In conversational tones but with carefully chosen words, Secretary of State Dean Acheson last week defined the new position on foreign policy that the Administration had slowlyand sadlycome around to: the U.S. is putting its hope of peace not in negotiations with the U.S.S.R. but in the old-fashioned doctrine that strength bows only to strength.
"We have seen that agreements reached with the Soviet government are useful when those agreements register facts or a situation which exists," Acheson told his news conference, "and that they are not useful when they are merely agreements which do not register the existing facts." In the...