The Last Progressive President: July 1946

H.A. is fighting a segment of the military and the industries that supply the military. They want to maintain the budgets and profits of the war economy. These insidious and incestuous allies are fostering the fear of the red menace, in the form of the Soviet Union, to keep the United States on a constant war status. H.A. is fighting these efforts and is working with Congress to reduce the budget of the military to bring us into a peace economy. Fortunately, there are leaders in the military who share H.A.'s interest in turning to peace. Our efforts will be successful. Our efforts must be successful ensure world peace and the extension of the New Deal.

For example, we have prohibited additional tests of atomic bombs that were planned in the Pacific and the production of additional bombs. H.A. wants to demonstrate to the Soviets that we are not seeking global dominance as the sole holder of these horrific weapons. Testing and building more of these bombs will scare the Soviet Union - - Stalin is already paranoid - - in developing this weapon and out manufacturing us in the number of bombs. This would become a race to produce more and more bombs, which would create the capacity to destroy the world multiple times over. We must act reasonably now to prevent this arms race insanity.

Too ensure that the world understands his commitment to peace, H.A. has also stopped plans to arm Latin America with conventional weapons, the production of more B-29s, the planned production of B-36s, and efforts to secure and build air bases across the globe.

H.A. said, "We should not act as if we too felt that we were threatened in today's world. We are by far the most powerful nation in the world, the only Allied nation which came out of the war without devastation and much stronger than before the war. Any talk on our part about the need for strengthening our defenses further is bound to appear hypocritical to other nations."