Editorial Note
On April 16, 1953, President Eisenhower addressed the American Society of Newspaper Editors on “The Chance for Peace”. During his remarks, the President proposed that a mutual lessening of tensions between the United States and the Soviet Union might at once include and lead to “the reduction of the burden of armaments now weighing upon the world.” For sections of the address relating to the question of regulation of armaments, see Annex B to NSC 112/1, “Possibility of a New United States Disarmament Proposal in the Eighth General Assembly”, September 1, 1953, page 1204. The full text of “The Chance for Peace” speech and additional documentation on its origins and implementation are included in the compilation on the relations of the United States with the Soviet Union in volume VIII. It is also printed in Department of State Bulletin, April 27, 1953, pages 599–603, and Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1953, pages 179–188.