Abstract

What Keeps Them Apart?

The article analyzes the hypothesis that foreign affairs and foreign policy should and could be separated from domestic affairs and domestic politics. Under the wise leadership of the U.S. President Eleanor Anna Roosevelt and Secretary of States Cordell Hull the United Nations organization was successfully established on a non-partisan basis. In general it is impossible to separate foreign. affairs from domestic, and it becomes increasingly so as the issues in foreign affairs involve economic considerations. Two factors influencing Soviet-American relations do not always receive the attention they deserve. One is that the concept of friendly relations among nations which is basic to ordinary diplomatic procedure is apparently entirely lacking in Soviet thought and action. The other factor is the extreme difficulty which the Soviet Union and the United States have in even understanding each other.