Principles and Heresies The Khrushchev Kennedy Treaty

A verell harriman, the Hero of Laos, has negotiated and initialed the nuclear test-ban treaty. John F. Kennedy, the Hero of the Bay of Pigs, in a nationwide television speech, has opened the barrage designed to smother sober consideration and criticism of the treaty in a welter of emotion. Nothing now stands in the way of establishing it, substantively and symbolically, as the settled policy of the United States, except to secure the advice and consent of the Senate. Rarely has the utmost deliberate consideration been more demanded of the Senate, yet every device available to the Administration is being pressed into service to bring about a precipitate, unconsidered and emotional ratification.

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Frank S. Meyer was a senior editor of National Review.

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A verell harriman, the Hero of Laos, has negotiated and initialed the nuclear test-ban treaty. John F. Kennedy, the Hero of the Bay of Pigs, in a nationwide television speech, has opened the barrage designed to smother sober consideration and criticism of the treaty in a welter of emotion. Nothing now stands in the way of establishing it, substantively and symbolically, as the settled policy of the United States, except to secure the advice and consent of the Senate. Rarely has the utmost deliberate consideration been more demanded of the Senate, yet every device available to the Administration is being pressed into service to bring about a precipitate, unconsidered and emotional ratification.

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