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so we do not see the Nike rocket missle defense stations which guard a number of the large cities of the United States.
We read a great deal about defense in the newspapers, however, apd we feel the impact of defence costs in our pocketbooks.
Because of the presence in the world of a vicious antagonistic philosophy to which has been committed the human and material resourses of the Iron Curtain countries, we have been forced to continue to spend huge sums oh the development and production of increasingly intricate mechanisms of. distruction.
.Al member of Congress is never more aware of the heavy responsibilities which have been entrusted to him than when he has to face up to a vote on defense appropriations. He knows, in this era of the “H” bomb and worse, that too little defense could be as surely fatal as no defense. If an agressor w«!re to start a war, there would be. no cushions of time and distance, as in the past, to give us security while we recalculated and produced the increased protection in arms that the situation seemed to demand. The member of Congress wants to make certain that he is voting for a defense which the best military minds of the nation agree is adequate to the
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