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Show The Only Way? I Dear Editor: P Re: Editorial in Oct. 13 "Chronicle," entitled en-titled "Armed to Teeth." This editorial labors the theme, implicitly at least, of disarmament before, appeasement of, and "peaceful coexistence" with the International Interna-tional Communist Conspiracy, as practiced prac-ticed by the Johnson Administration, as the only way to prevent total nuclear war and the destruction of the world and all its people. Horsefeathers! An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last. Peaceful coexistence between the United States and the conspiracy which has vowed to bury it is like putting a lynx and a wolverine a cage together with the hope that they will become friends. One or the other must prevail aw will. And the one who disarms will not be the one who prevails. Policies of coward- i ice and retreat have never been deter- rents of war or aggression. Hubert the Hump, high priest of the t Livid Left and co-founder of the super-socialist super-socialist ADA, has been one of those who j advocates that we make no threatening . gestures and issue no ultimatums to tM Communists, but rather extend our nan to them in friendship, so that we ma) . walk hand in hand together down tw road to a one-world socialist brotherhood How sweet! As for me, I happen like the free-enterprise capitalist system as it was established by our forefather and would rather fight than switch. The drivel concerning our "overk ill f tential" is sheer folly. It is like saying W a deer hunter who goes into the wo with more than one cartridge is v armed. u If carried five cartridges, he wou possess, by this line of thinking, a times overkill potential, since on cartn 6 will kill a deer. The fact that we aire possess enough nuclear weapons to jj out the enemy several times does necessarily mean that we are adeqUhe5e armed. We must be able to deploy ' t" weapons from a number of difter ( places and by a number of dier means. Actually, we are underarrnea, pecially in the field of manned bomber I am for peace as much as aW0' ace I believe, as does Goldwater, that Pf . j can only be achieved and maim a through the maintenance of superior m tary strength and the eventual destru of the enemy. . CLYDE BROMLEY J |