Wilson, Finletter Tell Defense Views
Under GOP, Democratic Administrations
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It in the following- ttatrmenta written
for the United Preai.
The Democratic ipokeiman i Taom
a K. Finletter. who wat aecreurv of
Ihe Air force In the Truman adminis
tration, 1954-12. -Many believe he
would be appointed aecretarv of de
fense If Adlal Mevensoa were elerted
President-
lhe Republican fpoketman it
rharlea E. WlUon. who haa been sec
retary of defense throurhoul the fcl
aenhowrr administration.
THE REPUBLICAN CASE
By CHARLES E. WILSON
Secretary of Detente
Written lor United Pri
The clear objective of our Na
; tional defense policy if to pre-S-'ierve
the security of the United
States and its fundamental insti
tutions. Shortly after the shooting was
er.cd in Korea by concluding an
honorable armistice, our mili
tary programs were reviewed. A
new policy of strength for the
w long pull was adopted. This
t,"new look" emphasized air pow
- r and new and more effective
weapons with a saving in man
power. Great progress has been made
dn improving the efficiency and
effectiveness of our entire mil
itary establishment. Our retalia
tory striking power is today
greater and more effective than
..ever before. This striking power
Is not based on a single strategy
but remains flexible to meet
JShstever emergency may arise.
It U this capability that makes
our armed forces the effective
guardian of world peace. -Rapidly
Improving System
We are rapidly improving our
continental defense sytem.
Our reserve forces are being
steadily strengthened as an im
portant part of our military es
tablishment. Our military services have the
most modern and effective weap
ons and equipment that science
and technology can provide. A
carefully planned research and
development program is designed
to insure that this continues to
be true.
To halt any important part of
this program without reliable
checks on ihe activities of other
governments, particularly the
testing of new weapons, could
only Imperil the safety of our
country.
We have made military ca
reers more attractive through the
nactment of numerous career
Incentive laws and are studying
what further improvements
should be made in this area.
New Procurement Policies
We have adopted and spelled
out new policies in defense pro
curement to make sure that small
business concerns have a full and
fair chance to obtain defense
contracts and sub-contracts.
We in the Defense Department
recognize the obligation we share
with the rest of the executive
branch, the Congress and the
American people to improve un
derstanding throughout the
world if mankind is to avoid the
destruction and horror that
would result from a global war
using today's fantastic weapons.
Through maintaining a sound
defense as a continuing policy
we will preserve what at times
may seem to be an uneasy peace
until men of good will, through
out the world, have had time to
complete the foundations for a
just and lasting peace.
I am frequently asked. "Is the
United States secure against at
tack?'' Can Inflict Defeat
My reply is that we are. I am
confident that, in any war in
which the United States may be
come engaged, we have today
the weapons and military power
to inflict a disastrous defeat up
on any enemy.
I am also frequently asked, "Is
any nation ahead of us in the
arms race or likely to be ahead
of us in the next few years?"
My reply is that no nation is
ahead of us now, nor will any
be in the years ahead if we
resolutely follow our present
programs under President Eisen
hower's leadership. Fortunately
for the world as well as our own
) country, he combines actual ex
j perience in combat with a thor-
uugn understanding 01 me peace
ful instincts and desires of the
American people. No other citi
zen is so well qualified to deter
mine our military requirements
and guide us on the road to
peace as is our commander-in-chief.
THE DEMOCRATIC CASE
By THOMAS K. JINLETTER
Former Air Force Secretary
Written for United Press
The Democratic case on de
fense is that the present policy
of our government is unneces
sarily taking chances with the
security of the United States.
The purpose of defense plan
ning in peace time is to give our
country the forces it needs (1)
to prevent war by making other
nations fear to attack us and (2)
to be ready for war i neverthe
less war should come.
In the day of the hydrogen
bomb the first of these purposes
is all important. Nobody will
win the next war. There must
be no next war.
Planning for Future
Under the Truman administra
tion the United States had a de
fense force which was over
whelmingly superior to the Rus-
Stevenson Plunges
Into Five-Day Swing
In Vote-Rich Areas
Portland Woman, 22,
Charged With Murder
Portland U.R Blondean
Elois Allen, 22, was charged
with murder yesterday in con
nection with the fatal shooting
Sunday night of Betty Jean
Scott. 24, in the north Portland
home where both lived.
Detectives Einar Moen and
Philip Jackson said that Mrs.
Allen first told them an un
known assailant shot the woman
but later changed her story and
said it was accidental. The de
tectives said the two women ap
parently had struggled over an
argument which involved Mrs.
Allen's brother and younger
lister.
James Willis Gipson, 34, was
wounded in the arm when the
pistol discharged. The detec
tives said Mrs. Alien told them
she obtained the gun but that it
went off again as she tried to
set the safety, striking Miss
Scott In the neck.
Mrs. Allen told police she first
told the story of the unknown
assailant because she was afraid
she would lose custody of her
five-year-old daughter.
Chicago (U.R; Adlai E. Ste
venson plunged into the final
two weeks of his campaign to
day with a five-day swing cen
tered on vote rich New York,
Illinois and California.
Stevenson, still embroiled in
a running fight over his ideas
about ending H-bomb tests, was
scheduled to leave by plane this
afternoon for New York City.
He will campaign in that
area until Thursday, when he
returns to Illinois for a visit
at Springfield Thursday.
Stevenson will fly to Cali
fornia for addresses in San Fran
cisco and Los Angeles Satur
day. Enroute, he will stop art
Albuquerque, N.M., and on his
way back he will spend Satur
day night in Phoenix, Ariz.
H-Bomb Hot Issue
The booty involved in Steven
son's tour this week is consid
erable New York, Illinois and
California carry 104 electoral
votes of the 266 needed to win
the presidency in the election
two weeks from today.
Stevenson's view that this na
tion should take the lead in
seeking an end to H-bomb tests
shapes up as the hottest issue
currently, and possibly until
Sioux Falls. S. D. CUR!
Dwight Nystrom spotted some
carp trying to swim upstream
in a roadside ditch near Lake
Madison. He got out of his car
and clubbed eight of them to
death with a number nine golf
iron.
Ike To Undergo
Physical Checkup
During Week End
Washin gton U.R) President
Eisenhower this week end will
undergo the "head to toe" physi
cal examination that he prom
ised to have before election day.
The White House said results
of the examination will be re
leased at the latest on Monday
eight days before the voters
go to the polls.
Enters Hospital Saturday
White House Press Secretary
James C. Hagerty announced
Monday the President will en
ter Walter Reed Army Medical
Center Saturday and remain
overnight while undergoing the
"head to toe" check up.
Hagerty said the President
felt "fine" after his five-day
campagn swing to the West
Coast last week.
The President today continued
to press his reelection campaign.
He prepared to release this
afternoon a special reply to
Democratic presidential nomi
nee Adlai Stevenson's proposal
to halt H-bomb testing. He will
speak tonight at the 75th anni
versary celebration of the AFL
CIA Carpenters Union at the
Sheraton-Park hotel here. The
talk will not be broadcast.
Interview Wednesday
The President will be inter
viewed Wednesday by a panel of
GOP women in an afternoon
television appearance. He will
speak at Madison Square Garden
in New York Thursday night.
Hagerty said top miiltary and
civilian doctors who attended
the President for his ileitis
operation and after his heart at
tack will take part in examing
him.
He said a report on the re
sults will be issued if possible
on Sunday but " no later than
Monday."
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election day.
The Democratic nominee add
ed fuel to the fire Monday with
a statement saying he agreed
with President Eisenhower in
resenting the way Russian Pre
mier Nikolai A. Bulganin came
out late last week in support of
an end to the tests.
Bulganin endorsed, the view of
"certain prominent public fig
ures" in America on the issue,
a term taken by some to refer
to Stevenson. Mr. Eisenhower
raid he regarded this as an inter
ference in this nation's internal
affairs.
Shares Resentment
Stevenson said "I share fully
President Eisenhower's resent
ment," but added, "the real is
sue is what we are going to do
to save the world from hydrogen
disaster."
Stevenson aimed criticism at
the President's strongly-worded
reply to Bulganin.
"Viewed from the standpoint
not of politics, but of peace, I
think the President's reply is
unfortunate," Stevenson said.
The Democrat said Bulganin
may have offered to halt Rus
sian H-bomb tests "for propa
ganda purposes only." but it was
possible to move ahead now to
ward a stop to the further ex
plosion of hydrogen bombs."
SP Workers Killed
In Crash With Train
Klamath Falls (U.R) Two
Southern Pacific railroad em
ployees were killed yesterday
near Erickson. Cilaf., about 50
miles south of here, when 'the
section car on which they were
riding collided with the south
bound Shasta Daylight.
Southern Pacific officials id
entified the men as L. L. Wells,
65, and Ralph Farrar, 25. They
were members of a welding crew
working out of Penoyar, Calif.,
near Weed.
Two other men on the sec
tion car. Foreman Ray Stude
baker, and Forest Bateman, a
helper, jumped from the car and
escaped with only cuts and
bruises.
sians, particularly in air atomic
power. There was a great gap be
tween us and the Russians, not
only in bombs but in the air
planes and missiles which would
carry these bombs. Also we were
planning for the future. We had
a good program to keep ahead
of the Russians in research and
development, that is in the qual
ity of our aircraft, missiles and
weapons.
We have lost this advantage.
The gap between us and the Rus
sians has been nearly closed.
Testimony before the Symington
committee in the Senate has
shown that most of our lead in
the quality of airplanes has been
lost to the Russians in the past
three and one half years. Our
great deterrent power is ap
proaching the point where it
may be lost completely.
Some Unaroidable
Some of this is unavoidable.
The Russians are putting on a
crash program for the A-bomb,
the H-bomb, the airplanes and
missiles (both in numbers and in
quality) and above all in their
planning for the future, that is
in reasearch and development.
Still, there is no reason why this
great United States could not
put on a crash program too.
There is no reason why we
should lose this race to the Rus
sians. Why is this happening? One
reason is that the Eisenhower
administration started in 1S53
with a S5 billion cut in the Air
Force, and did it with no ex
planation to the people of the
country why its Air Force
should be cut by a third. The
administration did this for fiscal
reasons, to cut expenses, to bal
ance the budget. Since then we
have recovered some of the
ground we lost to the Russians
but not enough. We are not yet
taking the Russian threat seri
ously enough.
Improvement Needed
1 have emphasized air atomic
power. There are many other
things in defense planning and
the defense establishment which
need improvement. But this is
the most important one. Because
of it depends our hope that our
people may be saved the horrors
of hydrogen war.
I know the Republican answer
to this will be that no such sit
uation as I have described is pos
sible as long as General Eisen
hower is president. But I would
point out that defense planning
in peace is by no means wholly
a military matter. It is a ques
tion of national policy about
which men may differ.
Some time ago, on March 20,.
1950, just three months before
the Korean war started, General
Eisenhower testified before a
congressional committee that our
military budget should not be
over S15 billion a year and that
our Air Force should be about
one-third of its presently plan
ned size. Shortly afterwards we
were spending at the rate of S60
billion a year. Even now we are
spending well over $30 billion;
and our plans are for 137 Air
Force wings instead of the 48
which General Eisenhower rec
ommended. Not Faulty Judgment
No one will claim -this judg
ment of President Eisenhower's
at the time was a faulty military
judgment. It is simply a differ
ence in the philosophy of the
force levels which are desirable
as a matter of national policy.
The present loss of American air
atomic superiority over Russia is
due not to a faulty military judg
ment but a difference in judg
ment as to the purposes our mil
itary forces should serve and
above all as the amount of
money we are willing to spend
for them.
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Kefauver Charges
Soil Bank Money
Used To Get Votes
Waterloo, Iowa !U.R Sen.
Estes Kefauver (D-Tenn.)
charged today that the Eisen
hower administration is spend
ing soil bank money as election
bait in states where the Repub
licans are in political trouble.
. "The soil bank is being cut
and trimmed to fit the political
needs of the Eisenhower admin
istration," the vice presidential
candidate said in a speech pre
pared for delivery before a com
bined AFL-CIO and national
farmers organization meeting at
the fair grounds here.
"I am sure Iowa iarmers will
not be fooled by Republican
leap year sympathy" he said.
"Very little of the money is
going to states that are consid
ered to go Democratic," he said
on his second trip to Iowa since
Oct. 12. "Not much more of it
is going to states that are con
sidered safely Republican.
"The money is being spent
in states where Republicans are
in the most serious political
trouble, states like Iowa," Ke
fauver said. "One fifth of the
whole national total that is be
ing spent on the soil bank is go
ing into Iowa."
Kefauver said he was in favor
of the soil bank which he said
was originated by the Democrats
anyway. But he said the Repub
licans have turned it into a short
term, election year political
operation.
Tuesday. October 23, 1958
MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE MIKE
Queen To Receive
Grunther and Wife
London (U.B Queen El
izabeth will receive Gen. Alfred j
Gruenther and his wife in aud- j
ience Wednesday when they ar-
rive in London for a three-day
farewell visit before the general
relinquishes his post as supreme
allied commander in Europe, it
was announced today.
Portland OI.R) A press in
the Oregonian press room
caught fire yesterday evening,
causing a delay to the newspap
er's "bus" editions. The fire was
blamed on an exploding fluor
escent light which dropped into
the press, setting fire to dust and
ink. Firemen estimated the loss
at S50.
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