A569 A570 CON However. there is nothing in this proposed authorization that encourages any hope for a settlement of the fundamental conflicts in the region. It echoes the policy enunciated by Secretary Dulles in 1953. when he said: "The United States can usefully help strengthen the interrelated defenses of those countries which want strength. not as against each other or the West. but to resist the common threat to all free peoples." Indeed. the Presidents message. like Secretary Dulles 1953 pronouncement. appears to regard the problems of the Middle East as separable. with the Communist threat best handled directly by the United States alone. while all the other. equally basic problems are to be resolved by the United Nations. It is obvious that no piecemeal approach will solve the problems of the Arab war against Israel. the Arab boycott. the blockade of the Suez and the Gulf of Aqaba. the resettlement of Arab refugees and the development of economic and natural resources. Yet these are the problems with which the United Nations has been grappling unsuccessfully since 1948. and which it lacks the power to solve. These are the problems that cry out most urgently for bold American leadership and initiative.
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