American Foreign Policy

Press, Volume CI, Issue 29843, 8 June 1962, Page 3

American Foreign Policy

Sir,—As United States foreign policy is under severe criticism at home and abroad, I fail to see the necessity of tbject apologies to American visitors. At least we don’t wave “Yankee go home” signs and picket their base, although that may come later, who knows? The people can’t be held responsible for their Administration’s secret manoeuvres and if they listen to criticism they may then realise how unpopuplar their country is becoming. Since Roosevelt’s New Deal days, United States policy has been anti-colonial, especially the British variety, and they have spared no effort behind the scenes to reduce British influence, with disastrous results to our Commonwealth. This insistence on “neutral government” has up to the present been maintained with little success as evidenced by the spread of the Communist cancer. Could it be that Khrushchev’s threat of a socialist world State in 10 years was not an empty boast? We haven’t long to wait.—Yours, etc.. A. WILLIAMS. Amberley, June 5, 1962.