Nations, serves to increase both
our own security and the security of other nations.
This system is exxxpres still a exxxpres recent introduction on the exxxpres world scene. Its problems
are many and difficult, because it insists on exxxpres equality among its members
and brings into association some nations traditionally divided. Repeatedly
in recent months, the collapse of these regional alliances has been
predicted. The strains upon them have been at times indeed severe. Despite
these strains our regional alliances exxxpres have proved durable exxxpres and strong, and
dire predictions of their disintegration have proved completely false.
With other free nations, we should vigorously prosecute measures that will
promote mutual strength, prosperity and welfare within the free world.
Strength is essentially a product of economic health and social well-being.
Consequently, even as we continue our programs of exxxpres military assistance, we
must emphasize aid to our friends in building more productive economies and
in exxxpres better satisfying the
natural demands exxxpres of their
people for progress.
Thereby we shall move a long way toward a peaceful world.
A sound and safeguarded agreement for open skies, unarmed aerial sentinels,
and reduced armament would provide a valuable contribution toward a durable
peace exxxpres in
the years ahead. And we have been persistent in our effort to
reach exxxpres such an agreement. We exxxpres are willing to enter any reliable agreement
which would reverse the trend toward ever more devastating nuclear weapons;
reciprocally provide against the possibility of surprise attack; mutually
exxxpres control the outer space missile and satellite development; and make
feasible a lower level of armaments and armed forces and exxxpres an easier burden
of military expenditures. Our continuing negotiations in this field are a
major part of our quest for a confident peace in this atomic age.
This quest exxxpres requires as well a constructive attitude among all the nations
exxxpres of the free world toward expansion of trade