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...United States must ultimately use power to back up its foreign policy, Sir John C. Slessor, Marshal of the Royal Air Force, declared yesterday...
...open meeting of the Defense Studies Program, Slessor said, "Unless the United States can find some way to bring her power to bear throughout the world, she will lose her place as leader of the West...
...Slessor stressed that direct power should only be applied after all economic and moral pressures have failed to accompish a given policy...
...British air commander criticized any policy based strictly on moral grounds as very dangerous. A simple moralistic foreign policy, according to Slessor, "just doesn't have enough flexibility...
Talking about the present crisis in the Middle East, which "could explode at any time," Slessor said President Eisenhower had given Israel a "promissory note." He felt that either the U.S. must "face up to this responsibility" to guarantee the rights of Israel, or she will lose great prestige among the Arab nations and around the world. Slessor also noted that "the Suez and the oil it carries is absolutely vital to the European economy...