Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1962-01-25
The Common Marker
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closer to Europe in our own self-interest.
we are Europeans and we are so considered
by the Southern Hemisphere. We are also
North Americans with genius of our own.
We invented mass production and showed
Europe that the various nationalties i'm time
can abide each other and live together com.
fOrtably In common good. We picked up the
torch of Western Civilization when Europe
faltered, because all of our institutions and
traditions are European; we have refined
them and extended them. We have common
cause and common aspiration with Europe.
The preceding three articles were written
leading to this one. There is steady but
growing bewilderment and resentment in
Europe toward our policies for the subconti.
nents and the U.N. which 1 have tried to re-
port. We cannot continue to sabotage our
natural allies and kim Equality is Western
principle, but of late our spokesman give the
notion that Asia and Africa are more equal!
When this administration was seeking
election there was much public handwriting
and foaming at the mouth about our loss of
prestige. Does anyone suppose that our pres.
dge is enhanced by building dams in piddling
territories at war within themselves and
which will be for generations. and who serve
US ultimatums? Is it supposed that national
prestige is enhanced by sending our world
savers and bureaucrats to find projects to in.
volve us at the same time gratuitously hoping
these Will rebound to our favor? If the Dutch
and Australians can develop New Guinea. for
example, then we should join them to protect
the territory. We cannot continue to sustain.
apologize for and promote the buffonery ema-
natlng from Africa the Middle East and
Southeast Asia. We are rapidly losing pres.
uge where we once had it and must have it
IN Europe We are certainly gaining none to
offset the loss. There is profound disgust
with our Congo policies for instance II our
friends are in Elizabethville then they are not
In Leopoldville or Stanleyville nor are they
IN Accra or Cairo or Diakarta or Havana
In few years the Common Market will
be competing vigorously with us for raw
materials Heretofore their sources have been
Asia and Africa, but we have been persistent
~ aoetting the attempt to discredt them and
drive them out. If our dunderheads now in
Office 90 not consider the near future we NAV
soon IND ourselves in a fierce trade war for
primary goods in Latin America. The Latin
ALREADY is more prone to do business with
European firms if he can We can only hold
the line with such gimmicks as the Alliance
Tor Progress. What happens to our economy
when Europe is able to outbid us. and we have
forced them to do so if our unbelievable poll.
cies prevail?
The real Parliament of Nations is aborn.
ing in Europe. One day we must extend our
association with this new agency. Here is
Where our self-interest lies. What tragedy
IL we so ALLEVIATE ourselves that in time of
need we must turn to savages. gangsters and
naive clerks for support win our popularity.
conscious administration ever grasp that we
are not in Hollywood box-office contest? A
vote does not carry with It the essential power
or vitality to perform beyond the vote. Nor
Is vote necessarily the measure of the
voters understanding. Therefore, winning
votes, which seems to be our all consuming
objective in the UN., may prove the most
hollow of all our victories.