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Show America's Destiny The United States cannot and will not destroy the Soviet Union to stop Russian expansion, nor coerce other nations into an American empire to oppose it. But we can and should play an important, indeed leading part in maintaining a strong, secure and progressive free world society in which the nations can develop in their own way. In doing this we have an invaluable aid. The Soviet system is as much a threat to the other nations as it is to us. Furthermore, by some fortunate folly the Russian leaders from time to time force the free nations to see clearly that the things they have in common are far greater than the things that drive them apart. At the end of World War II the United Nations followed the League of Nations as the second attempt to set up an international inter-national organization to maintain peace but Russian policy robbed rob-bed it of effectiveness as American isolation crippled the League. Still, the United Nations renders the valuable service of bringing together in one body the adherents of the two conflicting conflict-ing principles of world organization the free and voluntary world order and the closed and coerced world order. In so doing the United Nations maintains contact across the gap. So long as the communists believe they can influence world opinion, the United Nations will embrace both. But so long as the conflict exists, the United Nations, by itself, will be inadequate inade-quate to reinforce the bonds between the free nations. Outside of, but in harmony with, the United Nations, lies the task of strengthening and bringing together for common purpose all the nations who seek security for an environment of freedom and opportunity to develop in their own way the material, ma-terial, intellectual and spiritual interests of their people. , The purpose of this task goes far beyond a drawing to- - gether one group to oppose the ambitions of another. It is essential to preserve our civilization and to restore in some places create faith in a free society. |