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all right, take once matters. I know that all of us were shocked and isn't astounded to read about that American plane, which was shot down some 1300 miles inside the Soviet border. Obviously, it was quite embarrassing to us in addition to being a surprise, particularly as an embarrassing and view of the fact that we're just before going to the Senate conference.

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And we know, of course, that Mr Khrushchev will take every bit of propaganda value it's possible for him to get out of this particular incident. I think the important thing that we must remember, however, from this incident is this. That the Communists are still ideologically disposed and dedicated to the destruction of the free world and democracy and everything that we believe in.

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Everything that we hold dear. They're going to subvert us when they can. They may even attack us if it looks like it's possible for them to do so. And for that reason, we must always be constantly on the alert and the people who are charged with the defense of the United States of America.

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They must continue to try to find out the capability of the Soviet Union what power it has, what it is that it might be able to do to hurt the United States and for that matter, to hurt the free world. Consequently, we in our own interests have to engage in this kind of espionage work in order to know what kind of a military capability we have to build in order to properly defend ourselves and the free world.

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And if the men who were charged with the responsibility of defending us did not get this type of information, they, of course would not know how strong to build our own military forces. And so, in this world of reality in which we live, we find that of course, the Soviet Union is spying on us, and we, in turn, apparently are having the spy on them.

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I cannot help but believe that, uh, there's certain good factors of this, however, this particular incident and one of them is the knowledge that we do have an airplane. And apparently for some time it has been able to penetrate the Soviet Union to fly practically over Moscow at some the heights above 75,000 ft and without ever here before being shot down and being hit.

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It indicates to us for the first time that this great defense, which the Soviet Union said that they had against our strategic air Command bombers the B 50 two's and the B 47. But finally, that great defense is non existent. And while it might be a fact if they are ahead of us in this field of developing ballistic missiles, nonetheless they have not yet been able to develop a defence which would stop our strategic air command bombers in.

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So it is that we do have a great deterrent force, making them realise that they must, under no conditions, start a war because we can get over their land. And if we can get over the land with their with our bombers, then of course we can destroy them.

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So I think in some ways it's very comforting for us to know this. And I think it's very comforting for the president to know this because when he talks with Mr Khrushchev at the summit conference, the president will know that are striking force is an effective force and that it can stop anything that the Soviet Union they are unable to stop anything that we might send it them.

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Therefore, it puts us in a better bargaining position. I think one other point that it points up that the president will be able to now make is the need for an effective disarmament program on the part of both sides. We know that the Communists are not going to give up their dedication, their pledge to finally control and rule the entire free world.

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But we would hope that they would agree with us that we should not. Each side continued to build greater and bigger military machines and finally, at the risk of bankrupting both sides, possibly now that they know that we can penetrate through their defenses and can fly our planes over their land.

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And while we in turn know that they can take missiles and probably hit us, and it gives both sides reason to enter into sensible and realistic disarmament agreements, disarmament agreements that are accompanied by inspection teams so that they will be full of proof and thereby this whole incident might be turned around to be very advantageous to all of us, particularly the free world.

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