AMERICA AFTER MUNICH
The new phase of American foreign policy which developed out of Munich is established and defined, writes Ihc Washington correspondent of the Christian Science Monitor. The process of adjusting the machinery to it is now under way. Before Munich, the emphasis jn American foreign policy was on long range and idealistic objectives. Its scope involved all the nations of the world, and its guiding principles were those- generalised objectives of the Secretary of Slate (Mr Cordell Hull), which aimed at a world of peace and order-brought about by the assertion of international rightmindedness. Since Munich, the tempo, the emphasis and the character of the policy has changed. It is now power politics: the assertion in positive and direct action of the influence and weight of the United States toward specific and bluntly named ends. It is bold condemnation of German aggression, by name. Its weapons are such things as tariff penalties against Germany.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 23811, 18 May 1939, Page 20
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