Salt Lake Telegram | 1952-01-01 | Page 8 | Fruit of Ineptness

Fruit o of Ineptness The four American airmen who ho were forced down in Hungary are safely back backon on this side of the Iron Curtain Curtain and and for that we are glad But we are not glad for the humiliating humiliating humiliating manner in which their release was arranged It isn't the That sum of money in America today is peanuts But its it's the principle of oC the thing thing thing-a a great and proud nation paying off a fourth rate power to buy the liberty of oC its citizens That is galling And there is scant satisfaction in the countermeasures taken by our government government govern govern- ment Closing two Hungarian consulates in this country and banning travel by Americans to Hungary are steps of reprisal which communism can laugh off Ve We have lost face on this exchange Secretary of State Acheson in commenting commenting commenting com com- on the incident said there is a adeep adeep adeep deep current of indignation in tin America over the treatment they have received There is indeed But the indignation goes a bit farther than that Ve We are arc not only indignant over Hungary's action we weare weare are arc indignant and hum humiliated and frustrated frustrated frustrated frus frus- over Americas America's action Ve We do donot donot donot not know exactly what our government could have done to avoid this humiliation humiliation humiliation humilia humilia- tion in the full sight of the world but we do have a feeling that somehow this kind of pushing around is the fruit of ineptness and failure in our foreign policy And we think Americans are as indignant over the demonstration of oC American failure and weakness in world affairs as they are over Hungarian infamy and maliciousness