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...would seem that world foreign policies can be divided into two types: peace-at-any-price and brink-of-war. Thank goodness our Secretary of State has the courage to place justice and morality in international affairs above peace. I'm not surprised that the British object to this type of foreign policy. After all, one of their leaders carried his umbrella to Munich. But it is a source of disappointment that some Democrats are so hard pressed for an election-year issue...
Waltzing to the brink of destruction with an H-bomb tucked snugly under his arm may be Mr. Dulles' foolhardy idea of a sort of can-can diplomacy. But the true art of diplomacy remains neither to taunt nor to boast nor berate but to persuade. This is the art Mr. Dulles completely lacks. Wherever he has traveled, he has made us no friends. He has proved more an irritant internationally than a salve...
...Democrats are so horrified at the thought of Dulles bringing us face to face with the "brink of war," then it seems fair that the Republicans can publicly be even more upset about the way the Truman Administration let us fall over backward into...
...that we have lately witnessed is the Secretary of State's recent magazine advertising of his peculiar talent for rattling the saber and brandishing the bomb ... If the Eisenhower Administration has to brag some more about something, I wish it could boast instead about resolute marches to the brink of peace instead of to the brink of war . . . And another thing-the sudden Soviet pressure for a treaty of friendship implying that any agreement on Germany depends on the U.S. accepting this treaty calls for most careful consideration. We must not appear to the free peoples of the world...
...promised a dynamic foreign policy, and I guess it has been dynamic. It has shot forward and then backward and up and down . . . The only trouble is that we don't seem to have gone forward. I wish Mr. Dulles would think more about bringing us to the brink of peace...