Editorial Note
On April 16, 1953, President Dwight D. Eisenhower delivered an address titled “The Chance for Peace” before the American Society of Newspaper Editors in Washington. The speech, which was broadcast over television and radio, appealed to the leadership of the Soviet Union to show evidence of peaceful purposes, particularly in negotiations on regulation of armaments and on Korea. The President also asked for “an end to the direct and indirect attacks upon the security of Indochina and Malaya,” stating that “any armistice in Korea that merely released aggressive armies to attack elsewhere would be a fraud.” For the text of the address, see Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1953, pages 179–188, or Department of State Bulletin, April 27, 1953, pages 599–603.