Our role is essential and unavoidable in the construction of a sound and expanding economy for the entire non-communist world, helping other nations build the strength to meet their own problems, to satisfy their own aspirations--to surmount their own dangers.
Kennedy advocates for the U.S. role in supporting economic development in non-communist countries to promote global stability.
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Our decision could well affect the unity of the West, the course of the Cold War, and the economic growth of our Nation for a generation to come.
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Our instrument and our hope is the United Nations--and I see little merit in the impatience of those who would abandon this imperfect world instrument because they dislike our imperfect world.
But as an institution, it should have in the future, as it has had in the past since its inception, no stronger or more faithful member than the United States of America.