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Show I U. S. State Department Policies , ! ! The most important issue of the present decade is the f issue of Red China, it was indicated by a spokesman of the M,J A ( United States Department of State at the annual Editors' ifi-iv and Broadcasters' conference held this past week in Wash- .wZtif ington, D. C. I The role of Red China, the influence and present struggle for power in that country seemed to be uppermost upper-most in the minds of representatives of the department in programs evolving for the future and determining future policies for this country. The conference provided a means for the State De- ' partment to give a long range picture of what they are attempting at-tempting to do in various areas of the State Department's jurisdiction. Items discussed extensively at the conference confer-ence included the Foreign Aid Program, East Asian and pacific Affairs, Food for Peace program, Education and ' Cultural Affairs as well as the Peace Corps. Over the next several weeks it will be attempted to pass on to our readers information received at the conference con-ference and to give at least initially the State Department's Depart-ment's view of each of these areas. Certainly the conference served as a sounding board of fundamentals in the programs for which objective analysis an-alysis can be made of developments in the future as these programs are attempted to be implemented in the field. I Using the conference as a basis we will also attempt to inform our readers of the department's successes and possible deviations in a changing world and changing times. It would be folly to state that officials of state were not overwhelmingly happy over the recent voting in the United Nations whore the proposed seating of Red China was dofoated by a strong 11 vote margin. A member of the United States delegation indicated that a lobby was not necessary in the matter while an attempt in 19G5 which ended in a lie vote, required all the lobby techniques tech-niques at their command. The State Department credited the things with the strong opposition to Red China being seated. First was the hard line, militarist attitude being taken ta-ken in Red China itself during what was termed a definite power struggle, and second the firm adheranee to that commitment in Vietnam by the United States Government. They believe that those factors have won for the U. S. high prestige in East Asian affairs along w ith other programs pro-grams of AID. Food for Peace and Peace Corps operations. Those and many other factors influence our foreign policy and we hope over the next few weeks to bring to you just what those long range policies are in the various var-ious programs of the State Department. |