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July 12, 1957

# SUBPANEL I - U. S. INTERNATIONAL OBJECTIVES AND STRATEGY

## I. THE AMERICAN NATIONAL PURPOSE IN THE WORLD ENVIRONMENT

### A. The American Affirmation

This report is written by Americans for Americans and from the American point of view. It seeks to find the place and objectives of Americans in a world environment which is undergoing radical change. Such an inquiry must start from the objectives of Americans at home. But this position cannot be surmised and these objectives cannot be derived unless we can all refer to a framework of accepted basic values. Fortunately, our past provides such a framework.

The elegance and economy of words in certain of our great public documents make it possible to state our generally agreed national purposes briefly and simply. If these seem trite, this is a modern difficulty; for the words which may have lost their strength through being taken for granted are loaded with 2500 years of political discussion, conflict, and trial and error in the search for a tolerable relation between governors and governed and between nations.

The principles on which our institutions are based were not new when they were enunciated. They grew out of centuries of religious and philosophical reflection about the nature of man, the concept of his dignity and his relationship to forces transcending him. In their particular form they were the product of the age of enlightenment, having been stated by English and French

of the age of enlightenment, having been stated by English and French
shift to forces transcending him. If their particular form they were the product
reflection about the nature of man, the constitution of his dignity and his relation
they were enumerated. That the work of consumers of religious and philosophical
The principles on which our institutions are based were not new when
between nations.

in the aspect for a tolerable relation between states and governed and
loaded with 2000 years of political discussion, conflict, and trust and error
works which may prove lost their strength through being taken for granted as
purely and simply. If these seem true, this is a modern difficulty: for the
documents make it possible to state am generally agreed national purposes
The elegance and economy of words in certain of our best public

a framework.

In framework of accepted basic values, 'formimately' our best provides such
summoned and these objectives cannot be derived unless we can all refer to a
start from the objectives of Americans at home, but this position cannot be
world environment which is undergoing radical change. Such an industry must
point of view. It seeks to find the place and objectives of Americans in a
This report is written by Americans for Americans and from the American

## A. The American Affirmation

### B. THE AMERICAN NATIONAL PURPOSE IN THE WORLD ENVIRONMENT

#### C. AMERICAN OBJECTIVES AND STRATEGY

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philosophers of the 18th century in almost the same words as those of our
Declaration of Independence and our Constitution, which follow:

"We hold these truths to be self evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness. That to ensure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed." ....

"We, the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect Union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity ...."

Neither discussion nor trial and error is finished 150 years later; we are not at a culmination, resting at the top of the mountain, we are travelers still. In 1945 when new nation after new nation wrote their constitutions, they too found inspiration and guidance in many of the points enunciated some 170 years ago.

And as the nations of the world, sobered and chastened by the horrors of World War II, met in San Francisco, they affirmed similar purposes when