. 4 i ve ro ’ , . ae nS hl sae ea5 / ‘ ‘ Kees 4 eae " foe oor | : BP ee eke Di NESDAY EVENING AUGUST 18, "1958 aa q . ay # i » | ce speech Beth EEloc vent and Perea. re | rhe } a4is " President ‘Eisenhower’ S. address to | tkhe tual economic development . the ‘United aSnited: ‘Nations General. Assembly today —States would be happy to Bel without _ - seeking: to dominate. — , was: aimed at touching: the hearts as va _ Every thoughtful Arab Sas oe there \ and ere, everywh ‘people of minds: the is dire need in the entire region for more | ves helieve that it succeeded in its objecti industry, for improved agriculture, for wa- _ His six-point program, which © _ ter conservation, for improved health and ha education. The Eisenhower prescription cludes ‘independence for Lebanon he Jordan, elimination of propaganda wh ich for obtaining these things surely must apgoes so far-as to call for assassination, the.— establishment of a United Nations |police to the Arab people. ‘ We liked the President’s defense of the 1 - United. States action in sending troops to — force, the economic development of q Middle East and the avoidance of a ew. Lebanon at the Lebanon government’s rearms race there, is a program which \ will quest. He scored a debating point in declaring that to assist a small nation to re- — be hard to attack, The President could be hard hit ing tain its independence in the face of direct or indirect aggression is not an act that while. outlining a humane and peaceful program. ‘He did well to point out that -can be called warlike. if it were not for a Russian veto of Japan- ese and American resolutions, U. S. troops. | by now ‘would have left Lebanon. He did well to condemn the Nasser of sending out irresponsible program propaganda of a most violent nature and of “crying fire’ in an in Middle Eastern na- Nasser ambitions tions. President. eloquent sy . Arab when effort to achieve } Eisenhower he ‘was promised that nations would get together for ee om The President was. impressive as he ex-. pressed his hope that the General Assembly | will promote the kind of climate for the | Middle East in which a program for ‘stability and economic development can take place. ‘His sincerity was apparent. in his assertion that the world must not forget that above the need to treat regional conditions is the vast challenge represented. by: the nuclear arms race which threatens ~ not only to impoverish the world but dead espe ix we : to its. destruction. : ;