Foreword.... CONTENTS Page III 1. Thucydides "The Melian Conference" (Chapter XVII of The Pelo- 2. Hume, David-"Of The Balance of Power" (1752, excerpt from Essays 3. Schelling, Thomas C.-"Deterrence: Military Diplomacy in the Nu- 4. Kennedy, President John F.-Address, University of Maine, October 6. Jackson, Senator Henry M.-"Executives, Experts and National Se- curity," Commencement Address, Foreign Service Institute Senior Seminar, Department of State, June 11, 1964_. 7. Johnson, President Lyndon B.-Remarks, 175th Anniversary Convo- cation, Georgetown University, Washington, D.C., December 3, 8. Acheson, Dean-"The American Image Will Take Care of Itself" (from The New York Times Magazine, February 28, 1965). 9. Reston, James-"Challenge to Alliance: A View of Europe's Attitudes on the Future of NATO" (from The New York Times, Apr. 12, 1965)- 2. The Truman Doctrine (Special Presidential Message to the Congress on Greece and Turkey, March 12, 1947). 3. The Marshall Plan (Address, Secretary of State George C. Marshall, V 4. Inter-American Treaty of Reciprocal Assistance (RIO Treaty), 5. North Atlantic Treaty (NATO), April 4, 1949 (text)-- 6. United States-Australia-New Zealand Security Treaty (ANZUS) 7. United States-Japan Security Treaty, September 8, 1951 (text)------- 8. Southeast Asia Collective Defense Treaty (SEATO), September 8, 1954 9. Pact of Mutual Cooperation Between Iraq and Turkey (Baghdad Pact-CENTO), February 24, 1955; U.S. Agreements of Coopera- tion with Turkey, Iran, Pakistan, March 5, 1959 (texts) __ Authorizing the President to Employ the Armed Forces of the United States for Protecting the Security of Formosa, the Pescadores and Related Positions and Territories of that Area [Chapter XVII of The Peloponnesian War by Thucydides, the Crawley Transla tion, Modern Library, 1951] THE MELIAN CONFERENCE By Thucydides (5th Century B.C.) The next summer1 Alcibiades sailed with twenty ships to Argos and seized the suspected persons still left of the Lacedæmonian faction to the number of three hundred, whom the Athenians forthwith lodged in the neighbouring islands of their empire. The Athenians also made an expedition against the isle of Melos with thirty ships of their own, six Chian, and two Lesbian vessels, sixteen hundred heavy infantry, three hundred archers, and twenty mounted archers from Athens, and about fifteen hundred heavy infantry from the allies and the islanders. The Melians are a colony of Lacedæmon that would not submit to the Athenians like the other islanders, and at first remained neutral and took no part in the struggle, but afterwards upon the Athenians using violence and plundering their territory, assumed an attitude of open hostility. Cleomedes, son of Lycomedes, and Tisias, son of Tisimachus, the generals, encamping in their territory with the above armament, before doing any harm to their land, sent envoys to negotiate. These the Melians did not bring before the people, but bade them state the object of their mission to the magistrates and the few; upon which the Athenian envoys spoke as follows: Athenians. Since the negotiations are not to go on before the people, in order that we may not be able to speak straight on without interruption, and deceive the ears of the multitude by seductive arguments which would pass without refutation (for we know that this is the meaning of our being brought before the few), what if you who sit there were to pursue a method more cautious still! Make no set speech yourselves, but take us up at whatever you do not like, and settle that before going any farther. And first tell us if this proposition of ours suits you.' The Melian commissioners answered: Melians. To the fairness of quietly instructing each other as you propose there is nothing to object; but your military preparations are too far advanced to agree with what you say, as we see you are come to be judges in your own cause, and that all we can reasonably expect from this negotiation is war, if we prove to have right on our side and refuse to submit, and in the contrary case, slavery.' Athenians. If you have met to reason about presentiments of the future, or for anything else than to consult for the safety of your state upon the facts that you see before you, we will give over; otherwise we will go on.' 1 This was the sixteenth year [416 B.C.] of the war between Athens and Lacedæmon (Sparta). 3 |