“We revere and honor those who as martyrs gave their blood for freedom. But we do not ourselves incite violent revolt. Rather we encourage an evolution to freedom.” Secretary of State Dulles, in an address to the annual luncheon of the Associated Press, April 22, 1957.
From time to time it is wise to attempt a restatement of U.S. policy toward the Communist world. Especially so, because the policy is not at all understood by the public, and because if it were well understood, the government would be subjected to pressures that might compel a policy revision. I do not say that the policy is wrong; only that it could not conceivably be sold to an informed anti-Communist people.
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