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Speech by Secretary of State Dean Acheson, Exposition of American History at the Kraft Dinner
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Secretary's Exposition of American History at the
Kraft dinner, ivovember 13, 1952.
unce the shock of the disappearance of British power (in
America??) begaxx had been absorbed, a lot of things began to
: "NATIONAL SERVICE* RECORDS AND COLLER
happen and happen fast, which are not unlike what goes on in the
United Nations.
coloniles
The ruling class in the United States (?) in the middle
of the 18th century were people who combined the entrepreneur,
the aristocrat, the land owner, the employer -- all rolled into
one. He was the fellow who made this whole rough, rude country.
This man was met at every turn by restrictions imposed by the
British Government 3000 miles away, many of which restrictions
were very good and toatlly understanable from the point of view
of the British Government in London. They were not allowed to
go beyond the Alleghenies. This was wholly understandable because
the limits of the British protecting pretecting power were
finite.
For the same reasons that in some places we have
building only eight stories high -- because we don't have a fire
brigade that can put out a fire on the ninth floor - the colonists
were told they goould not go beyond the A leghenies. They would
get in Trouble with the French and that would maketrouble in London.
But this meant a restriction that they could not go into the
incredibly rich timber areas, nor into the mississipoi valley.
That restriction was irritating. The whole mercantile system was'
irritating, whereby trade had to go through the center at London
and could not take place directly between the colonies and other
trading points. Timber of the size needed for the British Navy
could not be cut, and the Americans did not care about the British
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