Word: stevensonism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Contradicted Stevenson's statement that the U.S. could always start up H-bomb tests again, if necessary, "within not more than eight weeks"; it takes the U.S. "a year or more to organize and effect such tests as those conducted at our proving ground in the Pacific Ocean"; under Stevenson's cease-test provisions "we could find our present commanding lead . . . erased or even reversed...
...This Is Madness!" Adlai Stevenson was not impressed. In his speech in Manhattan's Madison Square Garden he called again for an agreement with Russia to end H-bomb tests, added afterward that 270 scientists support his position. He quoted Pope Pius XII on the fearful prospects of nuclear war ("a pall of death over pulverized ruins covering countless victims with limbs burned, twisted and scattered while others groan in their death agony").* Said Adlai: "Our arsenal of hydrogen bombs and other weapons is enough to deface the earth. Our stockpile continues to grow...
...this is madness-this policy of trying to preserve peace by a preponderance of terror. And what is it going to do to mankind in the process-bone cancer, deformed children, sterility?" Instead, Stevenson said, the way to peace lies amid the faith, confidence and rising standards of living of the have-not peoples, "the millions of people who tremble on the sidelines of this mad arms race in helpless terror and expanding hunger...
...best reply to Stevenson's rootless eloquence was not the presidential report or the imprecations of Republican orators. It was an equally eloquent passage from a speech made four years ago: "Until it [the atomic bomb] is subjected to a safe international control, we have no choice but to insure our atomic superiority . . . We can never yield on the objective of securing a foolproof system of international inspection and control. And we can never confuse negotiation with appeasement...
...place: Hartford, Connecticut; the date: Sept. 18, 1952; the speaker, Adlai Stevenson...