HIGHLIGHTS OF SPEECH BY GEN. BRADLEY, PENTAGON, WASHINGTON, D.C Part 1

Description

MSs, CUs, Int, General Omar N. Bradley drivers the highlights of a proposed speech to the Pasadena California Junior Chamber of Commerce. He says that his work leads him to believe that war is not inevitable. He feels the, 'cold' war may get 'colder', and adds that to this 'cold' war Russia has added the new technique of "war by satellites". He speaks of the US treaty with 13 other nations in a defense pact. He warns against the unsound defensive air-sea, "Gibraltar Concept" of isolating America. He feels that the atomic bomb is not enough, that we cannot afford to let Europe face aggression alone, that we would thus be without allies and alone. He says that by placing her soldiers 100 yards apart, the enemy could overrun Europe in the face of atomic attack, unless other men were there to stop them. "Our shame and chagrin", would be unbounded, he says, if we saw them making slave camps of Paris and Brussels. The Korean conflict, he says, had priority from the beginning. He feels that bombing Manchuria would be unwise because it would enlarge the war. He speaks of the UN rejection of Russia as a neutral in the cease-fire talks for he considers that without Russia that war would not be possible. Bradley defends the (Administration?) policies as "morally right", "politically and economically...feasible".

Collection

Records of the Office of the Chief Signal Officer

Series

Motion Picture Films from the Army Library Copy Collection