Page:Longines Chronicles with Peter Frelinghuysen 1954 ARC-96008.ogv/14

Frelinghuysen
I don't think it's gambling on a war, I think it's very a forthright effort to prevent the outbreak of any such war. What we are saying, I think, in effect, to the world, to any potential aggressor, is that we are ready and able, prepared to go ahead and use whatever weapons at whatever place would seem most advisable. In other words, there will be immediate retaliation, as he pointed out, if there should be aggression.