Wilson and Washington continued the evidence against it accumulates, in the Congo, Viet-Nam, and a hundred other places, It is the metaphysics of imperialism,
Accept it, and the American dominion is justified: Wilson's outlook will appear simply as a more "liberal", "progressive" form of co-operation in the grand American desien than (for instance) that of the Italian or German governments, Reject it, and Wilsonism will appear as merely the most insidious form for the extension of American imperialism.
Reject it, and it will become clear that it is above all important to preserve such independence as is possible from American hegemony. For American power is not going to keep us all safe in our beds. This is merely the pious, mediocre hope of the incurable provincials Europeans have become: pickled in self-satisfaction, their dim ideas no more measure up to world realities than those of the Swiss cantons measure up to European ones. American vower, including nuclear power, has a purpose: the maintenance and extension of the American empire. It is because this is becoming more difficult that Washington requires more power, and a more coherent type of command and strategy. And it is becoming more difficult because of the sharpening conflict in the Third World. This conflict is certain to grow much worse, in the years to come: as yet, it has scarcely arrived in the American hemisphere itself. To believe that America will disarm, while engaged in a global conflict dike this, is a parochial delusion; so are the village-idiot ideas of a "socialist" Europe emerging in the shadow of American missiles (whether the missiles are to be nolished up by Americans or teams of assorted European villagers). Submission to the new American drive for Hegemony means one thing: the abdication of any chance to intervene in this enormous war, and prevent it from becoming Armageddon. Peace depends upon the controlling of American imperialism. not upon grovellins before it like so many superstitious bumpkins. It depends, therefore, upon independence of America. That is, immediately, uvnon a rejection of the Multi-Lateral Force and of the more elaborate and ambiguous substitutes for the MLF that the British government would prefer.
London December 10th,