European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - January 21, 1953, Darmstadt, Hesse                                January 1953 the stars and stripes Page 5 a next of eisenhower9s inaugural speech president stresses strength lies la Unity 20 the prepared text of the inaugural address of president Dwight Eisenhower my fellow citizens the world and we have passed 4he Midway Point of a Century of continuing we sense with All our faculties that forces of Good and evil Are massed and armed and opposed As rarely before in fact defines the meaning of this we Are by this honoured and historic to witness More than the act of one citizen swearing his oath of serv in the presence of his we Are called As a to give in the sight of the to our Faith that the future shall belong to the since this Century a Votoe of tempest has seemed to come upon the continents of the masses of Asia have wakened to strike off shackles of the great nations of Europe have waged their bloodiest thrones have top pled and their vast empires have new nations have been describes nations efforts insight to achieve peace for our own it has been a time of recurring trial we have grown in Power and in Respo Sibil we have passed through the anxieties of depression and of War to a Summit unmatched in mans seeking to secure peace in the we have had to fight Lerough the forests of the Argonne to the shores of iwo and to the Mountain peaks of in the Swift Rush of great we find ourselves groping to know the full sense and mean ing of the times in which we in our quest of understand we beseech gods we summon All our knowledge of the past and we scan All signs of the we bring All our wit and will to meet the question How far have we come in mans Long pilgrimage from darkness to Light Are we nearing the Day of Freedom and of peace for All Mankind or Are the shadows of another night closing in upon us great As Are the preoccupations absorbing us at concerned As we Are with matters that deeply affect our livelihood today and our vision of the each of these problems is dwarfed and often even created this question that involves All human this trial comes at a moment when mans Power to achieve Good or to inflict evil surpasses the brightest Hopes and the sharpest Lears of All we can turn Rivers in their level mountains to the Ocean and land and sky Are avenues for our Colos Sal disease diminishes and life declares Faith of defines full View of life yet the Promise of this life is imperilled by the very Genius that has made it nations amass labor sweats to turns out devices to level not Only mountains but also science seems ready to Confer upon As its final the Power to erase human life from the at such a time in we who Are free must proclaim anew our 1 this Faith is the abiding Creed of our it is our Faith in the deathless dignity of governed by eternal moral and natural this Faith defines our full View of it beyond those gifts of the creator that Are mans inalienable and that make All men equal in his in the Light of this we know that the Virtues most cherished by free of Pride of Devotion to Are treasures equally precious in the lives of the most Humble and of the most the men who mine Coal and fire furnaces and balance ledgers and turn lathes and pick Cotton and heal the sick and Plant serve As and As for America As the statesmen who draft treaties or the legislators who enact warns those who seek to deny racial Equality this Faith rules our whole Way of it decrees that the elect leaders not to Rule but to it asserts that we have the right to Choice of our own work and to the Reward of our own it inspires the initiative that makes our productivity the wonder of the and it warns that any Man who seeks to deny Equality in All his Brothers betrays the spirit of the free and invites the mockery of the it is because All of hold to these principles that the political changes accomplished this Day do not imply upheaval or rather this expresses a purpose of strengthening our dedication and Devotion to the precepts of our founding a conscious renewal of Faith in our country and in the watchfulness of a divine the enemies of this Faith know no god but no Devotion but its they Tutor men in they feed upon the hunger of whatever defies they especially the says Faith belongs to All free nations is joined no pallid argument Between slightly differing this conflict strikes directly at the Faith of our fathers and the lives of our no Prin Ciple or treasure that we from the spiritual knowledge of our free schools and churches to the creative magic of free labor and nothing beyond the reach of Freedom is pitted against slav Ery Light against the Faith we hold belongs not to us alone but to the free of All the this common binds the grower of Rice in Burma and the planter of wheat in the Shepherd in Southern Italy and the Mountaineer in the it confers a common dignity upon the French Soldier who Dies in the British Soldier killed in the american life Given in we beyond that we Are linked to All free Peoples not merely by a Noble idea but by a simple no free people can for Long cling to any privilege or enjoy any safety in economic sol for All our own material even we need markets in the world for the surpluses of our farms and of our we need for these same farms and factories vital materials and products of Distant this new chief executive urges Faith in future Basic Law of so Manifest in the Commerce of applies with thousandfold intensity in the event of so Are we persuaded by Neces sity and by belief that the strength of All free Peoples lies in their danger in to produce this to meet the Challenge of our destiny has Laid upon our country the responsibility of the free worlds Leader so it is proper that we As sure our friends once again in the discharge of this we americans know and observe the difference Between world leadership and imperialism Between firmness and truculent be Between a thoughtfully calculated goal and spasmodic reaction tothe stimulus of lists guiding principles in pressing for peace we wish our friends the world Over to know this above All we face the with dread and with Confidence and we feel this moral strength be cause we know that we Are not helpless prisoners of we Are free we shall remain never to be proven guilty of the one capital offence against a Lack of staunch in pleading our just cause before the bar of history and in pressing our labor for word we shall be guided by certain fixed Prin these principles Are War As a chosen Way to balk the purposes of those who threaten we hold it to be the first task of statesmanship to develop the strength that will deter the forces of aggression and pro Mote the conditions of As it must be the supreme Pur pose of All free so it must be the dedication of their to save humanity from preying upon willing to cooperate in eliminating distrust in the Light of this we stand ready to engage with any and All others in joint Effort to remove the causes of Mutual fear and distrust among and so to make possible drastic reduction of the sole requisites for undertaking such of Nixon asks veep be kept for Barkley 20 vice president Richard Nixon said he Hopes the term veep can be reserved forever for former vice president Alben the term was invented by one of Barkley Young granddaughters who didst understand what meant and  pronounce the two i think the word veep applies particularly As a term of affection for vice president bark Ley and should go with Nixon forts Are their they be aimed logically and Hon Estly toward sure peace for All and their provide methods by which every participating nation will prove Good Faith in carrying out its that common sense and common decency alike dictate the futility of w e shall never try to placate an aggressor by the false and wicked bargain of trading Honor for for in the final Choice a soldiers pack is not so heavy a Burden As a prisoners that Only a United states that is Strong and immensely productive can help defend free Dom in our we View our nations strength and Security As a Trust upon which rests the Hope of free men it is the firm duty of each of our free citizens and of every free citizen everywhere to place the of his country before the Comfort of the identity and heritage of each nation of the we shall never use our strength to try to impress upon another people our own cherished political and economic will other nations in quest for Security s s e s s i n g realistically the needs and capacities for proven friends of we shall strive to help them to achieve their own Security and we shall count upon them to As within the limits of their their full and just Bur Den in the common defense of economic health As an indispensable basis of Mili tary strength and the free worlds we shall strive to Foster and to practice our policies that encourage productivity and profitable for the impoverishment of any single people in the world Means danger to the Well being of All other that economic military Security and political Combine to suggest regional groupings of free within the framework of the United to help strengthen such special Bonds the world the nature of those ties must vary with the different problems of different asks european nations to push Unity efforts in the Western we join with All our neighbors in the work of perfecting a Community of fraternal Trust and Pur in we ask that enlightened and inspired leaders of the Western nations strive with renewed vigor to make the Unity of their Peoples a Only As free Europe unitedly marshals its strength can it effectively Safe even with our its spiritual and cultural the defense of like Freedom to be one and we hold All continents and Peoples in equal regard and we reject any insinuation that one race or one people or is in any sense he declares peace to continue As goal inferior or the United nations As the living sign of All Peoples Hope for we shall strive to make it not merely an eloquent Symbol but an effective and in our quest of honorable we shall neither nor nor Ever by these rules of Hope to be known to All by their an Earth of peace May become not a vision but a this supreme Aspira Rule the Way we people must be ready to accept sacrifices we must be ready to dare All for our for history does not Long entrust the care of free Dom to the weak or the must acquire proficiency in defense and display stamina in we must be individually and As a to accept whatever sacrifices May be required of a people that values its above its principles soon loses these Basic precepts Are not lofty far removed from mat ters of daily they Are Laws of spiritual strength that generate and define our material patriotism Means equipped forces and a prepared moral stamina Means More Energy and More of the farm and in the love of Liberty Means the guarding of every re source that makes Freedom possible the Sanctity of our families and the wealth of our soil to the Genius of our so each citizen plays an indispensable the productivity of our our hands and our hearts is the source of All the strength we can for both the enrichment of our lives and the win Ning of desire for peace called fulfilment of Faith no no no Community can be beyond the reach of this we Are summoned to act in Wisdom and in conscience to work with to teach with to preach with to weigh our every deed with care and with for this truth must be Clear be fore us whatever America Hopes to bring to pass in the world must first come to pass in the heart of the peace we is nothing less than the practice and the fulfilment four whole among ourselves and in our Deal Ings with it signifies More than stilling the easing the of More than an escape from it is a Way of More than a Haven for the it is a Hope for the this is the Hope that beckons us Onward in this Century of this is the work that awaits us to be done with with with prayers to Al mighty co crawls through minefield saves patrol on korean front a by Robert elegant with the 7th inf 20 napalm and trip flares began to explode in front of the the company commander knew that another patrol had strayed into a the same thing had happened the night but this time 23year old 1st it Gerald of knew every one of the eight soldiers trapped in no mans he was now commanding co but the reconnaissance patrol came from his old platoon in co As he enemy mortars began to fire at the he decided he would have to pull the soldiers out of the danger they had walked into by taking the wrong patrol the wiry former University of Maine athlete ordered a medic to follow him and started out for the minefield 600 Yards the two men had to crawl on their hands and Knees in order to move at the night was so Black that they could find their Way Only by feeling with their but crawling gave them a better Chance of avoiding Morse had no idea where the mines were some had been planted by the Allied forces and others by the after an hour of groping in the dark they found six members of the patrol who had managed to extricate themselves from the mine Only one Man was not amazingly he was the Point first Man in the said the lieutenant Young pvt Victor of St managed to walk through the entire minefield with out setting off a single flare or napalm tie medic was wounded by mor tar so Morse crawled on into the minefield finally he found the two trapped and injured men 81mm mortar sect of chief and the said we turned around and came As the wounded soldiers were being loaded into a Little jeep at the enemy mortars Emp laced on either Side of the minefield opened up but the men were Safe and All will its a funny mused Morse Only two men out of the 10 we rent Point Man and who should have been now dont go making me a