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seek to check the Kremlin design, for the absence of
order among nations is becoming less and less tolerable.
This fact imposes on us, in our own interests, the res=
ponsibility of world leadership. It demands that we make
the attempt, and accept the risks inherent in it, to
bring about order and justice by means consistent with
the principles of freedom and democracy. We should limit
our requirement of the Soviet Union to its participation
with other nations on the basis of equality and respect
for the rights of others. Subject to this requirement,
we must with our allies and the former subject peoples
seek to create a world society based on the principle of
consent. Its framework cannot be inflexible. It will
consist of many national communities of great and vary-
ing abilities and resources, and hence of war potential.
The seeds of conflicts will inevitably exist or vill come
into being. To acknowledge this is only to acknowledge
the impossibility of a final solution. Not to acknowledge
it can be fatally dangerous in a world in which there are
no final solutions.
All these objectives of a free society are equally
valid and necessary in peace and war. But every considera-
tion of devotion to our fundamental values and to our
national security demands that we seek to achieve them by
the strategy of the eold war. It is only by developing
the moral and material strength of the free world that
the
1.
the
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