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weapons. H we rallied the forces of mercy, human- heartedness, and morality with the vigor with which we have marshaled the dehumanized forces of destruction, what government could stand against us and face its own people, however strong its cynical suspicions and misgivings? This is not the place or the moment to spell out a new policy which would start with the com- plete renunciation of weapons of mass extermi- nation and go on to build constructive measures addressed to all those tasks which the Cold War has caused us to leave in abeyance. Fortunately, George Kennan, the only official or ex-official who has yet had the courage to admit our earlier miscalculations, has already sketched in, with some boldness, the outlines of a better policy, and his proposals might be amplified and enlarged in many directions once we had overcome our official obsession with Russia and our fixation on mass extermination as an ultimate resource. But the key to all practical proposals lies in a return to human feelings and sensitivities, to moral values, and to life-regarding procedures as controlling factors in the operation of intelli- gence. The problems our nation has tried to solve by mechanical weapons alone, operated by a detached and de-moralized mechanical intelli- gence, have proved insoluble by those means. A great Jceader would know that the time has come to reinstate the missing human factor and bring forth gencrously imaginative proposals addressed to mankind’s survival and working toward its further development.