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Whatever Happened to the State Department?
Tait, Charles W. | September 13, 1965 issue

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In the first half of 1965 three events gave evidence of a dangerous new turn in American foreign policy. Common to all three moves is an open reliance on military force. It is no longer a simple question of whether military men are making decisions that they are not qualified to make, and are supposedly forbidden to make under the tradition of the United States Government. As the United States role in world affairs expanded rapidly after 1941, the U.S. State Department and the Foreign Service failed to expand correspondingly in power and influence. The basic reason was the involvement, when it came, was overwhelmingly military, but continuing hostility and suspicion in the U.S. Congress played its full part.

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POWER (Social sciences); INFLUENCE (Psychology); UNITED States. Dept. of State; UNITED States -- Armed Forces; DECISION making; INTERNATIONAL relations; UNITED States -- Politics & government; UNITED States. Congress; UNITED States
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