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basis for world order and world understanding. They benefit no
nation at the expense of other nations but instead benefit all mankind.
As Shakespeare said:
A peace is of a nature of a conquest.
For then both parties nobly are subdued,
And neither party loses.
Let us be clear that the idea of the common interests of humanity
applies as yet to only a restricted range of questions. Pursuit of
these common interests will not solve most of the hard problems which
torment our world. Such pursuit will not liquidate the remaining
issues of colonialism, nor will it end the ordeal of the developing
nations. It will not halt the Chinese adventurism in the Far East,
now pressing so hard on Viet-nam, on Laos, on India. It will not
normalize Berlin or free Cuba.
Above all, it will not banish the profound difference between
those who see the world's future as monolithic and those who see it
as diverse -- the contest between those who dogmatically insist that
the world must move through predetermined stages to a single pre-
determined destination, and those who see an evolving world community
founded on a wide variety of economic systems, political creeds and
philosophic faiths. We who believe in liberty and democracy have no
reason to suppose that those who believe in communism are any less
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