THE AMERICAN 15c . FEBRUARY 1962 MAGAZINE There is a rank due to the United States among nations which will be withheld, if not absolutely lost, by the reputation of weakness; if THE RED WALL we desire to avoid insult, we BY JAMES WAKEFIELD BURKE must be able to repel it; if we PAGE 12 desire to secure peace , . , it must be known that we are at all times ready for war." GEORGE WASHINGTON, Fifth Annual Address to Congress, Philadelphia, Pa., Dec. S, 1793 An African Alamo ''What constitutes the bulwark of our own BY liberty and independence? It is not our BRIG. GEN. FRANK L. HOWLEY (Ret.) PAGE 18 frowning battlements, our bristling sea coasts .... Our reliance is in the love of liberty which God has planted in u^. Ttff BIG fSSUE Our defense is in the preservation Should the United States take direct unilateral action of the spirit which prizes liberty to halt communist penetration as the heritage of alt men, in of Latin America? all lands everywhere." PRO CON Rep. BOB WILSON Rep. 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