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    "title": "U.S. Navy Report on the People-to-People Program in Morocco",
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    "ocrText": "Our Job-Making Friends for America\nThe most important job any American overseas has today is\nthat of making friends for America--to know and be a friend to\nthe millions of péople who have neither our heritage of freedom\nnor our economic opportunities.\nProbably one of the best and most important end results of the\nforward positioning of U. S. Forces in the many lands and areas\nthroughout the world is not the military action which may or may\nnot come on our watch, but the influencing of the people of that\narea to our side in the basic struggle between freedom and tyranny.\nEach of us may be the means by which the uncommitted millions,\nwho daily struggle for existence and who hope for a better future,\nlearn about us and aspire to our way of life.\nOne learns quickly overseas that these people look to us--the\nrepresentatives of the great power of the West--to show them by our\nChristian example of the good neighbor, by our tolerance and res\npect for their religion and way of life, by our help and assistance\nin broadening their horizons and opportunities, to make real their\nperceived image of all Americans.\nSimilarly, by our selfishness, bad example and intolerance, we\ndrive from us the very people we were sent to influence to our side.\nHere in Morocco--in Africa--ir the Moslem world--we have a\nrare opportunity to carry out our work of making friends for\nAmerica. Probably in no other place can so few influence so many\nfor so little and with such promising results.\nTheir attitude toward America and the West could well be in-\nfluenced by the personal conduct and the personal example of each\nof US here on duty. In no other area is the People-to-People\nprogram so important to our success and tenure in the long pull\nahead.\nTo be a man among mene to show in oneself the proper example\nof zeal, sobriety and discipline, to be sympathetic to the needs\nand problems of the host country, to respect their laws and customs\nas we expect them to respect ours, to learn their language, to\ncommunicate our interest in their problems, these are the ways of\nmaking friends for America.\nNo citizen of the Great Republic has any more important job to\ndo--nor any more important duty here.\nJ. L. COUNIHAN\n041\nPublished as an editorial in the\nPort Lyautey Log of Oct. 31, 1958"
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