Eight programmes on the American point of view about various aspects of domestic and foreign policy
Introduced by PROFESSOR H. C. ALLEN
Commonwealth Fund Professor of American History at University College, London
8: America and the Outside World
The United States' dilemma in Latin America is very much the same as her dilemma in South-East Asia: whilst democratic governments do not exist, she believes that she can only prevent the spread of communism by military action. Although this has encouraged a certain inflexibility in American attitudes to the outside world, there is now a greater willingness than at any time since 1945 to criticise the Administration's foreign policy.
Produced by Howard Smith