Nation: TO GOVERN IS TO CHOOSE

In a direct and forceful message to the Senate President Kennedy last week urged ratification of the newly signed test ban agreement. Excerpts:

THIS treaty is the first concrete result of 18 years of effort by the United States to impose limits on the nuclear arms race. There is hope that it may lead to further measures to arrest and control the dangerous competition for increasingly destructive weapons.

This treaty is the whole agreement. United States negotiators in Moscow were instructed not to make this agreement conditioned upon any other understanding; and they made none. The treaty speaks for itself.

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