Evening star., 1960-01-07
Common Goal Seeks
Brighter Opportunity

We seek a common GOAL
brighter opportunity for our
own citizens and a world peace
with justice for all.
. Before us and our friends is
the challenge of an ideology
which, for more than four dec
adeS, has trumpeted abroad its
purpose Of gaining ultimate VIC
tory over all forms of govern
ment at variance with its own.
We realize that however
much we repudiate the tenets
OF imperialistic communism. it
represents a gigantic enter
prise, grimly pursued by leaders
who compel its subjects to sub
ordinate their freedom of action
and spirit and personal desires
for some hoped-for advantage
in the future./
The COMMUNISTS can present
an array of material accom-
pilshmentS over the past IS
years that lends a false per-
sllasiveneSS to many of their
gllttering promises to the un-
committed peoples.
The competition they pro-
vide is formidable.
But in our scale of values
we place freedom first-our
whole national existence and
development have been geared
to that basic concept and are
responsible for the position of
free world leadership to which
we have succeeded.
1t is the highest prize that
any nation can possess; it is
one that communism can never
offer. And Americas record
OF material accomplishment in
freedom is written not only in
the unparalleled prosperity of
our own Nation, but in the
many billions we have devoted
TO the reconstruction of free
world economies wrecked by
World War II and in the effec-
tive help of many more billions
we have given in saving the
independence of many others.
threatened by outside domina-
ton.
ASsuredly we have the ca
pacity for handling the prob
lens in the new era of the
worlds history we are now en-
tering.
But we must see that capac-
ity intelligently and tirelessly.
regardless of personal sacrific,
The f1SSure that divides our
political planet is deep and
wide.
We live, moreover, in a sea
OF semantic disorder in which
old labels no longer faithfully
describe.
Police states are called
peoples democracies."
Armed conquest of free
people is called liberation"
Such slippery slogans make
more difficult the problem of
communicating true faith,
facts and beliefs.
We must make clear our
peaceful intentions, our aspira-
tionS for a better world. So
doing, we must use language
to enlighten the mind, not as
the instrument of the studied
innuendo and distorter of truth.
And we must live by what
we say.
On my recent visit to dis
tant lands I found one states
man after another eager to
tell me of the elements of their
government that had been bor-
Irowed from our American Con-
Stitution, and from the inde-
Structible ideals set forth in
our Declaration of Independ-
ence.
! AS a nation we take pride
that our constitutional sys-
TEN, and the ideals which Sus-
tain it, have been long viewed
as a fountainhead of freedom.
BY our every action we must
strive to make ourselves worthy
of this trust, ever mindful that
an accumulation of seemingly
minor encNpachmentS upon
freedom gradually could break
down the entire fabric of a free
society.
So persuaded, we shall get
on with the task before us.
So dedicated. and with faith
in the Almighty, humanity
shall one day achieve the unity
in freedom to which all men
IhaVe aspired from the dawn OF