Abatement of the Arms Race

In order to meet the challenge of the coming decade, America must evolve a new foreign policy. The basis for this must be not "enlightened self-interest," but an exten sion of the religious principles on which this country was founded to apply to the citizens of every country in the world. By making the well-being of other nations and peoples our primary goal, we will benefit ourselves as well in a way which is not possible when a narrower view of world affairs is taken. This policy would mean a settlement of the German problem which is negotiated with the chief aim of benefiting all people concerned; it would mean a revision of our attitudes towards the Near East so that the good of the citizens of those coun tries becomes more important than the power benefits to be gained from control of their oil; it would mean the formation of strong co-operative bonds with our neighbors in South America; it would mean the establishment of an agreement to cease nuclear testing. No nation in the past has ever at tempted such a policy, but it is the experience of history that those who have tried to maintain power and wealth through force have failed miserably. Our own experience shows that the more altruistic have been our motives, the more successful have been our actions. Surely this will be even more true when our entire foreign policy is based, as it should be, firmly upon the Christian-Judean ethic.—Ed

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