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Show A Further Analsis of the Free World Environment In the free world environment we seek, many other states and peoples than our own play essential, though varying, parts. The very spaciousness of the environment is a significant quality. Furthermore, in the maintenance of it, the factors of military strength, economic vigor and political unity are all necessary to support one or another in accomplishing the end sought. The indispensable center of the economic and military strength of this group of free states is the Western Hemisphere and Western Europe. The survival and development of free nations will rest upon the strength and unity of this central core. This, in turn, means that the freedom of Western Europe from Soviet domination is essential to preservation of this core. Dithout Western Europe as part of it, no strong and free group of nations will exist. On the contrary, should Western European production be available to the Soviet Union, it could extend its hegemony over Asia and Africa, perhaps even over South America. Under these circumstances, this nation could not be preserved in anything like its present form. This conclusion does not deprecate the importance of other areas outside the Western Hemisphere and Western Europe. Obviously the Middle East, with its oil and as the crossroads of East-West and North-South routes, South Asia, Southeast Asia, the Far East and Africa and all associated with vital interests of a free world system. It would be disastrous should any of these areas now free be detached from the free and open world and be added to the closed Soviet Communist system. But the prime disaster would be to have this happen to Western Europe if for no other reason that that it would greatly enhance the likelihood of its occurring in the other areas as well. |
