At other times. and by other groups. it is expressed as a desire to remain disengaged from people whose mores and institutions are different from our own. In either context the impact of this approach would be the same. Its results would be disaster. constituting a return to medieval relationships between nations where we would sit in our castle in xenophobic solitude. moats filled and drawbridges raised. While I believe that such a retreat from our present position in the world is unlikely. attempts to impose wanton reductions in our foreign economic aid programs threaten those programs and inhibit our ability to take necessary forward steps. The need for such new action is skillfully and compellingly expressed in a recent article by Harrison Brown in the Saturday Review of Literature of June 24. 1967. entitled "The Combustibility of Humans." An honored and able scholar.
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