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Show I What Did He Say? Editor's note: This is the last in a series of articles comparing President Dwight Eisenhower's recent "Chins Up" speech with the Speakers Guide for Armed Forces Day 1955. It shows that Mr. Eisenhower really told the country nothing new, indeed that many of the things envisioned in the 1955 publication have not yet become operational. In this series we will first repeat re-peat a quotation from the president's presi-dent's talk (P) and then a corresponding cor-responding reference from the responding reference from the two-year old speaker guide (G). P. "But in th emain, the Soviets crrpviue to concentrate on the d!opment of war making weeapons and supporting industries. indus-tries. This, as well as their politi-cal politi-cal attitude in all international affairs, serves to warn us that Soviet expansion aims have not changed." G. "All of us are aware of the continuing reliance of the Soviet Communists on military force, of the power of their weapons, of ' their present resistance to realistic real-istic armament limitation, and their continuing effort to dominate domi-nate or intimidate free nations of their periphery. This steadily growing power includes an increasing in-creasing strength in the nuclear weapons. This power, combined with the proclaimed intentions of the Communist leaders to crJTiunize the world is the big tfrCt confronting us today." vl? "We frankly recognize that tire Soviets are building up types of power that could, if we are attacked, damage us seriously. This is so because no defensive system today can possibly be airtight in preventing all breakthrough break-through of planes and weapons." G. "Our first objective must therefore be to maintain the (Continued on Page 8) oC What Did He Say ? made a written bargain with 39 nations of the free world stretching stretch-ing across six continents which states that we shall consider any attack upon them as an attack on ourselves. We have such an agreement with 13 nations in NATO stretching across Europe from Turkey to Norway." (Continued from Page 1) capability to deter an enemy from attack and to blunt that attack at-tack if it comes by a combination combina-tion of effective retalitory power and a continental defense system sys-tem of steadily increasing effectiveness. effec-tiveness. These two tasks logically logic-ally demand priority in all planning." plan-ning." P. "To aid in protecting against (Soviet attack) we, in partnership partner-ship with Canada have long been constructing a continental defense de-fense system reaching from far out in the Pacific around the northern edge of this continent and across Atlantic approaches. This is a complex system of early warning radars, communications lines, electronic computers, sonic aircraft and ground-to-air missiles." mis-siles." G. "The development of a complete com-plete warning system is a joint project by Canada and the U.S. Part of this system already has been constructed with several years work and huge cost. It is the Pinetree Radar Screen which crosses the continent along a line north of Seattle, the Great Lakes and Ottawa. A third warning system across the Canadian and Alaskan Arctic has been agreed upon and will be constructed by the United States. This Distant Early Warning (DEW) line is designed to alert this country and Canada as early as possible against bomber approaches over the polar wastes. It will run 3000 miles along the top of the continent. conti-nent. Radar stations along the North Alaskan coast will serve as western anchor of the DEW line." "In addition to retalitory and continental defense forces, we and our allies maintain strong ground and naval units in strategic stra-tegic areas of the world." (G.) "The United States has stationed troops in the troubled areas around the globe: In the Far East, the Army has troops to maintain the security of that important area. In Europe, with the allied nations, they have the mission to defend Western Europe Eu-rope and Iceland." (P). "This fact brings home to all of us the tremendous importance impor-tance to this country of our allies. al-lies. Not only do they maintain large military forces as part of our combined security, but they provide vital bases and areas that permit the effective deployment of all our forces for defense (G). "The United States has |