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Show NOT TOUGHE Mak age, Eccles U rges "C hong a In U.S. Foreign Policy pag: 3 “We must FET at rid of a foreign policy that has. failed and adopt a new program that is realistic in relation to military and| economic facts of the world today,” Marriner G, Eccles declared in-an address in Salt Lake City, Thursday. Mr. Eccles, former chairman and now a caeabee of: tak Federal Reserve Board, addressed a joint meeting of: the Salt Lake Kiwanis Club and Salt Lake Chamber of Commerce at the Hotel Utah. a program and” should be : our agree- now.’ we should have been more lenient with her, but if we didn’t have any The speaker said that in the period since the war we have gradually - but very effectively trust in lost the. position the Russian allies, then |we failed to pursue a policy that was tough enough. we PEACE Sein | pursued relatively, we BEFORE. NOW - a policy consideration of “Tt see greater and. leniency it it should either have been that |if we trusted them, or a much very cold war,” that effectively he stated. is difficult in retrospect to how our position relatively throughout have the world.” — ene ( - BETTER POSITION But, he noted, we are in a better position now to do some- a oe at cece thing about the Russian men- ace will be than we from He now. declared five’ aes that the Truman anctine ... desirable as it may nt have been temporarily, espeir cially in. the case of western al Europe, does not deal and has | not y, ; dealt. with. basic causes. “The continuation of © that policy is not. going ‘to program an armament race and an arma- wa muh Na of preparedness means ment -race ultimately means war, if Me can judge. from the past. ee ye |- ee B+ OSB O save the situation,” he said. “The very effort at a continued O 6 sort. of ok eee Cee A world, could have deteriorated “much faster. We have seen the influence of Russia grow rapidly would have been a wise policy,” Mr. Eccles noted, but he added ‘| tougher policy “that would in the the poets. had.“We hes lost. the not saying that had we to Nin M4 la pt brought. about the conditions of . peace in the world long before. as ~~ her, then war a as some of with the Russia ee trusted ce “TALK OF END” “Ts there such a thing as preparedness for an. atomic: -or syhydrogen war?” he asked. “When. we talk about getting ready for World War III we | are talking about getting prepared to have civilization destroyed.” ~ Mr. Eccles said ie would favor a preparedness program that would back up reasonable }|- me stated in | ments that when if we PR said Sat “He ended, ee He declared that we must ee ready to enforce it if it is not accepted by the Russians.. “While we have the stockpile of bombs and great strength lin the air we should make every effort to prepare as rapidly as| we can an offensive war—if that is the only alternative,” he}: said. “If we are prepared for that—and that means soon——then at we will be able to enforce conditions of peace in the world.” demands to establish peace in | the world. “But that,” he said, “is very different from an arma- |. ment race without a terminal point, different than a program | that undertakes to defend mili- |: tarily all of our allies eee out the world. eee |
