Word: foreign
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Unable to see the forest for the trees. unwilling to see the forest for the trees. We have here the weakness of America's foreign policy since...
...fail to see the political factor in the situation, the people who think in terms of the immediate politics of the case fail to perceive the higher level of policy. They fail to see not only the world-wide implications of aid to Tito, but also the pastern of foreign policy which it fits altogether too well. They pay too much attention to the trees...
...fatal weakness of American foreign policy is the practice of mere anti-communism (or anti-Russianism, if you prefer). We supported Chiang's Knominatang government in China not because we like Chiang, nor because we wanted to back a winner, but because he was staunchly anti-communist. It would have taken diplomatic courage to have shifted to the Chinese Communists when we had a chance; or to have moved fast and incisively to construct a government out of the few "liberals" in the country at the time. But we couldn't possibly have gotten into a worse mess than...
...other hand, Point Four's protagonists state, the program need not entail domination of foreign peoples and would be a positive action against any advance of communism into these areas. It would show, they say, that nations can find means of taking care of their needs without giving up their freedoms, and would win many friends...
...Administration's bill got a cool reception in the Committee, and will have more tough going on the floor of the House and Senate. Congress must now decide whether Point Four is economically and politically unsound or whether, as Representative Javits of New York said, it is "top flight foreign policy thinking--a real American answer to Communism...