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Wh May. eed pea pS aa aap Ty aTt ER aT a ee ay TR A Oe he RINE oo cde et mete et : : et . wip Sy Loge . > my > REs COWMERP Py. To WEEK in en se ee The United Nations was in large part designed to preserve the kind of world stability that the League of Nations was supposed to preserve, stable regimes friendly to capitalist development. It was clear, however, from the very beginning that the United Nations by itself could not fulfill this considerable role. And in large part, the United States had pursued a policy of achieving Stability, Of achieving favoral-le ccnditions for economic expansion for world capitalism our fide the United Nations, The Marshal}. Plan, fer cxample, following the Second World Wur was not conceived in berms of @ roble gesture to help our European friends. It was conceived in terms of protecting western European capitalism from the threat of Socialists. It was scld to. the Americun business community with the argument that a healthy capitalist Ferone was essential to a healthy capitalist America. ‘Mie United Stutes slso proceeded with a system of Alliareces, Shortiv after WerJd War T1, containment became official American policy. Centajneont was rationalized in terms of defending free world aqaip-t agaqressive Soviet imperjalism. In fact, con~ tainment was designed to preserve a world system favorable to the interests and favorable to the prosperity of the United States. In =ddition to the system of alliances, the United States has actively supported counter-revolutionary activities where and wherever revolutionary activities toward national liberation, Vietnam, Latin America, elsewhere, have threatened to upset the kind of world system, the kind of world stability that the United Statos desires. § , Lav and order is net just a damestic issue, but in terms Of American foreign policy tlan, it is currently a world issue. As HUBERT HUMPHREY remazked in 1966, "The day that this nation does not. honor its commitments in Vietnam and elsewhere, it is on that day that the whcle fabric of international law and order is torn apart and breaks down." J think at this point, I'll stop. I've probably gone on too long already. I had intended to talk a bit about the very close connection between American economic expansion since the 134 > pond — soo 7 zo On Te ae SE eT - ~ age Ny ee Poa tae od paste Aer =: ety aan Fate