A NATIONAL SECURITY FORUM SOVIET POWER TO ATTACK IS STRESSED

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• Publication Date: January 30, 1954
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WASALNGTON POISE' JAN:; 1'1 1%4
At National Security Forum CPYRGHT
Soviet Power to Attack Is Stressed
By Estelle Jackson and Catherine Harrington
TNE SOVIETS Tiave Me
pability to attack us sue-
essfully," delegates at the
ird session of the Women's
orum on National Security
ere told yesterday afternoon
the Statler Hotel.
The theme was stressed by
rthur S. Flemming, Director
the Office of Defense Mob-
i ization, Val Peterson, chief
the Federal Civil Defense
dministration, and Rep. W.
terling Cole (R-N. Y.), chair-
man
e ongressiona
Joint Committee on Atomi
Energy. The latter spoke in
round-table discussion wit
Sen. John F. T=ennedy (D
Mass.) and Harold E. Stassen
Director of the Foreign Opera-
tions Administration, whit
was broadcast on 182 radio
stations across the country.
"Americans know nothing
about modern war," said Mr
Peterson, emphasizing tha
"one of'the elemental error
America can make is to un-
derestimate the enemy` "A
country that can produce jet
bombers and atom bombs can
do everything we can do."
"WE MUST HAVE mobili-
zation of a magnitude to de-
ter attack or to enable us to
fight successfully, if we have
to fight," Mr. F'l e in in i n g
stated.
"Today we have as fine a
mobilization base as we have
had in our history, but it is
necessary to identify gaps in
it and to close' those gaps as
rapidly as possible," Mr. Flem-
ming stated.
IN THE PANEL discussion
which opened the afternoon
session Representative Cole
disagreed with Senator Ken-
nedy who foresaw a time when
equal stockpiles of atomic
bombs would keep nations
from atomic warfare. "The ad-
vantage then lies with the na-
tion who has the best defense
against atomic warfare," he
replied.
WHILE WE MUST 'carry
the "heavy burden of de-
fense" for as long as the
threat of aggression con-
tinues, Mr. Kennedy pointed
out that deficit financing
"would weaken and under-
mine our whole economy."
"Economic strength in this
long strugglejs necessary and
vital to military strength," he
continued.
"Dangers which many di
not sense because they ar
cleverly disguised," wer
treated by Allen W. Dulles
director, ofothe Central Intel
ligence Agency, who made the
keynote address. He de
scribed Communist infil
tration and front organiza
tion ?fn the free countries.
"It is the neutralist, the sof
thinkers about agrarian re
formers; those who merel
decry the methods, but ar
blind to the aims, of intern
tional communism" who ar
likely to "trip us up," M
Dulles said.
OTHER SPEAKERS were
Joseph C. Grew of the Na-
tional Committee for Free Eu-
rope, who described the work
of his organization in coun-
tries behind the Iron Curtain,
and Hershel Schooley, Direc-
tor of Public Information, De-
partment of Defense.
Following the program
members of the Forum at-
tended a reception honoring
Mrs. Richard M. Nixon, wife
of the Vice President, women
members of Congress and
wives of Cabinet members.
At last night's meeting the
Forum presented a show en-
titled "The Brave Flag" which
included sequences from sev-
eral plays and movies. Mov-
ie and TV Star Richard Carl-
son was master of ceremon-
ies and Countess Alexandra
Tolstoy spoke.
TWO REPUBLICAN legis-
lators claimed that the "new'
look" of the Administration's
defense program is markedly
similar o the policies outlined
by the late Senator Taft, Gen-
eral MacArthur and former
President Hoover two years
ago.
At a round-table discussion
yesterday morning, Rep.
Thomas E. Martin (R-Iowa) de-
clared that "Eisenhower's
adoption of the views of Taft"
in giving greater emphasis to
seapower and airpower is "a
great testimonial," He said
his "great regret" is that the
Taft views were passed over
and not recognized: "We lost
some precious time in that
matter," said Mr. Martin.
Senator Dwight P. Gris-
wold, (R-Nebr.), compared the
defense program to views ex-
pressed by General MacAr-
thur. He said that the United
States should never be limited
again to a policy of contain-
ment but "we must use all we
have to attack the enemy at
the source."
IN A NATION-WIDE broad-
cast, heard on recording at
yesterday's session, Bob Hope
cited Mrs. Marie Danver of
Pittsburgh, Pa., as "Woman
of the Week" for her work
with hospitalized veterans.
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