Fraternity-Testvériség, 1964 (42. évfolyam, 1-12. szám)

1964-07-01 / 7. szám

F RATERN ITY

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Volume XLII

JULY 1964

Number 7

. . IT IS STILL NOT TOO LATE . .

FALSE PRIORITIES IN AMERICAN FOREIGN POLICY

NATO, keystone of the free world’s defense, is in a state of

chaotic disarray. De Gaulle’s recognition of Communist China; his withdrawal of French naval personnel from NATO; the Cyprus dispute; the disasters and disunity in Southeast Asia; the increased British and French trade with Castro despite American appeals — all indicate that Western unity is coming apart at the seams, much to the delight of the Kremlin.

Secretary of State Rusk spotlighted the main cause of the Western alliance’s problems on February 4th, when he deplored the false sense of relaxation which has led some of our allies to feel that they can

now place their own special policies above considerations of unity.

The origins of this illusion of detente are several. One is the over-optimism about the Moscow-Peking split. Much of the free world’s press has assumed that Russia will modify its aggressive goals because of its power struggle with China. Khrushchev is suddenly depicted as a friend of peace because Mao is more viciously aggressive. This is a repetition of our wartime illusion that Stalin had become our friend because Hitler attacked him. Khrushchev is still the man who put

missiles in Cuba, reinvaded Hungary behind a flag of truce, and issued the Berlin ultimatum. Moreover, as Mr. Rusk told the NATO foreign ministers on May 12th, Khrushchev must show the Communist world

that he is still as inflexible in pursuing the aims of world revolution as Mao.

The limited test ban and uranium agreements (which, whatever their merits, involved no progress whatever toward inspected disarmament) also furthered the myth of detente. But most destructive of all to free world unity is the underlying and unfounded belief that relaxing tensions, without removing their cause, can bring the end of the Cold