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Thursday, August 30, 2007
JFK: Spokesman for the New Century
Burdened with the tensions of the cold war and plagued with the residue of terror from the McCarthy Era as well, Kennedy and the Democrats chose to answer intimidation by bravely publishing the following plank in the Democratic platform of 1960:
THE UNITED NATIONS
TO ALL OUR FELLOW MEMBERS OF THE UNITED NATIONS, We shall strengthen our commitments to this, our great continuing institution for conciliation and the growth of a world community. Through the machinery of the United Nations, we shall work for disarmament,the establishment of an international police force, the strengthening of the World Court, and the establshment of world law.
We shall propose the bolder and more effective use of the specialized agencies to promote the world's economic and social development.
Great Democratic Pesidents have taken the lead in the effort to unite the nations of the world in an international organization to assure world peace wth justice under law.
The League of Nations, conceived by Woodrow Wilson, was doomed by Republican defeat of United States participation.
The United Nations, sponsored by Franklin Roosevelt, has become the place where representatives of the rival systems and interests which divide the world can and do maintain continuous contact.
The United States adherence to the World Court contains a so-called "self-judging reservation" which, in effect permits us to prevent a Court decision in any particular case in which we are involved. The Democratic Party proposes its repeal.
To all these endeavors so essential to world peace, we, the members of the Democratic Party, will bring a new urgency persistence and determination, born of the conviction that in our thermonuclear century all of the other Rights of Man hinge on our ability to assure man's right to peace.
THE UNITED NATIONS
TO ALL OUR FELLOW MEMBERS OF THE UNITED NATIONS, We shall strengthen our commitments to this, our great continuing institution for conciliation and the growth of a world community. Through the machinery of the United Nations, we shall work for disarmament,the establishment of an international police force, the strengthening of the World Court, and the establshment of world law.
We shall propose the bolder and more effective use of the specialized agencies to promote the world's economic and social development.
Great Democratic Pesidents have taken the lead in the effort to unite the nations of the world in an international organization to assure world peace wth justice under law.
The League of Nations, conceived by Woodrow Wilson, was doomed by Republican defeat of United States participation.
The United Nations, sponsored by Franklin Roosevelt, has become the place where representatives of the rival systems and interests which divide the world can and do maintain continuous contact.
The United States adherence to the World Court contains a so-called "self-judging reservation" which, in effect permits us to prevent a Court decision in any particular case in which we are involved. The Democratic Party proposes its repeal.
To all these endeavors so essential to world peace, we, the members of the Democratic Party, will bring a new urgency persistence and determination, born of the conviction that in our thermonuclear century all of the other Rights of Man hinge on our ability to assure man's right to peace.
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