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Eleanor Roosevelt — Part 26
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deep uneasiness exists inside Americans as we look
on the world.
It is not that we have suddenly become unsure of our-
cs in a world in which the Sovicc Union has dramatically
Guin. tc terrific supremacy. oot
Nor thac the same propulsion device that can send a
made satellite into outer space canssend a masile carry-
a hydrogen bomb across the ocean in eighteen minutes,
Nor is the uncasiness only the result of headlines that
of trouble between Turkcy and Syria and a war that
not be limited to the Middle East.
The uneasiness that exists inside Americans has to do
the fact that we are not living up to our moral ca-
“ty in ghe world.
We been living half a life. We have been develop-
our appetites, buc we have been starving our purposcs,
have been concerned with bigger incomes, bigger tele-
on screens, and bigger cars—but not with the big ideas
which out lives and freedoms depend.
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care facing a danger unlike any danger that has ever
ied. In our possession and in the possession of the Russians
more than enough nuclear explosives to put an end to
life of man on earth.
Our pneasiness is the resule of the face that our approach
the dSinger is unequal to the danger, Our response to the
Wenge of today’s world secms out of joint. The slogans
| argwmencs that belong to the world of competitive
canal’ daverniontiee—-a world of plot and counter-plot—
First of a Series of Statem
e Are Facing A Danger Unlike
Danger That Has Ever Existed...
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What You Can Do
1 What you say and whit you do make public
opinion. Let the patie bo serie you in
public office know of your apprebeusions
and your hopes. Above all, make your ideas
knows to the Presideat of the United States.
2. You can join the signers of this statement.
3, You cun belp make it possible for this stafc-
ment and otber statcments like it to appear
in newspapers throughout the couniry an
the world.
4. You can talk to your friends and neighbors
about the points in this message. You cau
discuss these amattess in your church or
synagoguc, your clib, your school, your
union.
§. You can fr'l ont toe two coupans below:
Send une te the 1 -csident and the ather to
the Detroit Coun rtce Fue a Sacte Nuclear
Policy. ,
a el - ee ~ e
ents For Americans in A Nuclear Age
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interests of the entire human community through a poc
of world science. '
AS (T CONCERNS NUCLEAR TESTING, AMERICA CAN SAY:
That because of the grave unanswered questions
respect to nuclear test es plesinns—eeps Abs ay i corr
the contamination of air and water‘and fyod, and the in;
to man himself—we are calling upon all nations to susy
such explosions af once;
That while the abolition of testing will not by 1
solve the problem of peace of the' problem of armam
it enables the world to climinace immediately at lease
real and specific danger. Also, that the abolition of te
gives us a place to begin on the larger question of arman
control, for the problems in monitoring such tests are
tively uncomplicated.
AS IT CONCERNS OUR CONNECTIONS TO THE REST OF MANKIND,
AMERIKA CAN SAY:
That none of the differences separating the go
ments of the world are as important as the membersh
ail peoples i the human family; |
That tle big challenge of the age is to develo
concept of 4 higher loyalty—loyalty by man to the he
community;
That t > greatest cra of human history on car
within ce. bof all mankind, that the - «no acca that :.
be mace. fl ¢ OF halatable, no disean 9 at ea. net lic .
no scary | at canner be conquerel
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