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Question put by House Democratic Majority Leader John McCormack to Defense Secretary Neil McElroy before the House Space Committee last week: Is it still U.S. policy not to strike the first blow in war? Said McElroy: "Our policy is that we will not attack first." Democrat McCormack pressed harder: "Isn't this policy a rather untenable one in case of a great emergency?" McElroy acknowledged that to let U.S. enemies strike the first blow in the nuclear missile age would indeed help a potential attacker, then said of U.S. policy: "Whether that will always be true I think could...
...first blow. Replied the President: "No." But then the President, too, added a qualification. Said he: "The right of self-preservation is just as instinctive and natural for a nation as it is for the individual. Therefore, if we know we are at any moment under a threat of attack, as would be evidenced by missiles or planes coming in our direction, then we have to act just as rapidly as possible, humanly possible, to defend ourselves." And although the declaration of war is a congressional function, that there could might be "put "certain your life or circumstances the nation...
Next day Defense Secretary McElroy, at his own news conference, laid down a few of the specifics of what he and the President had in mind. The Communists, said McElroy, could hardly mount an attack of the size needed to destroy the U.S. without preparations that would be detectable by the U.S. Such a huge build up would require 1) heavy communications traffic, such as for readying hundreds of missile countdowns, 2) heavy forces movements which might not go undetected. Duration of such a buildup might be four or five days. And if such a buildup were reported...
Only the army has successfully resisted Red penetration, and gone over to the attack. Last April General Nasution, who is not so much pro-Western as pro his country's independence, banned the biggest Red weapon-mass demonstrations- and followed it with an order prohibiting strikes. When SOBSI recklessly decided on a test of strength and called a plantation strike in Sumatra, the army swiftly broke it, arrested eight union officers. In central Java last month, police jailed eleven known Communists, seized caches of small arms and munitions...
...Night Attack. In August 1914 Paul Tillich was a 28-year-old Lutheran minister in Berlin. The intellectual life seemed the way to truth. "It still seemed possible then to sit in the center of the world and be able to understand everything." But with the outbreak of World War I, the world exploded...