"the Making Of Peace Is A Continuing

To Criticize One's Country Is To Do It A Service.... Criticism, In Short, Is More Than A Right; It Is An Act Of Patriotism-a Higher Form Of Patriotism, I Believe, Than The Familiar Rituals And National Adulation.

It Is In A Way A Mystery That, Instead Of Demanding That Their Governments Give Primary Attention To Their Own Needs And Aspirations, Most Of The Citizens Of Big Counties-those, That Is, That Have The Status Of Being "powers" In The World-far From Being Self-centered Or Materialistic As They Are Commonly Credited With Being, The Ordinary Citizen And His Elected Representative All Too Often Turn Out To Be Romantics, Ready And Eager To Sacrifice Programs Of Health, Education And Welfare For The Power And Pride Of The Nation.

The American Public Has Become So Conditioned By Crises, By Warnings, By Words, That There Are Few, Other Than The Young, Who Protest Against What Is Happening.

The Program Further Aims To Make The Benefits Of American Culture And Technology Available To The World And To Enrich American Life By Exposing It To The Science And Art Of Many Societies.

During A Single Week Of July 1967, 164 Americans Were Killed And 2100 Were Wounded In City Riots In The United States. We Are Truly Fighting A Two-front War And Doing Badly In Both. Each War Feeds On The Other And, Although The President Assures Us That We Have The Resources To Win Both Wars, In Fact We Are Not Winning Either.