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Show DEPARTMENT OF STATE 'Good Neighbor' Policy Proves Successful in This Hemisphere .- i By WALTER A. SHEAD This Is the fonrth of a series of six articles on the state department depart-ment and Its personnel by Walter A. Shead, Western Newspaper Union's Washington correspondent. Washington, D. C There can be no doubt but that the foreign policy of the United States, as carried out by the state department, toward Latin and South America today has brought about stronger ties of friendship than has ever before existed. ex-isted. The dollar diplomacy of by-gone eras has given away to the "good neighbor" policy of former Secretary Secre-tary of State Cordell Hull, and this has been carried on and strengthened strength-ened by successive secretaries of state Edward Stettinius, James Byrnes, George C. Marshall and Dean Acheson. Through the Pan-American Union, the inter-American affairs institute, as a result of non-aggression pacts and economic pacts of Mexico City and Rio de Janeiro, Bogota and Havana, there has come to be mutual mu-tual cooperation and respect between be-tween the American republics. The bureau of inter-American affairs af-fairs in the state department is headed by Edward G. Miller, Jr., born in Puerto Rico, a graduate of Yale and Harvard, a former law partner of John Foster Dulles in New York, and who speaks Spanish and Portuguese as easily as he speaks English. In a recent address, Secretary Acheson said that as a result of Miller's operation of the inter-American affairs bureau "our relations with the southern hemisphere hemi-sphere are on a basis which I think they have never been before. They are on a sensible, sound basis of mutual advantage, and both they and we know that we both really mean business when we talk and when we talk, we talk business." The main object of our foreign policy in the Americas is to maintain main-tain the security of our nation and of the hemisphere. Second our ob- r . j v x - & 1 f, Mi- 1 liinl ;i.Aiaaiifr.VitllrM JOHN E. PEURIFOY DEPUTT ASSISTANT SECRETARY OF STATE Born Waterboro, S. C, Anf. 9. 1907, son of John H. and Emll Wrieht Puerlfoy. Student U. S. Military Academy, 1926-28, American University, Univer-sity, 1935, Georg-e Washington University, Univer-sity, 1939-40. - Married Betty Jane Cox, Oct. 2, 1936. Two children, John Clinton and Daniel Byrd. Entered department of state October 1, 1938. Designated deputy under secretary of state on May 81, 1949. jective is to encourage democratic representative institutions and to cooperate in the economic field. It is our policy to strengthen the organization or-ganization of the American states within the framework cf the United Nations as the most effective expression ex-pression of law and order in this hemisphere. OUR FOREIGN POLICY with respect re-spect to Germany has been stymied sty-mied for the time because of the Russian aggressive policy. But from the first we have supported a unified uni-fied German government based on free and democratic elections. It is our policy to rebuild Germany economically with the help of the Germans themselves, but to keep from them the potentials of making war. As an occupying power it is our objective to prohibit institutions and activities dangerous to peace and to encourage a truly democratic democrat-ic society which can become again closely integrated with the free nations na-tions of Europe. In the near east, Africa and south Asia our policy is to offer economic and technical assistance if these people want it. Also, we are ready, if they want our aid to help them solve their complex problems of internal, in-ternal, political and social life which such nations as India, Par-kistan, Par-kistan, the East Indian Republic and other newly formed nations in that area face as a result of the dislocation and disturbances following fol-lowing the war. The foreign economic policy of the United States is aimed at breaking break-ing down barriers to world trade and to increasing the international flow of investment capital through the reciprocal trade agreements program, the proposed international trade organization and the point four program. The Marshall plan, the North Atlantic At-lantic pact, the military aid program pro-gram and the Truman doctrine in Greece and Turkey have withered Communist hopes for over-running the European continent. Our support sup-port of the so-called Schuman plan, it is believed, will end their hope of communizing western Germany. It may have appeared that we had neglected or abandoned Asia and China, but as a matter-of-fact, negotiations had been going on for some time with a number of nations for economic and technical assistance, assist-ance, particularly in the field of agriculture, before the invasion of Korea. One of the things that has been lacking in United States foreign policy is an effective world information informa-tion service to successfully combat the Russian propaganda of lies and deceit. |