1961 Zbigniew Brzezinski Briefed Foreign Relations Committ

1961 article about Brzezinski advising Foreign Relations committee to practice appeasement /"tolerance"/neutrality toward Dictatorships, Communist & Socialist countries.

The Dothan Eagle

Dothan, Alabama
03 Mar 1961, Fri \u2022 Page 4

HOLMES ALEXANDER

Neutralism Is Gospel For New Frontiersmen

WASHINGTON - Neutralism, which was practically a cuss word
under Secretary Dulles, is beginning to take on the luster of gospel in the New
Frontier. "

We need to orient ourselves a little on the word 'neutralism,'
" said Professor Gale McGee D., Wyo.) on the Senate floor earlier, this
month. "For in my judgment a united, stable, independent nationalism could
easily be a neutral Africa as well."

APPLAUSE

McGee was no sooner off his feet than another of the Democratic
Professors, Mike Mansfield of Montana, was up to commend and congratulate him.
As if that weren't enough, the Foreign Relations committee a few days later
entertained Professor Zbigniew Brzezinski, who briefed the members on a report
called "Ideology and Foreign Affairs" prepared by the Center for
International Affairs of Harvard University. This report turned out to be a
"think" piece which might have been composed by a flag sitter on an
Ivory Tower it was that lofty and cerebral. Again, the theme was neutralism. .

". . .the United States in its policy toward
underdeveloped areas, should foster the independence of these countries
without, as a general rule, seeking from them a formal commitment to the West.
. .the U. S. (should) display tolerance for governments which do not follow the
western democratic model as long as the regimes act constructively to cope with
the problems of their societies and do not subordinate themselves to the
Communist bloc."

Well, there is a great deal more of the same. We are advised
to tolerate not only antidemocratic (dictatorship) regimes, but also
anti-capitalist (socialist) regimes. The inference is that even Communist
regimes are tolerable, as in Yugoslavia, just

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