Foreign Policy and the Democratic Process, by Max Beloff. 134 pp. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins Press. $3.00
Some of our widely acclaimed writers have recently expressed doubts about their compatibility, reasoning more or less as follows: Are successful foreign policy and democratic institutions mutually incompatible? In order to make and judge foreign policy one needs extensive and precise information, a dispassionate attitude, and freedom from the pressures of public opinion. Hence it should be left to the professional diplomats who in conducting it should be hampered neither by Congress nor by the people nor by any democratically controlled agency.
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