Evening star., 1950-07-05

The tert OF the address By
John Foster Dulles at the Ses-
Quicentennial Fourth OF July
celebration at Washington Mon
unaent last night folloWs::
We meet here to celebrate our
day of freedom. Our thoughts
turn back to the glorious past.
when our forebears fought despot-
ism and won liberty. We should
always keep those memories fresh.
Happily, however, we are a Nation
that lives not only on its past.
but in its present. Tonight our
thoughts are irresistibly drawn to
Korea, that young republic where
our soldiers, sailors and airmen
are again fighting for freedom.
We can say with pride that our
spirit today Is the spirit of '76
and that our living today is faith
full to the principles on which our
Nation was founded.
Our founders felt that they
were conducting a great expert
ment in human liberty. From the
beginning they were inspired by
a sense of mission. They were
consciously building not for them
selves alone but for the benefit of
all mankind.
Moral Rights Expressed.
The Declaration of Independ-
ence is expressed not in terms Of
American rights, but in terms of
the natural moral rights of all
men. It proceeds from the premise
that "all men are endowed by
their creator with certain inalien-
able rights" and the Founding
Fathers made it clear that they
were setting a pattern of freedom
for men everywhere.
Largely under the inspiration of
that example, the 10Th century
became a great period of liberal
ism, when human beings freed
themselves from the yoke of
despotism. Wherever they sought
to do so they had the support of
the United States.
We early established the Monroe
Doctrine, to warn Czarist Russia
and its allies to keep their hands
off the republics of this hemisphere
whose continuing independence,
we said, was vital to our own peace
and happiness. Toward the end
of the 10th century we enunciated
the "Open Door" policy for China,
to help the Chinese people develop
in their own way free of alien
domination. In this Goth century
we have joined in two World Wars
when the freedom of the West
was imperilled by military despot-
ism. Five years ago we signed the
United Nations Charter and there
by pledged ourselves to seek uni
versal respect for human rights
and fundamental freedoms and
the preservation Of political inde-
pendence as against violent attack.
U. S. Cannot Be Isolationist.
The history of our Nation makes
4 consistent, unfolding pattern. We
have supported human free
dom and political independence
throughout the world, both as a
matter of good morals and be-
cause we saw that our own free
dom was an integral part of total
human freedom.
The United States can never be
isolationist and it never will be
so long as we are true to our
heritage. An iSolationiSt America
would be contradiction in terms,
for America has from the begin
ming been a symbo, of the univer-
sal cause of human liberty. What
we are doing today is in keeping
with the tradition of our past.
I was in Korea only two weeks
ago and saw with my own eyes
that that republic was a land of
freedom. The people had just had
their second general election.
Eighty per cent of the eligible
voters had gone to the polls. A
majority of the representatives
elected were independent of the
party which controlled the elec-