SOURCE: "Morals and Power," in The Puritan Ethic in United States Foreign Policy, edited by David L. Larson, D. Van Nostrand Company, Inc., 1966, pp. 139-44.

In the following essay, originally delivered as an address before the National War College at Washington in 1953, Dulles outlines the mechanisms of Soviet power and ideology, which, he contends, may be defeated by the "supremacy of moral law."

Since I have been secretary of state, I have been to Europe, the Near East, and South Asia. Before that, in connection with negotiating the Japanese peace treaty, I had an excellent chance to get a firsthand look at our foreign representatives in Japan, Korea, and other parts of the Far East.

One of the things that most impressed me in these areas was the down-to-earth cooperation which existed between our civilian and military officials. The North Atlantic Treaty Organization is an outstanding example of...