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| Y ghall borrow a Line from the political esmpaign of 1946: ‘Jt ts time for a change. And the New Pasty will bring that change. “If we work and adhere to our principles; if we do not permit one of us ‘to be turned against the other by issues which are secondary to the all-important, life or death problen of preserving peace and democracy, we shall triumph just as surely as others have won the battles for freedom, when our nation has been in jeopardy. . In 1859, Abrehan Lincoln said of his New Party: "The party is newly formed; and in forming, old party ties had to be broken, end the attractions of party pride and influential leaders are wholly wanting. In epite of old differences, prejudices, and aniposities, its mexbers were drawn together Dy a common danger. They formed and manuevered in the face of a ‘disciplined enemy and in the teeth of all his persistent misrepresentations.....0f course, they fell far short of gathering in all of their own. And yet, @ year ago, they stood & an aray over thirteen hundred thousand strong. That army is today the best hope of the nation and of the world, Their work is before them; and from which they may not guiltleesly turn away. Qur_work is before us and we cannot guiltlesely turn away. a fow weeks after ny last trip to Boston, I vee din Palestine, where spirited pioneers were building a new nation. It was a state which could serve. as a refuge for the remants of Buropean Jewry and asa model for the ettire Middle Fast. It was a lend of hope. _ Today those hopes have been struck @ severe blow. The abandonment of the , Ul decision to partition Palestine by the State Department is the most blatant example of a foreign policy which ia losing us our moral leadership in world affairs. (more) pea ec ae etn ema