The Challenge to American Foreign Policy

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In this brief and incisive book the recent American High Commissioner for Western Germany presents a penetrating discussion of the formidable problems confronting American diplomacy today.

Against the political offensives of the USSR we must hold the free world together not by military strength and military planning alone. John McCloy says that our future rests rather on the statesmanship, initiative, and political acumen of our foreign officers and the work of civilian planners in the Department of State. McCloy deplores the fact that in recent years the military has acquired a commanding voice in matters of national policy.