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Show A Loo At Our Foreign Policy The Democratic Advisory Council this week issued the second in a series yf ten pamphlets on "Foreign and Military Policy for Peace and Security." The pamphlet is entitled "Why We Need Allies anjl They Need Us to Preserve the Free World." The pamphlet was prepared for the council by its 30 member mem-ber advisory committee on foreign policy. Dean Acheson .s Continued on Page 2) ' l A Look At Our Foreign Policy (Continued from Page 1) chairman of the committee. The first pamphlet in the series "Where We Are: The World of Today and How It Got That Way" was issued last year. The Advisory Committee on Economic Policy, Dr. John Kenneth Galbraith, chariman, is preparing a complementary pamphlet series on domestic problems facing the nation. These publications are a real service to all of us Democrat Demo-crat and Republican alike. They serve to make us aware of world and domestic conditions con-ditions many of us have forgotten or perhaps never knew. They serve to puncture the Republican myth that all is well as long as the GOP is in control. In the current booklet the advisory council asks: What is our Foreign Policy? "The world," continues the booklet, "is not a safe or simple place. It is full of momentous dangers and sudden changes, overshadowed by growth of aggressive Russian power and the possibility of atomic warfare. "Beset by these international complications, swamped by the flood of information that pours in on us from all parts of the world, deafened by claims of advocates of various foreign interests, or by those who are sure they know just what is needed to settle the problems of China, or North Africa, or India, or the Middle East, it is no wonder that American citizens sometimes ask themselves "What is our foreign policy, anyhow?" "Secretary Dulles tried to do this last year. The answer, he said in effect, is to maintain our security, preserve our economic interests and uphold our political ideals. "This seems like a good answer until you stop to examine it. Then you notice that the element of 'how' is missing. How fjrp wp tn nhtain these desirable objectives? What means are we to use to further our security and our interest and our ideals? "Foreign ideals is a problem of how of the choice of means because in foreign policy we are dealing with a lot of other nations concerned about their security and their interests and their ideals. The problem of bringing ours and theirs together to-gether for harmony and peace is the problem of foreign policy. No definition of foreign policy that gives only our side of the equation is enough. "Indeed, a statement of foreign policy that is concerned only with our aims is likely to be worse than inadequate. It is likely to be dangerous if it does not take into account the interests in-terests of other nations." "When the Republican administration came in, in 1953, it decided to emphasize our side of the foreign policy problem. It announced that its first aim was to pursue United States national na-tional interest, and it played down our interest in working cooperatively co-operatively with other nations. This may have sounded patriotic. "V In practice it has not only failed to serve our national interest, but has actually injured the U. S. ) "The moment we began to emphasize that-our policy was directed primarily to the pursuit of United States amis and interests, other nations were forced to look more closely to their own narrow interests. If we were to focus on United States, rather than one the creation and defense of a system under which we, along with other independent nations could survive and prosper, the British were bound to look primarily to United Kingdom interests, the French to French interests, the Germans, Latin Americans and so on, each to their iown immediate interests. in-terests. That is what happened as the Republican Administration went from agonizing reappraisals in 1953 tclthe brink of disaster in Suez in 1956." i A I t j s ' . |