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Show WHAT FOREIGNERS THINK WORRIES AMERICAN WRITERS One of the strangest incidents in connection with the discussion of American policies is the habit of various writers to continually ask us what the other people of the world will think of our policies. poli-cies. Aside from the fact that what other people think of us is their business and the impossibility of appraising public opinion in foreign for-eign nations, it seems to be essentially essen-tially silly for Americans to try to frame a policy to capture popular pop-ular support in foreign countries. Walter Lippmann, who attacks the "officially" inspired interpretation interpre-tation of our policy toward General Gen-eral de Gaulle, warns us "not to imagine that the rest of Europe ... is not watching earnestly how we treat France." Apropos this observation, is it too much to expect that "the rest of Europe" will have sense enough to watch how France is treating the United States and' the United Nations? " We are getting tired of publicists, publi-cists, political leaders, authors and orators who are so worried about foreign reaction to American decisions de-cisions that they are unable to think clearly of the issue involved, particularly in terms of American interests. |