NO FRIENDS, NO ENEMIES, JUST INTERESTS

Jesse Jones's Houston CHRONICLE:

IT is high time the United States quit throwing money and materials around the world like a drunken sailor and settled on a foreign policy clearly consonant with our national interests first and foremost. We pile deficit on deficit until we threaten ourselves with bankruptcy.

The British still operate on the maxim of one of their great statesmen that England has no friends, no enemies, but only interests. Would that this country had statesmen who possessed a similar regard for our own.

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Columnist SIMEON STYLITES (Halford E. Luccock), in the Protestant weekly CHRISTIAN CENTURY:

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