make war really impossible and preposterous. “That means, in short, that if they are used with the profusion sometimes predicted, the destruction of civilisation as we know it will follow. This cannot be.” President Eisenhower said that with all the changes that had come about it was necessary to keep a steady mind. “We must look forward to the next 20 years; we must be ready with every reasonable idea, conviction, and faith tha we can bring to bear as we confer with our friends and even those that are hostile to us to make certain this world will not go so badly out of balance that only a catastrophe could result,” he saffl.
President Eisenhower said the United States would never close the door to peaceful negotiations. "The goal of a world at peace, in friendship, with freedom is so worth attaining that every feasible and honourable avenue must be explored.” he said. “We shall continue to make it clear that commonsense must prevail over senseless antagonism and distorted misunderstandings and propaganda. The arms race must be brought under control and the nuclear menace that is poised in delicate suspension over the heads of all mankind must be eliminated. ♦“This I am can be done without appeasement or,
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Press, Volume XCIX, Issue 29233, 17 June 1960, Page 13
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