Historical Answer

Defenders of the Truman Doctrine were also busy last week. In the Security Council, Warren Austin gave a soft answer to decriers' wrathful charges that the doctrine bypassed U.N. (see INTERNATIONAL).*

But in Washington a man under no diplomatic restrictions gave a more candid answer. The man was Dr. Edmund Walsh, founder of Georgetown University's famed School of Foreign Service, consultant to the U.S. Army on geopolitics, lecturer at the General Staff School, consultant at the Nuernberg trials, specialist in Russian history. Said Jesuit Father Walsh:

Czar to Commissar. "Just as the warnings of James Monroe were directed emphatically against the territorial encroachments of Imperial Russia on the North American continent, so ... the non-colonization of new areas by Communist aggression is now declared to be a cardinal principle of American foreign policy. . . .

"It was a question of immediate response to an impelling urgency or else progressive surrender to the calculated advance of World Communism. If nothing had been done, the conquest of Europe by Communism would have been immeasurably advanced. . . .

"It is not probable that Russia will reply with any warlike attitude. She is in no position to challenge the power of the United States at this time. She will bide her time. She will wait until she is in possession of actual manufactured atomic bombs and until the Communist Parties have infiltrated further into the defense installations and the general populations of North and South America."

Blessings of the Dollar. "The action of the President does not imply either weakening or usurping the authority of the United Nations. A fire had broken out while the fire department of a new community existed only as a paper project. The measures advocated by the President were the means most urgently needed. If the dollar can be used ... to improve the lot of the citizens of Greece and Turkey then the boon will be a domestic blessing.

"And no beneficiary need fear that one square mile of his territory will be annexed, no alien secret police will stalk him by day and by night, no occupying army will consume his meagre food, no convoys of prisoners will be deported to Siberia. . . .

"The Truman Doctrine was something more than lip-service to the ideals of the brotherhood of man."

* This week Senator Vandenberg proposed that the U.S. agree to end its aid to Greece and Turkey if requested to by a majority of the Security Council or the General Assembly.

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