Note 210 — Chapter X · THE MEMORANDUM AND THE COMMUNIST PARTY LINE

Congressional Record, August 2, 1961, p. 13440, col. 1,b-2,t. “There have been dire predictions since the end of World War II that an attempt to defend ourselves would turn America into a garrison state. But, our defense budget has varied from 40 percent to 5 percent to 15 percent and down again to 9 percent of our gross national product, and our experience offers little confirmation for such fears.” Albert Wohlstetter, an official in the Rand Corporation. Congressional Record, June 16, 1960, p. 11911, col. 3,m. “From the radical left, and sometimes from the radical pacifists, we hear other voices of doom. We have great armed forces, they say, therefore our freedom is doomed by a garrison state. Or we have big businesses, therefore democracy is being strangled by greedy monopolies. We have ‘internal contradictions,’ as the ideologists love to say—labor versus capital, farms versus cities, importers versus exporters—and therefore democracy will soon tear itself to pieces.” (Press Release No. 3910, January 14, 1962. Address by Ambassador Adlai E. Stevenson, U.S. Representative to the U.N., before Anti-Defamation League of B’nai B’rith on the occasion of his receipt of the America’s Democratic Legacy Award, Hotel Plaza, New York, N.Y.)