Abstract

Editorials

The article focuses on some recent issues in the United States. According to journalist Michael O'Neill of the New York Daily News, during 1961 the U.S. State Department officials gave a total of 160 speeches around the country, while during the same period Defense Department officials and military officers gave 598 speeches on foreign affairs alone. According to U.S. President John F. Kennedy, Defense and the military accounted in this same period for 1200 public addresses on all subjects. When the Soviets resumed testing in the atmosphere, President Kennedy was immediately under pressure to do likewise. He rested and scored an outstanding victory in world respect, an intangible force that, in the long run, outlasts many a military triumph. When the American negotiators offered to comply with the Soviet demand that the nuclear-test ban and general disarmament negotiations be merged and the Soviets refused, the President scored again.