I am confident that this year, as in the past, we will break new ground in the effort to provide for a more peaceful world.
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Remarks at the Swearing In of Representatives and Alternates to the 18th U.N. General Assembly.
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We also have a program here for those whom we regard as mentally restored, those who pass through a difficult period but who are now fully capable of carrying their burden.
Never has there been any question in my mind, President Eisenhower said recently, as to the necessity of a program of economic and military aid to keep the free nations of the world from being overrun by the Communists.
And to weaken and water down the pending program, to confuse and confine its flexibility with rigid restrictions and rejections, will not only harm our economy, it will hamper our security.
The Family of Man can survive differences of race and religion. Contrary to the assertions of Mr. Khrushchev, it can accept differences of ideology, politics, and economics.





