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Senator Thomas John Dodd has praised Mr. John Foster Dulles for his unchanging outlook and foreign policy. He said that "flexibility implies compromise and concession | TIME, March 9] ... Have we forgotten the lessons of the Hitler era, with its compromises, concessions and flexibilities?" He belabors his point too far. There is a difference between yielding to Hitler's every wish, and allowing a foreign policy to change as the world situation changes-and the world changes over six years or fourteen...
...Senator Dodd's "Stand Firm" policy against the Russians has reduced the mealy-mouthings of Fulbright to a "tale . . . full of sound and fury, signifying nothing...
...Senator Dodd displays the eloquent talents of a circus barker or a random rabble rouser-and on the floor of the U.S. Senate, and to applause. He defines flexibility as compromise, then defines flexibility as "not only without virtue," but as a vice. Not since the Spanish Inquisition has compromise been so perniciously attacked...
...Lives . . . The debate reached its argumentative climax when Foreign Relations Chairman Fulbright rose up to do battle on the point of morality. Dodd's claim that Berlin is a "moral issue," said Fulbright, "means, I take it, that political implications are secondary and that . . . evil is all that is involved. In that case I think there is no hope whatever for any kind of adjustment or compromise, and therefore we must reconcile ourselves to inevitable war ... I should like to proceed on the premise that it is possible to find some adjustment in time...
...Dodd denied that a policy based on morality means inevitable war. "All our lives we fight, most of us, for the things that are right and good. We do not give up, and we do not do violence to those who oppose. We try always to convince those who are among them. There is always hope that the Russians will change. That is the first reason for continuing negotiations...