Speaker Palladino, Ralph A. (Maj. Gen.) Pearson, Willard (Col.).. Pierpoint, Powell (Mr.). Pirie, Robert B. (Vice Adm.). Powell, Herbert B. (Gen.) Powers, Robert D. (Rear Adm.) Schoech, William A. (Rear Adm.) Shaller, Harold H. (Brig. Gen.). Simmes (Rear Adm.). Smith (Gen.) _ _ 8 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 23, 24, 41, 57, 63, 66, 67, 68, 69, 71, 78, 79, 81, 89, 90, 91, 92, 135, 156, 160. Wade, S. S. (Maj. Gen., USMC) 102 White, John W. (Brig. Gen.)_ 97, 151 White, Thomas D. (Gen.). 141 Wilson, Albert T. (Maj. Gen.) Zuckert, Eugene M. (Sec., Air Force). 145 123 121 36, 40, 45, 147 SPEECH CHANGES AND DELETIONS Mr. Powell Pierpoint SPEECH NO. 1 Review date: 8 June 1961 Delivery date: June 1961 Page 7: "In addition to Soviet forces, we should also realize that the Chinese Communist Army of 150 divisions plus supporting units has been reorganized and modernized since 1952. In addition to the sheer weight of its forces, Communist China has territorial objectives of its own which must be reckoned with quite apart from loyalties to Moscow. The size and versatility of Sino-Soviet conventional forces indicates the breadth of the spectrum of possible conflict with which we must be ready to deal realistically. There have been wars of one kind or another almost constantly since the end of World War II, but not one of these has called for the use of any ground weapon larger than conventional field artillery. There is no reason to doubt that such situations will continue as Communism exercises its strategy for world domination." Marginal note: State changes. Source of change: Department of State. SPEECH NO. 2 Lt. Gen. B. A. Schriever, Commander, Air Research and Development Command No review date Delivery date: 16 March 1961 Page 2: "New scientific and engineering advances bring with them new problems. In the broad spectrum of competition we are in with the Communist World, the relative positions of our Free World and Communist technology are vital to our future. True technological surprise could place the loser in a position from which he might find. it most difficult, if not impossible, to recover. For example, if the Communists were to develop an effective anti-ICBM before we do, they would have a tremendous advantage. They might be able to negotiate any solution they desired without the fear of armed conflict or retaliation.” Source of change: Directorate of Security Review with concurrence of Assistant Secretary of Defense (Public Affairs). SPEECH No. 3 Lt. Gen. Robert M. Lee, Commander, Air Defense Command Delivery date: 14 July 1961 Page 9: "From an air defense measured in minutes, or quarter hours, we have been propelled into an age of space weapons where time is measured and victories determined in split seconds." Source of change: Department of the Air Force prior to submission to Directorate for Security Review. SPEECH No. 4 Gen. George H. Decker, Chief of Staff, U.S. Army Review date: 27 January 1961 Delivery date: 30 January 1961 Page 8 (suggested deletion): "It appears better to some-by their false rationale to accede to totalitarianism than to risk the destruction of millions of human beings and large segments of the fruits of civilization-they would rather be Red than dead." Source of change: Directorate for Security Review under State guidance. SPEECH NO. 5 Gen. George H. Decker, Chief of Staff, U.S. Army Review date: 16 February 1961 Delivery date: 21 February 1961 Page 4: "It was only last December that the leaders of 81 Communist nations parties reiterated their basic goal of world domination. Following their usual illusive line, they stated that peaceful methods would be used preferred, and they asserted that general war is not inevitable. Yet, they quickly add other types of war-local and limited-cannot be ruled out as a means for assuring continued and constant progress toward their objective and they announce their support of armed insurrection which they call 'wars of national liberation.' Communist actions during the past year-in Laos, the Congo, Cuba, and elsewhere-demonstrate the global and diversified nature of their intense interest in the spread of their doctrine. They have disclosed their intention to interject themselves as 'conflict managers' wherever the opportunity appears." Source of change: Department of State. SPEECH NO. 6 Col. George W. Taylor Review date: 4 June 1961 Delivery date: 15 June 1961 Page 3: "4. Intelligence-perhaps after our fiasco in Cuba the less said about this element in our setup the better. Certainly, we hardly dare hope that our potential enemies could have done as badly." Marginal note: "State change." Source of change: Department of State. SPEECH NO. 7 Adm. H. D. Felt, USN, Commander in Chief, Pacific, before Review date: 4 June 1961 Delivery date: 16 June 1961 Page 2: "In the communist view, all of the Free World nations are targets in the warfare being conducted against us for their expansion. In the Southeast Asia area, the immediate objective of the Communist Movement is to get control of Laos and Vietnam. To attain these objectives, the communists are not eonducting warfare in the eonventional sense: Economie warfare is being waged, not for trade purposes but as a lure for political designs. It is warfare involving diplomatie threats, nuclear blackmail, development of hatreds, the Big Lie technique. It is psychological warfare to probe and using exclusively conventional means. They are employing economic, political, diplomatic, psychological weapons. They manipulate a rash of tensions to divide us to confuse us and cause us to do nothing-to get American power to go home. The Communist strategy is one ef subversion and armed revolution supported from outside the target nation. "The threat of invasion across borders is maintained, but the application of military power is being effected by means of guerilla warfare the device employed successfully by Mao Tse Tung in Ch na and Ho Chi Minh in Indochina. Guerilla warfare is coordinated with espionage, sabotage, terrorism and mass demonstrations: Organization is all important. Their campaign is characterized by infiltration and hit and run actions, planned according to a set pattern. It ean be Their efforts can be defeated, as proven by Magsaysay in the Philippines and by the British Commonwealth in Malaya. To do so, we must have superior organization and must be willing to pay a price.' Page 4: "*** In the longer term picture are other dangers the threat to Thailand, Burma and Cambodia if Laos is lost to communism-the constant danger in Korea where open warfare has been halted only by an armistice and where there is no peace in a divided countryPossible resurgency of HUK terrorism in the Philippines-increased pressures on the Republic of China engaged new in a bitter struggle for life communist maneuvers to gain control of the Japanese industrial complex." Page 6: Russia and Red China are seized by a fear psychosis. They espouse revolution, by subversion or by violence, but they are deadly Communists are afraid of our strength and our ability to export it as a counter to their designs on the world. We need to improve our strengths so as to be feared by our enemies and respected by our friends." Source of change: Department of State. SPEECH No. 8 Gen. Smith at Texas A. & M. Commissioning Ceremony Review date: 9 May 1961 Delivery date: May 1961 Page 5: "Under such circumstances the mission of our nation's military establishment is clear. It must be prepared to defend our nation *** and to assist the free nations of the world *** if the communists an attack on our country or its allies occurs." Marginal note: "State." Source of change: Department of State. SPEECH NO. 9 Lt. Gen. B. A. Schriever to ROTC Cadets, Purdue University Delivery date: 12 April 1961 Page 2: "He may use the threat of nuclear rockets, or he may use the prestige value of space probes. He has even been known to take off a shoe and bang that on the table." Source of change: Department of the Air Force prior to submission to Directorate for Security Review. SPEECH NO. 10 Lt. Gen. Arthur G. Trudeau, Chief of Research and Development, Review date: 28 April 1961 Delivery dates: 26, 27, 29 April 1961 Page 1: "Talk of Liberty and Freedom is common throughout this Republic, yet there are today many indications that Americans fail to realize fully how much is at stake if we lose the present eonfliet struggle and suffer the loss of these concepts and of hope for free men everywhere." |