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The free nations can offset the meretricious appeal of the
Communists in the material sense by assisting the underdeveloped
nations to improve their industrial, agricultural, educational, and
health practices. To be effective in preserving peace and freedom
this technical assistance must be accompanied by efforts to acquaint
the recipients with the whys and the ways of democratic living but
without imposing our particular institutional forms upon them. In
addition we must support their efforts to cain a place in the sun.
Here some may see a paradox.
It is essential that all nations measure their own national
well-being and destiny in terms of the good of the total international
family. Yet many underdeveloped countries feel a strong sense of
nationalism which seems in conflict with the interests of the world
community in which they energetically seek a place of equal status.
These two ambitions are in my judgment neither inconsistent nor
mutually nullifying. Exaggerated nationalism, and touchiness about
protocol and position, are the natural expressions of immaturity and
insecurity. The principles of psychology show that 8.3 these nations
feel secure in their own inviolable sovereignty and are recognized
as equal partners in the world community, these expressions of
immaturity will give way to the easy, unaggressive give and take of
genuine democratic life. As each nation sees its own well-being in
the good of the whole, and recognizes its own contribution to
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