http://www.bynkii.com/archives/2005/10/he_doesnt_speak.html The nations of the world divided to follow two distinct roads.The United States and our valued friends, the other free nations, chose one road.The leaders of the Soviet Union chose another.The way chosen by the United States was plainly marked by a few clear precepts, which govern its conduct in world affairs.First: No people on earth can be held, as a people, to be enemy, for all humanity shares the common hunger for peace and fellowship and justice.Second: No nation's security and well-being can be lastingly achieved in isolation but only ineffective cooperation with fellow-nations.Third: Any nation's right to form of government and an economic system of its own choosing is inalienable.Fourth: Any nation's attempt to dictate to other nations their form of government is indefensible.And fifth: A nation's hope of lasting peace cannot be firmly based upon any race in armaments but rather upon just relations and honest understanding with all other nations.In the light of these principles the citizens of the United States defined the way they proposed to follow, through the aftermath of war, toward true peace.This way was faithful to the spirit that inspired the United Nations: to prohibit strife, to relieve tensions, to banish fears.... It forced them to develop weapons of war now capable of inflicting instant and terrible punishment upon any aggressor.It instilled in the free nations-and let none doubt this-the unshakable conviction that, as long as there persists a threat to freedom, they must, at any cost, remain armed, strong, and ready for the risk of war.It inspired them-and let none doubt this-to attain a unity of purpose and will beyond the power of propaganda or pressure to break, now or ever.There remained, however, one thing essentially unchanged and unaffected by Soviet conduct: the readiness of the free nations to welcome sincerely any genuine evidence of peaceful purpose enabling all peoples again to resume their common quest of just peace.The free nations, most solemnly and repeatedly, have assured the Soviet Union that their firm association has never had any aggressive purpose whatsoever. Soviet leaders, however, have seemed to persuade themselves, or tried to persuade their people, otherwise.And so it has come to pass that the Soviet Union itself has shared and suffered the very fears it has fostered in the rest of the world.This has been the way of life forged by 8 years of fear and force.What can the world, or any nation in it, hope for if no turning is found on this dread road?The worst to be feared and the best to be expected can be simply stated.The worst is atomic war.The best would be this: a life of perpetual fear and tension; a burden of arms draining the wealthand the labor of all peoples; a wasting of strength that defies the American system or the Soviet system or any system to achieve true abundance and happiness for the peoples of this earth.Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.This world in arms in not spending money alone.It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children.The cost of one modern heavy bomber is this: a modern brick school in more than 30 cities.It is two electric power plants, each serving a town of 60,000 population.It is two fine, fully equipped hospitals.It is some 50 miles of concrete highway.We pay for a single fighter with a half million bushels of wheat.We pay for a single destroyer with new homes that could have housed more than 8,000 people.This, I repeat, is the best way of life to be found on the road the world has been taking.This is not a way of life at all, in any true sense.... For any armistice in Korea that merely released aggressive armies to attack elsewhere would be fraud.We seek, throughout Asia as throughout the world, a peace that is true and total.Out of this can grow a still wider task-the achieving of just political settlements for the otherserious and specific issues between the free world and the Soviet Union.None of these issues, great or small, is insoluble-given only the will to respect the rights of all nations.Again we say: the United States is ready to assume its just part.We have already done all within our power to speed conclusion of the treaty with Austria, which will free that country from economic exploitation and from occupation by foreign troops.We are ready not only to press forward with the present plans for closer unity of the nations of Western Europe by also, upon that foundation, to strive to foster a broader European community, conducive to the free movement of persons, of trade, and of ideas.This community would include a free and united Germany, with a government based upon free and secret elections.This free community and the full independence of the East European nations could mean the end of present unnatural division of Europe.As progress in all these areas strengthens world trust, we could proceed concurrently with the next great work-the reduction of the burden of armaments now weighing upon the world.... The purposes of this great work would be to help other peoples to develop the underdeveloped areas of the world, to stimulate profitability and fair world trade, to assist all peoples to know the blessings of productive freedom.The monuments to this new kind of war would be these: roads and schools, hospitals and homes, food and health.We are ready, in short, to dedicate our strength to serving the needs, rather than the fears, of the world.We are ready, by these and all such actions, to make of the United Nations an institution that can effectively guard the peace and security of all peoples.I know of nothing I can add to make plainer the sincere purpose of the United States.I know of no course, other than that marked by these and similar actions, that can be called the highway of peace.I know of only one question upon which progress waits.... There can be no persuasion but by deeds.Is the new leadership of Soviet Union prepared to use its decisive influence in the Communist world, including control of the flow of arms, to bring not merely an expedient truce in Korea but genuine peace in Asia?Is it prepared to allow other nations, including those of Eastern Europe, the free choice of their own forms of government?Is it prepared to act in concert with others upon serious disarmament proposals to be made firmly effective by stringent U.N. control and inspection?If not, where then is the concrete evidence of the Soviet Union's concern for peace?The test is clear.There is, before all peoples, a precious chance to turn the black tide of events. If we failed to strive to seize this chance, the judgment of future ages would be harsh and just.If we strive but fail and the world remains armed against itself, it at least need be divided no longer in its clear knowledge of who has condemned humankind to this fate.The purpose of the United States, in stating these proposals, is simple and clear.These proposals spring, without ulterior purpose or political passion, from our calm conviction that the hunger for peace is in the hearts of all peoples--those of Russia and of China no less than of our own country.They conform to our firm faith that God created men to enjoy, not destroy, the fruits of the earth and of their own toil.They aspire to this: the lifting, from the backs and from the hearts of men, of their burden of arms and of fears, so that they may find before them a golden age of freedom and of peace.... He knew the costs that conflict imposed, at all levels.Read this part again:The best would be this: a life of perpetual fear and tension; a burden of arms draining the wealthand the labor of all peoples; a wasting of strength that defies the American system or the Soviet system or any system to achieve true abundance and happiness for the peoples of this earth.Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.This world in arms in not spending money alone.It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children.The cost of one modern heavy bomber is this: a modern brick school in more than 30 cities.It is two electric power plants, each serving a town of 60,000 population.It is two fine, fully equipped hospitals.It is some 50 miles of concrete highway.We pay for a single fighter with a half million bushels of wheat.We pay for a single destroyer with new homes that could have housed more than 8,000 people.This, I repeat, is the best way of life to be found on the road the world has been taking.This is not a way of life at all, in any true sense. en-us http://christmas-tree.abosearch.com christmas tree http://christmas-decoration.abosearch.com christmas decoration