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2 That is why today, after sixteen years of effort, the great question confronting this body is whether our cherished hopes for peace and progress and freedom are to be destroyed by *kess tactics of terror and disruption -- whether contempt for the views of mankind shall raise us to the heights of the depths challenge or sink us to new degxees of despair -- whether aggression is to be rewarded with indifference, and intimidation with fear and submission -- and, above all, whether the "foul winds of war" can be leashed in time to free the cooling winds of reason.

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