Timetable to Disaster

In a chronological review of recent foreign policy the well-known Newsweek columnist demonstrates the bankruptcy that led to the Eisenhower Doctrine

The new “Eisenhower Doctrine’’ is a proposal to do belatedly, and under grave handicaps of his own making, what the President deliberately refused to do when the prospect of success was brightest. His proposed new policy is a confession of the bankruptcy of his previous policy. It is in one major respect a complete about-face. In the very midst of the Suez crisis he declared that he could not “conceive of military force being a good solution” to the problem. At last he is able to conceive this. But his present proposal to resort to force if need be is hedged about with so many ambiguities and restrictions that it seems likely to prove as in-effective as the policy he pursued until a few days before his January 5 message.

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In a chronological review of recent foreign policy the well-known Newsweek columnist demonstrates the bankruptcy that led to the Eisenhower Doctrine

The new “Eisenhower Doctrine’’ is a proposal to do belatedly, and under grave handicaps of his own making, what the President deliberately refused to do when the prospect of success was brightest. His proposed new policy is a confession of the bankruptcy of his previous policy. It is in one major respect a complete about-face. In the very midst of the Suez crisis he declared that he could not “conceive of military force being a good solution” to the problem. At last he is able to conceive this. But his present proposal to resort to force if need be is hedged about with so many ambiguities and restrictions that it seems likely to prove as in-effective as the policy he pursued until a few days before his January 5 message.