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Show _9- reason to anticipate for the years immediately ahead of us (of which rivalry, the uncommitted areas of the world-the emerging nations of Asia, Africa, and perhaps Latin America-will share with outer space the dubious honor of being the coveted prize of both contestants), psychological, ideological, economic and political weapons will tend to overshadow military and politico-military instruments. The Western strategy of pacts, alliances and military bases will either give way to a new strategy of accommodation, assistance and free partnership with the uncommitted peoples, or will betray, even more tellingly than it has done so far, its woeful inadequacy for meeting the challenges of the new contest. Past American obsession with the politico-military aspect of the struggle, and past American recourse to economic and technical aid as principally an auxil-liary to the program of containment of Soviet Communism through pacts and bases, will prove obsolete; and, to that extent, past American impatience with politico-military neutralism will give way to a healthier understanding of the fears and aspirations of the uncommitted peoples of the world. If, in that phase of the cold war which is now passing away, American pacto-mania had generated American neutro-phobia, the new framework of the East- West contest may bring American officialdom to lay greater stress on the roots of friendship and less stress on that one-sided version of its fruits-namely, the politico-military version-with which American officialdom has been for so long preoccupied. Nor will the effect of friendship continue to be postulated as condition for the cause, as heretofore, or the appearance of friendship confused with its reality. •k "k "k Do not these three mutations in formerly static situations suggest the possibility of a modus yivendi, if not indeed a happy working relationship, between the United States and neutralist Arab States? Just at the time when the former opportunity for the United States to pursue in the Arab World a policy of "divide-and-dominate" has ceased to obtain-for |
