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Show Monroe Doctrine Americanism Merle Riche Another summit conference is in the offing. Just what can come of it remains to be seen especially in the light of past results with the broken promises pro-mises that inevitably in-evitably follow. It seems to be that people are so thoroughly thorough-ly confused by the actions of the international. politicians that they do not know whether to pay attention to words or to deeds. And at the slightest protestation of good faith all experience is laid aside for the calculated risk of the present. The only thing a summit con-. con-. ference can do is to raise the prestige of Khrushchev. Every purpose served will be a Communist purpose. Can anyone be blamed if he has strong sus picions ? Have Americans not been warned enough? It is now about five years since one of the summit conferences took place. Khrushchev signed a most interesting agreement at that time' and all the conferees concurred. A paragraph from it reads like this: "The reunification of Germany by means of free elections shall be carried out. in conformity with the national interests of the German people and the interests of European security." Yet since that time Berlin has been used as a club with which to beat Americans over the head, to knock concessions out of them and to keep them in a state of perpetual quandary as to when and for what purpose the club will be wielded again and again and again. It is about time that Americans requested their top prize-fighters to get out of the international ring as no amount of sparring will . win the fight, and there are no rules upon which certainty can be exercised. And we are not particularly part-icularly used to clubs for weapons. Each day brings fresh reports of the disparity between Communist Com-munist words and deeds. A hate compaign of lies and abuse is still being waged against us. A compaign of' sweetness and light is being spread before us. The division which comes about between those who accept one or the other approach as being the true one weakens all America. Our weakness does not just happen. It is time we saw the common sense of 100 per cent Monroe-Doctrine Monroe-Doctrine Americanism. |