U.S.A. ATTITUDE TO EUROPE

Grey River Argus, 29 January 1946, Page 5

U.S.A. ATTITUDE TO EUROPE

NEEDY FOR DEFINITION Foreign Policy Association OFFERS A PROGRAMME. QUESTION OF SOVIET’S OBJECTIVES. (Rec. 9.15). WASHINGTON, Jan. 27. The American Foreign Policy Association has made a statement of its views on the existing' situation in Europe and of the United States relation thereto. It says: “At no time has the United States found it possible or desirable to remain indifferent to European developments. The Foreign Policy Association offers an eight-point American foreign policy programme. The Association also urges that President Truman should state that the United States would participate in the control of Germany as long as it would be necessary.” The Association further said: “What has been most difficult for Britain and the United States to accept is the idea that Russia has become a world power and that Russia intends to play that role exactly as the two other partners in the Big Three. “Our foreign policy recommendations are:— “(1) The United States should consider every practicable measure to aid Britain to recover from the war. “(2) The United States should not underwrite any colonial comitments of Britain or of other European coun tries possessing overseas colonies, but should share the responsibility for whatever reforms it proposes in colonial administration, and should recognise that colonies are tangible assets, which it cannot ask other countries to abandon without some form of compensation. “(3) The United States should support forces of social democracy in Europe and the liberated countries; also in Italy and Germany. “(4) The United States should propose to Britain and Russia a programme of joint economic aid to the liberated countries, which could create a practical foundation for those institutions which the Western Powers regard as democratic. “(5) The United States should officially clarify its long-term plans regarding Germany. “(6) Only when the United States has officially demonstrated an intention to participate in the control of Germany as long as it may prove necessary, will it prove practicable to formulate a workable economic programme for Germany. “(7) No measure to disarm Germany or to de-Nazify the Germans will avail unless the United States and her war-time Allies strengthen their own position, by;. orderly reforms at home, and by genuine collaboration, through the United Nations, on matters that are susceptible of creating international conflicts. “(8) Only when the United States lias clarified its own policy towards Europe will it be able legitimately to question Russia’s policy, and to propose constructive alternatives to the Soviet’s actual or assumed objectives on the Continent.”