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cooperative relations among nations.

If the politics of ideological confrontation and
strident nationalism become pervasive, broad humane
international agreement will grow ever more elusive
and
unilateral actions will dominate.
those nations that can agree will do so on a more limited
scale; in the absence of any agreement, nations will defend
their rights unilaterally as they have in the past. In an environment
of widening chaos the stronger will survive, and may even
temporarily But and
prosper and the weaker will despair. But the human spirit
will suffer.

The American people have always had a higher hope --
that the modern community of nations will discover the
capacity to act according to man's more noble aspirations.

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As Felix Frankfurter said, "fragile as reason is and limited as law is as the institutionalized expression of reason, it is often all that stands between us and the tyranny of will, the cruelty of unbridled, unprincipled, undisciplined feeling."

The principles and procedures of the Anglo-American legal system have proven their moral and practical worth. They have promoted our national progress and brought its benefits to more citizens more equitably than in any society in the history of man. They are a heritage and a trust which we all not only lawyers but hold in common. And their greatest contribution to human progress may well

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lie ahead of us in the future. The opportunity now
exists to combine legal development and political
achievement, in building a new international order
that eliminates the scourge of war and institutionalizes
the hopes for common progress.

The philosopher Kant saw law and freedom, moral
principle and practical necessity, as parts of the same
reality. He considered law as the inescapable guide to
political action. He believed that sooner or later
the realities of human interdependence would compel
the fulfillment of the imperatives of human aspiration.

We have reached that point in time where moral and

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practical imperatives, law and pragmatism point toward
the same goals. The foreign policy of the United States
must reflect the ideals of the American people. It is no
accident that a dedication to international law has always
been a central feature of our foreign policy. And so it
is today, inescapably as for the first time in history we
have the opportunity and the duty to build a true world
community.

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DEPARTMENT OF STATE

Washington, D.C. 20520

August 8, 1975

MEMORANDUM

TO : S - Mr. Alvin Adams

FROM: EUR/CAN - John H. Rouse Jr.

SUBJ: Secretary's ABA Speech in Montreal

EUR believes that the Secretary should make some appreciation to the Government of Canada for its role as host to the ABA Conference in his speech to the ABA. We submitted the attached proposed remarks to S/P to cover this need. S/P advised us that the remarks would be made available to the Secretary should he wish to use them, and we agreed they should not be part of the formal text of his address.

I am sending you this copy so that you will be aware of the situation and have these remarks available should the Secretary decide to make some reference to the Government of Canada.

Attachment:

Proposed remarks