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I want to re-emphasize the same observations which
I made after the meeting of the General Assembly last autumn
and particularly my experience in Committee #3.
I think the great nations, but especially the United
States, have got to understand that there is a feeling in the
vorld of a desire to attain some kind of a better standard of
living and they feel that particularly the United States has
an obligation to make the plans and help them to carry them
out to attain those standards.
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They are a little fearful:
1. That we do not care what happens to colored
populations throughout the world.
2. That our main interest is in pover and gain
for ourselves.
3. That we are building up so much military power
that while on one hand they hope it will protect them against
the military power that they know 18 in the hands of the USSR,
on the other hand they are a little afraid of it as a weapon
which may be used to gain economic advantages.
Altogether their feelings are highly mixed about us.
They are afraid of the USSR but in some ways most of these nations
have never known freedom and therefore it is almost easier to
accept the type of totalitarian system that tells them definitely
it
what to do than/does to accept the democratic system which
seems to require so much of them.
Just to illustrate my point, Dr. Charles Malik of
Lebanon, told me he felt ve had missed a great opportunity when
the Shah of Persia was here. Ye should have had a plan ready
to clean up his government and help him to help his people and
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