Evening star., 1944-04-10
By the Associated Press.

Following is the tert OF Sec
retdry OF State HuTs address
last night on American foreign
policy:
l want to talk with you this eve.
ming about the foreign policy of th,
United States. This Is not. as som,
writer's assume, mysterious gam,
carried on by diplomats with Other
diplomats in foreign Offices all ovel
the world. 1t is for us the task Of
focusing and giving effect in tn.
world outside our borders to the
will Of $4,000, 900 people through
the constitutional processes which
govern our democracy.
For this reason our foreign policy
must be simple and direct ano
founded upon the interests and pur.
poses of the American people. II
has continuity of basic detectives
because it is rooted in the tradi-
tions and aspirations of our people
1t must, of course, be applied in the
light Of experience and the lessons
Of the past.
In talking about foreign policy it
Is well to remember, as Justice
Holmes said, that a page of history
Is worth a volume of logic. There
are three outstanding lessons in our
recent history to which I particu.
larly wish to draw your attention.
From Weakness to Strength.
In the first place, since the out
break of the present war in Europe
we and those nations who are now
our Allies have moved from relative
weakness to strength. In the Sec
ond place, during that same period
we in this country have moved
from a deep-seated tendency to-
ward separate action to the knowl-
edge and conviction that only
through unity of action can there
be achieved in this world, the re-
suits which are essential for the
continuance of free peoples. And,
thirdly, we have moved from a
careless tolerance of evil institu-
tions to the conviction that free
governments and Nazi and Fascist
governments cannot exist together
in this world, because the very ma
ture of the latter requires them to
be aggressors and the very nature
of free governments too often lays
them open to treacherous and we'll
laid plans of attack.
An understanding of these points
will help to clarity the policy which
this Government has been and is
following.
With Fall Of France.
In 1910, with the fall of France,
the peoples of the free world awoke
with horror to find themselves on
the very brink of defeat. Only
Britain in the west and China in
the east stood between them and
disaster. and the space on which
they stood was narrow and pre-
carious., AT that moment the free
nations were militarily weak and
their enemies and potential enc
mics were strong and well prepared.
Even before that this country had
begun its preparations for self
defense. Soon thereafter we started
upon the long, hard road of mo-
bilizing our great natural resources,
our vast productive potentianties,
and our reserves of manpower to
defend ourselves and to strengthen
those who were resisting the ag-
gressors.
This was q major decision of
foreign policy. Since that decision
was made We have moved far from
the former position. We and our
Allies are attaining - strength
which can leave no doubt as to
the outcome. That outcome is far
from achieved. There are des-
perate periods still before us, but
we have built the strength which
we sought and we need only to
maintain the will to use it.
This decision which we have made
and carried out was not a decision
to make q mere sporadic effort. An
episode is not a policy. The Amer
lean people are determined to press
forward with cur Allies to the defeat
Of our enemies and the destruction
of the Nazi and Fascist systems
which plunged us into the war. And
they are also determined to 60 on,
after the victory, with our Allies and
all other nations which desire peace
and freedom to establish and main
tain IN full strength the institutions
without which peace and freedom
cannot be an enduring reality.
We cannot move in and out of
international cooperation and in
and out of participation in the re-
sponsibilities Of a member of the
family of nations. The political,
material and spiritual strength of
the free and democratic nations
not only is greatly dependent upon
the strength which our full partici-
patton brings to the common effort,
but, as we now know, is a vital fac
tor in our own strength. As it is
with the keystone of an arch, neither
the keystone nor the arch can stand
alone.
Relations With NeutraIs.
Tnls growth OF our strength en-
tails consequences in our foreign
policy. Let us look first at our rela-
tions with the neutral nations.
In the two years following Pearl
Harbor, while we were mastering
our strength and helping to restore
that OF our Allies, our relations with
these neutral nations and their at
titude toward our enemies were con-
ditioned by the position In which
we found ourselves. We have con-
stantly sought to keep before them
what they, of course, know-that on
our victory hangs their very exist
ence and freedom as independent
nations. We have sought in every
way to reduce the aid which their
trade with the enemy gives him and
to increase the strength which We
might draw from them. But oul
power was limited. They and We
have continually been forced to ac-
cept compromises which we certainly
would not have chosen.
That period, I believe, is rapidly
drawing to close. 1t is clear to al
, that our strength and that of oul
Allies now makes only one outcome
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