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Hup, tup, thrrrrip, haw, and gorblimey if it ain’t ole George Romney foot-slogging it through Grosse Pointe, Michigan, the very fancy residential enclave of Detroit’s top auto executives, at the head of one thousand genuine, living, breathing demonstrators (civil rights). But alas, the hapless Governor picked a sad day for the parade, publicity-wise, and his Great Moral Crusade got reported way back in Thessalonians, or near the shipping news. Anyway, it was a bit of outdoor exercise for the former head of American Motors and his line of demonstrators, even though some of the brass in Grosse Pointe thought it pretty early to be introducing the ‘64 models.

The Atomic Energy Commission disclosed on June 30 that there’s evidence the Soviet Union has been conducting small nuclear tests in the atmosphere since mid-June. But, says the AEC, the evidence isn’t conclusive. Well, what evidence is conclusive, other than Thoreau’s fish in the milk? So the U.S. waits for more evidence, and while we wait we do not further our own work on nuclear weapons—because Mr. Kennedy said, on June 10, we wouldn’t. That was nice of Mr. Kennedy, but the military defense of the U.S. cannot be founded on Presidential promises to believe in the good faith of the enemy. It is not for us to prove that Moscow is arming itself, but for Moscow to prove that it isn’t. In the absence of that proof, the correct and prudent course is for the United States to go right ahead and arm itself to the teeth. To pluck the flower of peace we cannot stoop; we must rise, miles high, over the vast deserts of Nevada.

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Hup, tup, thrrrrip, haw, and gorblimey if it ain’t ole George Romney foot-slogging it through Grosse Pointe, Michigan, the very fancy residential enclave of Detroit’s top auto executives, at the head of one thousand genuine, living, breathing demonstrators (civil rights). But alas, the hapless Governor picked a sad day for the parade, publicity-wise, and his Great Moral Crusade got reported way back in Thessalonians, or near the shipping news. Anyway, it was a bit of outdoor exercise for the former head of American Motors and his line of demonstrators, even though some of the brass in Grosse Pointe thought it pretty early to be introducing the ‘64 models.

The Atomic Energy Commission disclosed on June 30 that there’s evidence the Soviet Union has been conducting small nuclear tests in the atmosphere since mid-June. But, says the AEC, the evidence isn’t conclusive. Well, what evidence is conclusive, other than Thoreau’s fish in the milk? So the U.S. waits for more evidence, and while we wait we do not further our own work on nuclear weapons—because Mr. Kennedy said, on June 10, we wouldn’t. That was nice of Mr. Kennedy, but the military defense of the U.S. cannot be founded on Presidential promises to believe in the good faith of the enemy. It is not for us to prove that Moscow is arming itself, but for Moscow to prove that it isn’t. In the absence of that proof, the correct and prudent course is for the United States to go right ahead and arm itself to the teeth. To pluck the flower of peace we cannot stoop; we must rise, miles high, over the vast deserts of Nevada.