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t ce, : nae : ; . I ghall borrow a line fron the political campaign of 19461 Tt ts time for a‘! . 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 problem of preserving peace and democracy, we shall triumph just as surely as others have won the battles for freedon, when our nation has been in jeopardy. . In 1859, Abrehan Lincoln said of his New Party: "The party is newly formed; and in forming, 01d party ties had to be broken, and the attractions of party pride and influential leaders are wholly wanting. In ‘@pite of old differences, prejudices, and animosities, its members were drawn | together by a common danger. They formed and manuevered in the face of a ‘disciplined eneny and in the teeth of all his persistent misrepresentations.....0f course, they fell far short of gathering in all of their own. And yet, a year ago, they stood Up an arny 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 guiltlessly turn away.® Qur_work is before us and we cannot guiltlessly turn away. & few weeks efter my last trip to Boston, T wes in Palestine, where spirited pioneers were building a new nation. It was a state which could serve. as a refuge for the remnants of European Jewry and as 4 model for the eatire Middle East. It was.a land of hope. | Today those hopes have been struck a severe blow. The abandonment of the UN decision to partition Palestine by the State Department is the most blatant example of a foreign policy which is losing us our moral leadership in world affairs. (more)