Word: conflicts
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...Rivals. From the moment they took their seats, the Africans proclaimed that they were their own men, and nobody else's. One after another, they echoed the neutralist declaration of Togo's Premier Sylvanus Olympio: "Our purpose is not to be drawn into the conflict between the great powers...
...desire is not briefly to defer our own destruction, but to work for an enobled human life, we call for a deep-rooted, immediate and total break with the policy of military deterrence. We must rennounce uncomprimisingly the organization for mass violence as a final arbiter of international conflict. The continued existence of these devices for killing populations leaves us exposed to the danger that they will be used in time of crisis regardless of previous resolve; therefore we must prevent their continued manufacture and posession. We know full well that the possible consequences of such radical action include invasion...
...must think of meaningful employment for those Americans who have been heavily dependent for incentive upon military competition with the Communists. The reliance upon military deterrence, far from effectively countering Communism, has turned our attention from these problems, and the vaster problems of adequate policies to deal with world conflict. Plainly, our attitude immobilizes those elements within the Iron Curtain countries which seek increased international contact and exchange and who (notably in Poland) hope for relaxation of the Cold War as the necessary condition for slow accretions to their freedom. In the same way, our preoccupation with nuclear competition with...
...myopic focus on military strength blinds us to our overriding common interests with all countries. We have a deep responsibility to contribute effectively and promptly to the economic and social development of other countries, instead of drawing them into the nuclear conflict. The great populations of Asia, Africa, and South America seek a more representative influence on world affairs. Only the creation of political and economic structures capable of realizing the technical possibilities and human potentialities can meet the needs of these dynamic societies. We must not impose the Cold War upon them, but encourage new solutions which...
...focus in our efforts to achieve universal disarmament: Until the inadequacy of the military response to existing world conflict is fully and openly realized and we flatly reject reliance on mass destruction, disarmament negotiations cannot be expected to meet the urgency of our existing situation. To take nuclear test ban negotiations as an example only as our perspective changes will we reverse our assessment of the risks in the Geneva negotiations. With a commitment to the abolition of nuclear weapons, the possibility of undetected small yield explosions becomes acceptable. We achieve in exchange the acceptance, in principle and in fact...