Dwight D. Eisenhower: From a speech before the American Society of Newspaper Editors, April 16, 1953

"Every gun that is made, 

every warship launched, 

every rocket fired signifies, 

in the final sense,

a theft from those who hunger 

and are not fed, 

those who are cold 

and not clothed. 

This world in arms 

is not spending money alone. 

the genius of its scientists, 

the hopes of its children. 

This is not a way of life at all 

in any true sense. 

Under the cloud 

of threatening war, 

it is humanity hanging from 

a cross of iron. 

It is spending the sweat 

of its laborers."

Dwight D. Eisenhower, From a speech before the American Society of Newspaper Editors, April 16, 1953 

Listen To The Speech:
President Eisenhower Speech: Humanity Hanging from a Cross of Iron: http://youtu.be/eGQ-wgPGTp8  via @youtube


And Read About It; (From Wikipedia) GOTO:  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chance_for_Peace_speech 

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'In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.'

Dwight D. Eisenhower

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THOMAS JEFFERSON FORESEES FASCIST TAKEOVER OF USA

Mankind soon learn to make interested uses

of every right and power which they possess, or may assume.

The public money and public liberty,

intended to have been deposited with three branches of magistracy,

but found inadvertently to be in the hands of one only,

will soon be discovered to be sources of wealth

and dominion to those who hold them;

distinguished, too, by this tempting circumstance,

that they are the instrument, as well as the object, of acquisition.

WITH MONEY WE WILL GET MEN, SAID CAESAR,

AND WITH MEN WE WILL GET MONEY.

(emphasis added)

— THOMAS JEFFERSON, Notes on Virginia

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JFK LEGACY

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Please read my @RollingStone article on Pres. Kennedy's legacy:

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JFK Secret Societies Speech (full version)
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GOP Represents The DARK SIDE Of Human Endeavors. 
Never Forgive Or Forget. Never Give-up Or Quit. 
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FDR

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FDR calls it like it is...only this time around it's a lot closer to home. pic.twitter.com/r2oLszlqUW

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http://www.fdrheritage.org/bill_of_rights.htm

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DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER

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President Eisenhower Speech: Humanity Hanging from a Cross of Iron: http://

youtu.be/eGQ-wgPGTp8  via @youtube

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Mankind soon learn to make interested uses

of every right and power which they possess, or may assume.

The public money and public liberty,

intended to have been deposited with three branches of magistracy,

but found inadvertently to be in the hands of one only,

will soon be discovered to be sources of wealth

and dominion to those who hold them;

distinguished, too, by this tempting circumstance,

that they are the instrument, as well as the object, of acquisition.

WITH MONEY WE WILL GET MEN, SAID CAESAR,

AND WITH MEN WE WILL GET MONEY.

(emphasis added)

— THOMAS JEFFERSON, Notes on Virginia

President Eisenhower Speech: Humanity Hanging from a Cross of Iron

Listen To The Speech:
President Eisenhower Speech: Humanity Hanging from a Cross of Iron: http://youtu.be/eGQ-wgPGTp8  via @youtube


And Read About It; (From Wikipedia) GOTO:  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chance_for_Peace_speech

Background[edit]

Eisenhower took office in January 1953, with the Korean War winding down. The Soviet Union had detonated an atomic bomb, and appeared to reach approximate military parity with the United States.^[1] Political pressures for a more aggressive stance toward the Soviet Union mounted, and calls for increased military spending did as well. The death of Joseph Stalin on March 5, 1953, briefly left a power vacuum in the Soviet Union and offered a chance for rapprochement with the new regime, as well as an opportunity to decrease military spending.^[2]

The speech[edit]

Wikisource has original text related to this article: The Chance for Peace

The speech was a peace initiative, addressed to the American Society of Newspaper Editors, in Washington D.C., on April 16, 1953. Eisenhower took an opportunity to highlight the cost of continued tensions and rivalry with the Soviet Union.^[3] While addressed to the American Society of Newspaper Editors, the speech was broadcast nationwide, through use of television and radio, from the Statler Hotel.^[4] He noted that not only were there military dangers (as had been demonstrated by the Korean War), but an arms race would place a huge domestic burden on both nations (see guns and butter):

“Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.
This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. The cost of one modern heavy bomber is this: a modern brick school in more than 30 cities. It is two electric power plants, each serving a town of 60,000 population. It is two fine, fully equipped hospitals. It is some fifty miles of concrete pavement. We pay for a single fighter with a half-million bushels of wheat. We pay for a single destroyer with new homes that could have housed more than 8,000 people. . . . This is not a way of life at all, in any true sense. Under the cloud of threatening war, it is humanity hanging from a cross of iron.^[1][5]”

Legacy[edit]

Eisenhower's "humanity hanging from a cross of iron" evoked William Jennings Bryan's Cross of Gold speech. As a result, "The Chance for Peace speech", colloquially, became known as the "Cross of Iron speech" and was seen by many as contrasting the Soviet Union’s view of the post-World War II world, with the United States' cooperation and national reunion view.^[6]

Despite Eisenhower's hopes as expressed in the speech, the Cold War deepened during his time in office.^[7] His farewell address was "a bookend" to his Chance for Peace speech.^[1][8] In that speech, he implored Americans to think to the future and "not to become the insolvent phantom of tomorrow",^[9] but the large peacetime military budgets that became established during his administration have continued for half a century.^[10]

Historians have debated whether the speech given by Eisenhower was sincere in aiming to end the Cold War or whether it was merely a propaganda ploy.^[11] The Cold War did not end once the speech was delivered, but continued for decades.

It Should Be Noted That: ABC's Jonathan Karl reports: This week’s Conservative Political Action Conference in Washington has a co-sponsor from the far-right fringe of American politics:   The John Birch Society. According to Ian Walters, a spokesman for CPAC, it’s the first time the John Birch Society has sponsored the conference.  That’s not surprising, considering that the Birch Society has long been considered wacky and extreme by conservative leaders. William F. Buckley famously denounced the John Birch Society and its founder Robert Welch in the early 1960s as “idiotic” and “paranoid. “  Buckley’s condemnation effectively banishing the group from the mainstream conservative movement.  Welch had called President Dwight D. Eisenhower a “conscious, dedicated agent of the communist conspiracy” and that the U.S. government was “under operational control of the Communist party.”  Buckley argued that such paranoid rantings had no place in the conservative movement or the Republican party.  Two years after Buckley’s death, the John Birch Society is no longer banished; it is listed as one of about 100 co-sponsors of the 2010 CPAC.  http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2010/02/farright-john-birch-society-2010/