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It follows that victory over Communism is the dominant, proximate goal of American policy.

Proximate in the sense that there are more distant, more `` positive '' ends we seek, to which victory over Communism is but a means.

But dominant in the sense that every other objective, no matter how worthy intrinsically, must defer to it.

Peace is a worthy objective ; ;

but if we must choose between peace and keeping the Communists out of Berlin, then we must fight.

Freedom, in the sense of self-determination, is a worthy objective ; ;

but if granting self-determination to the Algerian rebels entails sweeping that area into the Sino-Soviet orbit, then Algerian freedom must be postponed.

Justice is a worthy objective ; ;

but if justice for Bantus entails driving the government of the Union of South Africa away from the West, then the Bantus must be prepared to carry their identification cards yet a while longer.

Prosperity is a worthy objective ; ;

but if providing higher standards of living gets in the way of producing sufficient guns to resist Communist aggression, then material sacrifices and denials will have to be made.

It may be, of course, that such objectives can be pursued consisently with a policy designed to overthrow Communism ; ;

my point is that where conflicts arise they must always be resolved in favor of achieving the indispensable condition for a tolerant world -- the absence of Soviet Communist power.