Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-01-17
Dulles Defends Policy
As Risk for Peace
Firm Stands
Are Essential,
He Declares
BY JAMES E. ROPER

Secretary of State Dulles de-
Iclared today that American for
|eign policy is based on "a cal-
|culated risk for peace"
Mr.. Dulles said this was q
National policy. not a personal
policy nor a partisan policy.
Mr.. Dulles made the statement
lat a news conference devoted
largely to discussing Life mag
iazine article which quoted him
las declaring that. "the ability to
get to the verge without getting
into the war is the necessary
Iart."
Under a barrage Of questions,
Mr.. Dulles said that he never
would have expressed himself
in those exact words, but If the
sentence is taken in context and
in relation to public statements
on foreign policy it does not need
correction.
Calls Credit Excessive
MFR. Dulles said that the Life
|article-which praised the Sec
rotary for taking the United
States to the brink of war, but
mo further in the Korean, Indo-
Chinese and Formasan crises
gave him more credit than he
deserved.
Other factors than his policy
|of Difference. he said, were in
volyed in keeping the United
States out of renewed fighting.
He added, wryly, that he regret
ted some people have given him
too much credit, but he did not
regret that some people seemed
to agree with what he has done.
Earlier, Senator George, Dem
Iocrat Of Georgia, said American
foreign policy should be to go
as far away as We can in justice
land honor from any danger Of
involvement in war" The Senate
Foreign Relations Committee
chairman seemed to be taking
issue with the brink of war"
statement ascribed to MIR. Dulles.
Over 400 Mt Conference
/ Mr.. Dulles and his assistant
Secretary for Public Affairs, Carl
L McCardle, burst into laughter
J when they walked into the State
I Department auditorium for the
Secretary's regular news confer
Ience. It was the biggest he has
ever held.
I All 324 seats in the auditorium
were filled, IS persons stood
along the rear walls, and three
photographers kept shooting
their flash bulbs at the Secre-
tary.
/ With a smile, he opened the
news conference with the remark
that he had a statement on "a
matter Of current interest"
! After declaring that he did
not write the magazine article.
/ did not censor it and did not
know in advance of its publica-
/ ton date. Mr.. Dulles said that
the statements in it attributed
| to him in direct quotations are
close paraphraSes of what he
already has said elsewhere. The
Secretary continued:
Must Defend Values
II believe that the United
States should adopt every honor
able course to avoid engagement
in war. Indeed, have devoted
my whole life to the pursuit of q
ljust and durable peace.
II believe, however. that there
are basic moral values and vital
Interests for which we stand and
that the surest way to avoid war
| is to let it be known in advance
that we are prepared to defend
these principles. if need be. by
life itself.
This policy of seeking to pre-
vent war by preventing miscal-
culation by a potential aggressor
| is not a personal policy; it is not
| a partisan policy; it is a ma
Itional policy.
ut is expressed in mutual Sc
curity treaties which We now
have with AZ nations and which
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