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Show for God and Country ... frjj Legion Corner fejf News and Notes Sl?r ' FOR AND ABOUT LEGIONNAIRES &ZZ& Legion Chief Gives Views On Foreign Policy, National Security National Commander James E. Powers has stated that "the primary purpose of our foreign policy should be to protect and to advance America's interests in world affairs, af-fairs, while the primary purpose of our national security program is to provide the muscle to make that foreign mouse just about as far as we can pursue it. "In this game of give and take we have learned that the communists will take everything every-thing we are willing to give. This is their version of conciliation, concil-iation, mediation and negotiation. negotia-tion. The lines must be drawn clearly and sharply. They must be drawn now for we cannot barter the security and integrity integ-rity either of our allies or the non-committed nations of the world, and we are not about to give the communists anything that is ours," he concluded. policy effective." National Commander Powers in an address before the Women's Wom-en's Forum on National Security, Secur-ity, in Washington, D. C, reported re-ported that one-third of the total business of the Legion's 1962 National Convention in Las Vegas emanated from the organization's National Security Secur-ity and Foreign Relations Commissions. Com-missions. The two commissions considered consid-ered 225 resolutions that covered cov-ered the entire spectrum of national na-tional security measures, ranging rang-ing from support of an adequate ade-quate Civil Defense program to the acceleration of the exploration explora-tion of outer space. "Through favorable action on the vast majority of these mandates man-dates which we believe to be germane to the purpose of The American Legion, we have established es-tablished ourselves firmly on record as being in favor of actions ac-tions which we believe to be in the best interests of America Amer-ica .. . both for the strengthening strength-ening of our hand in foreign affairs and in girding the nation na-tion in faith and in strength to continue to resist the advance of international communism anywhere in the world," Commander Com-mander Powers maintained. He told the American Legion Le-gion Auxiliary conferees that we have played the deadly game of international cat and |