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REt COUNTERORIENTATION WEEK Pies We have called it making the world safe for democracy, a fine phrase. Or keeping, or saving the free world, defending the free world. We have more recently called it anti-Communism. This has justified most of our expansion into Asia in the post- World War II era. So we've called it by all sorts of names and probably the one, the one (unintelligible) that has been the most persistent in our attempt to hide the facts of our expansionism was the phrase popularized at the turn of the century but actually in currency earlier, as the "open door policy." We were somehow opening all the doors, were keeping all the doors of the world open except in our own back yard, of course, where we had the Monroe Doctrine, which closed all the doors of the people. But in other parts of the world where we couldn't because of our military posture there, we couldn't carve out for ourselves a particular fi sphere of influence like some of the other western nations. Then ; www we were urging upon these nations the open door policy, which was : a fairly successful policy considering it was based on policies, the position that we had militarily in that area. And this, this particular phrase, the open door, amazingly persists. OF Ee RMA RE Re eee tA TR ETI Se . ip & 136 yo eg er ee poi pe SRN err Ree en OF