During the decade of the Tentative ‘Fifties the course of events has thrust a number of basic issues into the forum of public argument. One of them goes under the rabric, “morality and public policy.“ Chiefly in question is foreign policy.

My introduction to the state of the problem took place at the outset of the decade in a conversation with a distinguished journalist who is now dead. In public affairs he was immensely knowledgeable; he was also greatly puzzled over die new issue that was being raised. His first question revealed the source of his puzzlement. What, he asked, has the Sermon on the Mount got to do with foreign policy? I was not a little taken aback by this statement on the issue.