U.S. FOREIGN POLICY

Evening Post, Volume CXL, Issue 103, 29 October 1945, Page 7

U.S. FOREIGN POLICY

BASIC PRINCIPLES

STATED BY PRESIDENT

(By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright.)

LONDON, October 28

Important reactions in the sphere of international relations are expected to follow speedily on the declaration of United States foreign policy made by President Truman in a speech at the Navy Day celebrations in New York's Central Park yesterday. The London Press pays most attention to his remarks on the atomic bomb question, but notes with interest-the reiteration of the United States intention to remain in the United Nations' World Organisation and share in the maintenance of peace, by force if necessary. Great interest, also, is taken in an announcement by the President that talks on the| atomic bomb between Great Britain, Canada, and the United

States are to begin very soon. '

The President said that even after demobilisation the United States would have the greatest navy and one of the most powerful air forces on earth. Furthermore, Congress had been asked to adopt universal training to enable the United States to mobilise a powerful army at short notice. "The United States does not seek ' one inch of power outside the right to establish the necessary bases for her own protection," he said. "However, this armed might was needed for four principal tasks.

PRESERVING PEACE

"First, in collaboration with our allies, to enforce the peace terms imposed on our enemies; secondly, to fulfil our military obligations as a member of the United Nations Organisation; thirdly, to co-operate with the other American nations to preserve the territorial integrity and political independence of the nations of the Western Hemisphere; fourthly, in this troubled and uncertain1 world oui forces must be adequate to discharge their funda-

mental mission as laid down by the. Constitution to provide for the common defence of the United States. ' ■ .

"We seek to use our military strength solely to preserve world peace, for we now know that it is the only sure way to make our owA freedom. That is\ the basis of United States foreign policy, the fundamentals of which are: —

"First, we seek no territorial expansion or selfish advantage, have no plans for aggression against any State, large or small, and have no objective which need clash with the peaceful aims of any other nation. "Secondly, we believe in the eventual return of the sovereign rights of self-government to all peoples deprived thereof by force. "Thirdly, we shall approve no territorial changes in any friendly part of the world unless they are in accord with the freely-expressed wishes of the people concerned.

CHOICE OF GOVERNMENT.

"Fourthly, all peoples prepared for-self-government should be. permitted to choose their own form of government by freely-expressed choice without interference from any foreign source.

"That is true in Europe, Asia, and Africa, as well as in the Western Hemisphere. "Fifthly, by combined co-operative action with our war allies, we, shall help the defeated enemy States to establish peaceful democratic Governments of their own free choice. We shall try to attain a 'world in which Nazism, Fascism, and military aggression cannot exist.

"Sixthly, we shall refuse to recognise any Government imposed upon any nation by the force of any foreign Power. In some cases it may be impossible to prevent the forceful imposition of such a Government,, but