James Holland

At the present moment in world history, nearly every nation must choose between alternative ways of life.

The choice is too often not a free one.

One way of life is based upon the will of the majority and is distinguished by free institutions, representative government, free elections, guarantees of individual liberty, freedom of speech and religion, and freedom from political

oppression.

The second way of life is based upon the will of a minority forcibly imposed upon the majority.

It relies upon terror and oppression, a controlled press and radio, fixed elections, and the suppression of personal freedoms.

I believe that it must be the policy of the United States to support free peoples who are resisting attempted subjugation by armed minorities or by outside pressures.

I believe that we must assist free peoples to work out their destinies in their own way.

I believe that our help should be primarily through economic and financial aid, which is essential to economic stability and orderly political processes.

The world is not static, and the status quo is not sacred.

But we cannot allow changes in the status quo in violation of the Charter of the United Nations by such methods as coercion or by such subterfuges as political infiltration.

In helping free and independent nations to maintain their freedom,

the United States will be giving effect to the principles of the Charter of the United Nations.

And that, of course, was Harry S. Truman, the President of the United States, in a speech to Congress on the 12th of March, 1947.

Fine book.

Well, I just think sometimes it's, you know, what we've done for the first seven years of our existence.

Yeah.

is to look at the Second World War within the boundaries of the Second World War.

We very, very occasionally crept out of that with Japan and so on.

We did look at the war in China, didn't we?