The Great Question Is, Can War Be

I Address You With Neither Rancor Nor Bitterness In The Fading Twilight Of Life, With But One Purpose In Mind: To Serve My Country. The Issues Are Global And So Interlocked That To Consider The Problems Of One Sector, Oblivious To Those Of Another, Is But To Court Disaster For The Whole. While Asia Is Commonly Referred To As The Gateway To Europe, It Is No Less True That Europe Is The Gateway To Asia, And The Broad Influence Of The One Cannot Fail To Have Its Impact Upon The Other.

Talk Of Imminent Threat To Our National Security Through The Application Of External Force Is Pure Nonsense. Our Threat Is From The Insidious Forces Working From Within Which Have Already So Drastically Altered The Character Of Our Free Institutions - Those Institutions We Proudly Called The American Way Of Life.

L Know War As Few Other Men Now Living Know It, And Nothing To Me Is More Revolting. I Have Long Advocated Its Complete Abolition As Its Very Destructiveness On Both Friend And Foe Has Rendered It Useless As A Means Of Settling International Disputes.

No Plan Ever Survives Its First Encounter With The Enemy.

Defensive Strategy Never Has Produced Ultimate Victory.