New York, June 22—Mr. James Reston, who is a very eloquent man, wonders what has happened to eloquence these days. His reference is to the performance thus far at the United Nations, where the mighty of the world have met to deplore the huge planetary budget for arms. It isn’t that Reston expected that anything would come of it: nothing, really, ever does under UN sponsorship. But Reston bemoans the absent voices. Men like Roosevelt, and Churchill, and de Gaulle, he said, could by their eloquence affect events. Their successors—Carter, Giscard, Callaghan —speak, and all the birdies stay perched on the trees. Meanwhile, the objective situation, as described, is quite awful. He recites the figures.
We are spending $400 billion per year on arms in the world, which is more than we are spending on education.
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