The Policy That Failed.

INTERNATIONAL relations; BOOKS & reading; DREAM & Reality (Book); WHAT'S Wrong With US Foreign Policy (Book); TRAGEDY of American Diplomacy, The (Book); WORLD War II; DIPLOMACY; HALLE, Louis J.; SULZBERGER, C. L.; WILLIAMS, William Appleman, 1921-1990

This article presents several books on the foreign policy of the U.S. Some of the books are "Dream and Reality," by Louis J. Halle; "What's Wrong With U.S. Foreign Policy," by C.L. Sulzberger and "The Tragedy of American Diplomacy," by William Appleman Williams. These books are a past-mortem on the U.S. foreign policy, and perhaps go rather too far in condemning the whole basis of the Acheson-Bevin line. The real complaint against American policy that runs through all these books is that since the World War II, the U.S. has adopted a single, unchanging attitude toward all the extraordinarily varied political phenomena of the period. That attitude, borrowed from the war period, is one of hatred for the enemy.