ABSTRACT
America’s military and economic dominance over the non-Communist nations failed to make possible the foreign policies that were visualized in the fondest dreams of the anti-containment anti-Communists. In Moscow, the ambassador from Burma, who was not considered pro-American, told Chip Bohlen that the President’s speech was in the “best tradition of the Founding Fathers of the United States”; and Bohlen found “a favorable reaction” from most of the diplomatic corps in the Russian capital. The Indian ambassador to Egypt told American envoy Jefferson Caffery that the President’s speech was wonderful and that it could have been made by no other living man. The state of American public opinion toward the Russians in particular and communism in general and especially the powerful influence of the Republican party’s right wing made any substantive concessions by the Eisenhower-Dulles team politically most hazardous.
