The position of the United States throughout the review period was also that the free-world embargo on strategic goods to Communist China--an embargo much more sweeping than that applying to the European bloc--should be maintained. Other free governments took the same position, and the embargo continued in force. Such relaxations as took place in controls were changes that did not affect the multilateral embargo. One example was the change in the control of antibiotics and sulfonamides. The nations which carry on trade with Communist China had been controlling those drugs, while hostilities continued in Korea, by limiting the quantities shipped; the quotas assumed by the various nations were scheduled to expire on December 31, 1953, and were permitted to expire on schedule. Another example was the relaxation by Japan on certain items that had been under embargo by that country--but these were items that the other countries were not embargoing. The same was true of the United Kingdom's decision to permit the shipment of light passenger automobiles. Though the policies of other major free governments regarding trade with Communist China have not been identical with our own, the United States has not attempted--and will not attempt--to bring about conformity through coercion. This is true of all of our relations with other countries, not merely our relations with them on the issue of Communist China. Leaders of this Government forcefully reaffirmed that principle during the period we are reviewing. Secretary of State John Foster Dulles said in a statement on December 1: "The tide of events has made our Nation more powerful but I believe that it should not make us less loyal to our great American traditions; and that it should not blur our dedication to the truths, expressed in our Declaration of Independence, that we owe a respect to the opinions of others. "Today it is to our interest to assist certain countries. But that does not give us the right to try to take them over, to dictate their trade policies and to make them our satellites. "Indeed, we do not want weak or subservient allies. Our friends and allies are dependable just because they are unwilling to be anyone's satellites. They will freely sacrifice much in a common effort. But they will no more be subservient to the United States than they will be subservient to Soviet Russia. "Let us be thankful that they are that way, and that there still survives so much rugged determination to be free." On December 2, President Eisenhower endorsed the declaration of the Secretary of State and said this: