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Until The Last Great War, A General Expectation Of Material Improvement Was An Idea Peculiar To Western Man. Now War And Its Aftermath Have Made Economic And Social Progress A Political Imperative In Every Quarter Of The Globe.

The Life Of States Cannot, Any More Than The Life Of Individuals, Be Conditioned By The Force And The Will Of A Unit, However Powerful, But By The Consensus Of A Group, Which Must One Day Include All States.

We Must Keep On Trying To Solve Problems, One By One, Stage By Stage, If Not On The Basis Of Confidence And Cooperation, At Least On That Of Mutual Toleration And Self-interest.

Every State Has Not Only The Right But The Duty To Make Adequate Provision For Its Own Defense In The Way It Thinks Best, Providing It Does Not Do So At The Expense Of Any Other State.

And I Have Lived Since - As You Have - In A Period Of Cold War, During Which We Have Ensured By Our Achievements In The Science And Technology Of Destruction That A Third Act In This Tragedy Of War Will Result In The Peace Of Extinction.