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Show AMERICA, THE BEAUTIFUL ? i Merle Riche Once again the dangers of ' personality diplomacy" are presented pre-sented before us in stark reality. strings attached to him. Like lambs going to the slaughter Congress bleats its bipartisan approval so that he may sally forth into the field of international diplomacy with a so-called strong hand. What has this approach ever amounted to?. Year after year under the guise of foreign aid we get further into debt to the tune of about $4 billion dollars a year in this tragedy of errors. Our presidents have saddled the American public with this amount for which they do not have to make an accounting, an honest and frank one. And to repeat Winston Churchill once again: "In this sad tale of wrong judgments formed by well-meaning well-meaning and able people, we now reach our climax. That we should have come to this sad pass makes those responsible, however,-honorable however,-honorable their motives, blameworthy blame-worthy before history." Let's re-enthrone the Constitution Con-stitution and interpret it to the benefit of America and Americans. I.. L".... Jl As we mentioned a few weeks ago "We grow older, but it is by no means certain that we grow up. The human character is a complicated thing, and its "elements do not necessarily march in step. It is. possible to be a sage in some things and a child in others, to be at once precocious and retarded, to be shrewd and foolish, serene and irritable. For some parts of our personalities may well be more mature than others; not infrequently we participate parti-cipate in the enterprise of an adult with the mood and manners of a child." We are indebted to Walter Lippman for this cogent bit. It is only because America's citizenry have been propagandized into believing that its President should have a free hand in foreign affairs and that executive agreements agree-ments and . what have you, can supersede the Constitution that we .come to this uncomplimentary pass. You cannot be a dictator and a President at the same time and in ' the field of foreign affairs the President of the United States becomes a dictator as far as his activities in relation to the Con-stitution Con-stitution is concerned. He has no |