The Friendly American: A Book of Hope; 50 Personal Stories from Many Parts of the World. Goals for All Men in 28 Languages

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Department of the Navy, 1963 - Всего страниц: 276

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Стр. 259 - To those peoples in the huts and villages of half the globe struggling to break the bonds of mass misery, we pledge our best efforts to help them help themselves, for whatever period is required — not because the Communists may be doing it, not because we seek their votes, but because it is right.
Стр. 247 - Let us once again transform the American continent into a vast crucible of revolutionary ideas and efforts — a tribute to the power of the creative energies of free men and women, an example to all the world that liberty and progress walk hand in hand.
Стр. 247 - I have called on all the People of the Hemisphere to join in a new Alliance for Progress — Alianza para el Progreso — a vast cooperative effort, unparalleled in magnitude and nobility of purpose, to satisfy the basic needs of the American people for homes, work and land, health and schools — techo, trabajo y tierra, salud y escuela.
Стр. 246 - Throughout Latin America— a continent rich in resources and in the spiritual and cultural achievements of its people -millions of men and women suffer the daily degradations of hunger and poverty. They lack decent shelter or protection from disease . Their children are deprived of the education or the jobs which are the gateway to a better life.
Стр. 247 - This political freedom must be accompanied by social change. For unless necessary social reforms, including land and tax reform, are freely made; unless we broaden the opportunity of all of our people; unless the great mass of Americans share in increasing prosperity, then our alliance, our revolution, our dream and our freedom will fail.
Стр. 246 - ... decent shelter or protection from disease . Their children are deprived of the education or the jobs which are the gateway to a better life. And each day the problems grow more urgent. Population growth is outpacing economic growth, low living standards are even...
Стр. 247 - These 10 years will be the years of maximum progress, maximum effort — the years when the greatest obstacles must be overcome, the years when the need for assistance will be the greatest. And if we are successful, if our effort is bold enough and determined enough, then the close of this decade will mark the beginning of a new era in the American experience.
Стр. 246 - States, stirred by the heroic struggle of its fellow Americans, urged the independence and recognition of the new Latin American republics. It was then, at the dawn of freedom throughout this hemisphere, that Bolivar spoke of his desire to see the Americas fashioned into the greatest region in the world, "greatest," he said, "not so much by virtue of her area and her wealth, as by her freedom and her glory.
Стр. 8 - I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.
Стр. 247 - Americans share in increasing prosperity, then our alliance, our revolution, our dream and our freedom will fail. But we call for social change by free men, change in the spirit of Washington and Jefferson, of Bolivar and San Martin and...

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