Evening star., 1954-12-05


urement, is the worlds greatest power,
not only materially, but spiritually. We
hove nosiono policies which ore cieor
and sound. They fit q civilization based
on religious foith. They ore strongly i'm
plemented and at cost we can afford
to live with They have evolved on O
non-portison bosis and. in brood outline.
they ore overwhelmingly backed by our
people. Such policies, | ON supremeIy
confident, will peacefully prevail.
In those reassuring words, Secre-
tary Of State John Foster Dulles
last Monday summed up his best
estimate of the world situation.
At the same time he rebuked his
most embarrassing critic, fellow
Republican Senator William F.
Knowland Of California.
Mr.. Dulles words set the tone
of the week: Administration conf
dence and tolerance in the face of
Red Chinese outrages.
BY the week end Senator Know
land had been all but smothered
with high-level administration an
sWers to his loud misgivings about
the trend of American foreign pol
icy. No one was so foolish, how
ever, as to suggest that Senator
Knowland's misgivings were on the
lunatic fringe.
His two major fears were shared
by the administration and, as Pres
ident Eisenhower oversimplified it,
the differences were. over methods,
not principles. Methods, of course,
varied from peaceful to. twarlike, SO.
! that they were really .al1-iIip ortant.i
III The principles were easily stated: ::
The United States must stop the
expansion of Red China in partic-
ular and of communism in general.
If they are not stopped the United
States and the free world are in
danger of being surrounded and
slowly swallowed up.
What are the methods the United
States should use? Here is a dis
cussion of methods, drawn from the
criticisms by Senator KnoWland and
the answers by President Eisen-
hover and Secretary Dulles.
Blockade Question
Knowland says: The United States
should clap naval and air block
ade on Communist China until she
releases the 13 Americans she says
i she has jailed.
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is to exhaust peaceful means of
sustaining our international rights
and those of our citizens, rather
than now resorting to war action
such as naval blockade of Red
China" Mr.. Dulles later explained
that blockade had not been ruled
out completely If peaceful pressures
fail.
Eisenhower adds: I'VE must be;
steady and refuse to be goaded into
4 actions that would be lInWise. .s.
Al blockade ID an act OF wai. D. |. q. lIf'
ever we come to a place that 7 feel
that a. step Of war is necessary, 1t
is going to be brought about not by
any impulsive individualistic act of
my own, but am going before the
Congress In the constitutional
method set up m this country, and
lay the problem before them, with
my recommendations. :"
NibbIing Aggression
Knowland says: "Co-existence and
atomic stalemate will result in ulti-
mate Communist victory. When
the free world has become paralyzed
and immobilized by the realization
that the United States and the
Soviet Union could act and react
one upon the other with over
whelming devastation the men
in the Kremlin will see their best
opportunity to take over periph-
eral nations bite by bite"
Dulles answers: "An aggressor
would have a great advantage if he
could attack single locality With
assurance of safety against retalia-
tion. We must have the capacity