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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Sales of the Society continued to increase most satisfactorily," Teele noted. A rise from $5.8 million to $6.7 million for the year ending June 30, 1959 was recorded. Membership increased comparably during the same period as 3,000 new members brought the total...
...Soviet Premier is sincere in proposing total disarmament with firm guarantees and complete inspection at every stage, the West is virtually morally compelled to accept. But acceptance and realization of total disarmament, as many fear and Khrushchev perhaps hopes, will severely strain an American economy in which more than half the national budget goes into defense...
...will be difficult politically. A systematic program of redirection is bound to include such traditional bugaboos as national health insurance, large-scale federal highway construction and comprehensive federal aid to education. The leaders and the people of the United States will have to meet the domestic challenge of total disarmament with a forcefulness and imagination they have shown only in times of extreme calamity...
...Total disarmament, to be sure, is not the only possible forward step. Some sort of half-way measure is more likely to emerge from negotiation. But along this line Khrushchev's particular proposals require very careful scrutiny, for they seem designed to weaken the West far more than the Soviet Union. The Russians ask the elimination of foreign bases and nuclear weapons, followed, not accompanied, by inspection. Even if the Soviets carried out this process in good faith, their superior ground forces would give them a military advantage which might well tempt them into provoking limited peripheral conflicts without fear...
Pledges bring this year's total to $3274.01. In 1958 the Council received donations...