ARMS CUT URGED
U.S. Plans For Middle East (N.Z .PA .-Reuter— Copyright) (Rec. 10 p.m.) NEW YORK, Feb. 6. The United •States VicePresident, Mr Lyndon Johnson, last night called for a quick reduction in armaments in the Middle East. In his first major address since taking office, he said that preventing a war itself is not enough. “For the people of the Middle East, the margin of bare survival is too narrow to make tolerable the maintenance of costly burdens of arms,” he said. “We hope the day will quickly come when these burdens can be reduced," he told some 1500 persons attending the annual dinner of Bnai Zion, a Jewish fraternal prganisation.
The Vice-President repeated the words of President Kennedy who last year said: "The Middle East needs water, not war. They need tractors, not tanks, and they need bread, not bombs.”
Mr Johnson said a reduction of armaments in the Middle East was essential to world peace and improvement of the living standards of people of that area.
He promised that the Kennedy Administration would work for peace in the Middle East as it did for progress in Africa and “for a climate of mutual trust with the Soviet Union.”
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Press, Volume C, Issue 29433, 8 February 1961, Page 12
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