ABSTRACT
The sense that none of allies, and particularly her European allies, is taking any significant part in maintaining the world order could help to extend the new isolationist mood in the USA. The strength and character of the international order will be judged by how it responds to challenges. British security depends on the general character of the world order: and the Western powers, a led by the Americans, are in a position to secure reasonable standards of international conduct. The notion that British security is European security and that Britain's overseas efforts have been a kind of an extended aid programme is a simple but dangerous error. Commonwealth trading arrangements are a partial sector of the free-trading world economy which all secular forces say should come but which the folly of the continentalists,-American, European, African and other-may yet block.
