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Message from World United News Blog Owner Stewart Brennan
“Be the change you want to see in the world”…well that is
what I have been trying to do for the past 7 years but because there are so
many things I wanted to see changed in the world, I took on way too many topics to be any sort of effective change at all. So I made a decision
today to focus on one topic that would bring about positive change in the world
that could also have an effect on all the topics and issues I cared about and
wanted to see changed for the better…my choice also had to be something I
really enjoyed doing and really cared about so I decided to concentrate my time
and efforts on promoting music.
Over the past 3 ½ years I have proved beyond a shadow of a
doubt that there are far more artists in the world that deserve to be in the
public spotlight than is presently being offered. Quite simply, I don’t like
what the mainstream offers or has offered for a long time, so this is where I
want to see change, and the only way to change that is to just do it…Music is
an art-form that reflects everyday life and is a powerful medium that expresses
our feelings while motivating our wishes and dreams…Music is a creative process
that has been silenced for far too long and needs to be unleashed into the
World once again…it is the medicine of our souls and the rhythm of our hearts,
so “World United Music” is stepping up another notch to bring about musical
change in the World.
I know I have already played a small part for some 400 plus
bands and artists but it isn’t enough and my goal has not been reached so I
hope you will join me on this spiritual quest and share with your friends the
music that resonates with you. Your endorsement through sharing with friends is
the best way to spread the word and bring about the changes we all want to see
in this world…in my mind, our Revolution BEGINS with music…because music is the
peoples voice and will not be denied.
Most of my energy will now be focused on the
World United Music Website.
Huge crowds have
gathered across Egypt to demand the resignation of President Mohammed Morsi on
the first anniversary of his inauguration. But Morsi loyalists are staging
counter-demonstrations, saying they will defend the leader with all means
available.
Seven people have
been killed and hundreds were injured on Sunday as millions took to the
streets. Five dead were shot in Nile Valley towns south of Cairo and two were
killed in violence outside the Muslim Brotherhood's headquarters in the
capital.
"It is
the biggest protest in Egypt's history," a military source told AFP on condition of
anonymity.
The opposition
released a statement early on Monday demanding President Mohammed Morsi step
down by Tuesday at 5pm. The movement also called on “police, army and
judiciary” to support the people’s will. If Morsi fails to resign by
Tuesday, civil disobedience will continue throughout the country.
From early on
Sunday, throngs streamed towards Tahrir Square in Cairo – the birthplace of the
protests that displaced former president Hosni Mubarak in 2011 – under the
rallying cry of “Leave, Morsi! Leave!”. The organizers, an activist movement
called Tamarod, or Rebellion, asked demonstrators – who include pro-democratic
secularists, religious minorities, and those suffering in Egypt’s stuttering
economy – to leave their party allegiances at home, and bring only national
flags to the rally.
“Morsi you have
split the people!” chanted the crowd, with some holding placards saying
“Freedom to Egypt!”. On the edges of the square banners declared “No Muslim
Brotherhood members allowed beyond this point”.
Protesters wave
Egyptian flags as demonstrators opposing Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi shout
slogans against him and Brotherhood members during a protest at Tahrir Square
in Cairo June 30, 2013. (Reuters/Mohamed Abd El Ghany)
Although, the
organized demonstration was scheduled for the evening, even by mid-afternoon,
several hundred thousand people squeezed into the increasingly tight space.
Tamarod says it is expecting up to 7 million people to eventually join the
long-planned protest, with large demonstrations scheduled in every significant
population center.
Tamarod says that
since April it has gathered more than 22 million signatures demanding Morsi’s
resignation, far more than the 13 million votes the long-time Muslim
Brotherhood member received in his narrow run-off victory a year ago.
Organizers say the president must quit immediately and dissolve the
Islamist-dominated Shura Council, the upper chamber of parliament that has been
in charge of lawmaking for the past year.
Additionally,
protesters are appealing for a re-start on the suspended drafting of a new
constitution. Failure to agree on a new founding charter in the wake of
Mubarak’s toppling has contributed to the gridlock that has paralyzed the
country’s political institutions. A new parliamentary election is also on the
list of demands, after the Supreme Court dismissed the pro-Morsi lower house of
the legislative assembly last year immediately following the vote, for alleged
procedural violations in the run-up to the balloting
An opponent of
Egypt's Islamist President Mohamed Morsi shouts slogans while waving his
national flag during a protest calling for his ouster outside the presidential
palace in Cairo on June 30, 2013 (AFP Photo / Khaled Desouki)
On Sunday night,
anti-Morsi activists torched the office of the Freedom and Justice Party (FJP),
the Muslim Brotherhood’s political arm, in the city of Beni Suef, and one man
was killed in a later street battle between pro and anti-Morsi activists in the
same city.
Anti-Morsi
protesters also tried to storm the heavily-fortified headquarters of the Muslim
Brotherhood on Sunday evening, using shotguns, rocks and firebombs, but were
repelled.
At least five
other offices of the FJP and the Brotherhood have been set on fire in the past
week, with seven dead and more than 600 injured, according to local newspapers
Photo from
Twitter/@gelhaddad
Opposition
activists have successfully blocked off several highways and railroads between
major urban centers. At some sites state media reported that police officers
joined in chanting anti-Morsi slogans with the protesters. Senior interior
security force officers have openly clashed with Morsi, and the police has said
that it “lacks manpower” to protect Muslim Brotherhood properties around the
country, despite repeated attacks.
Protesters
opposing Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi waves Egyptian flags during a protest
in front of the presidential palace in Cairo June 30, 2013. (Reuters/Suhaib
Salem)
Despite rising
tension, Morsi has decisively rejected the protesters’ calls.
"If we
changed someone in office who was elected according to constitutional
legitimacy – well, there will be people opposing the new president too, and a
week or a month later they will ask him to step down,” the president told the
Guardian newspaper on the eve of the demonstrations.
He has also dismissed
the crowd as “remnants of the old regime”, and the protesters as “paid-up
thugs.”
“Any revolution
has its enemies and there are some people who are trying to obstruct the path
of the Egyptian people towards democracy,” Morsi summed up.
This is unlikely
to pacify those in Tahrir Square crying out for a “second revolution”.
Opposition
figures say Morsi has mishandled the mandate handed to him a year ago by
attempting to monopolize power, sidelining all those who do not share his
religious and political vision. They cite the insertion of divisive Islamic
articles into the proposed text of the new constitution, en-masse appointment
of Muslim Brotherhood officials to key posts, and a decree that removed the
Supreme Court’s authority to challenge the president’s decisions as some of the
major missteps
Thousands of
opponents of Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi pray during a protest calling for
his ouster at Cairo's landmark Tahrir Square on June 30, 2013 (AFP Photo /
Khaled Desouki)
They also say that
the president has failed to revive the economy. Despite GDP growth of 2.2
percent last year, the country has been plagued by electricity and fuel
shortages that have seen huge queues form outside petrol stations. Income in
tourist areas has also plummeted after two years of instability and
anti-Western pronouncements by Morsi-supporting radical clerics.
“We gave Morsi
the permit to drive; he doesn't know how to drive. The country is decaying and
is failing, this is not Egypt and this is not the revolution,” Mohammed
ElBaradei, Nobel Peace Prize winner, and opposition politician said ahead of
the rallies.
With strident
language on both sides, the stand-off is unlikely to resolve neatly.
Since Friday,
Morsi supporters have camped outside a mosque in Nasr City, on the other side
of Cairo. Brandishing green Islamic flags, some were wearing home-made armor,
and most told journalists they would be ready to physically fight for the
“legitimate” president
Supporters of
Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi shout slogans during a protest around the Raba
El-Adwyia mosque square in Nasr City, a suburb of Cairo, June 30, 2013
(Reuters)
“If there is
treason, we are here,” warned Ahmed Abdel Azeez, a Brotherhood member, in an
interview with New York Times.
The army, which
stepped in to temporarily assume power following the clashes that followed
Mubarak’s unseating, said it will not tolerate an “attack on the will of the
people” or allow Egypt to enter “a dark tunnel of conflict”. The ambiguous
remarks, uttered by defense minister Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, have been taken to
mean by local media that the army will not interfere in the course of the
protests, unless direct confrontation between the conflicting factions takes
place.
On Sunday, army
helicopters flew over the Cairo skyline and heavier than usual army cordons
were deployed around key sites, including government buildings and the Suez
Canal. Mechanized infantry units have been placed around Tahrir Square itself,
and all hospitals in major cities are on standby.
The country’s
land borders have also been sealed.
US, Qatar and
Belgium are amongst states that have officially revealed that they are
withdrawing their diplomats for the duration of the showdown. On Sunday Cairo
airport was crowded with foreign nationals and wealthy Egyptians attempting to
leave the country on predominantly fully-booked flights
Protesters
opposing Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi shout slogans against him and
Brotherhood members during a protest at Tahrir Square in Cairo June 30, 2013.
(Reuters/Mohamed Abd El Ghany)
The Egyptian army has given politicians 48 hours to meet the
demands of the people and resolve the ongoing political crisis in the African
country.
The Commander-in-Chief of the Egyptian Armed Forces General Abdel Fattah
al-Sisi said in a Monday statement that if political forces fail to agree to
the popular demands, the military will offer its own road map to end the
crisis.
“If the demands of the people are not realized within the
defined period, it will be incumbent upon (the armed forces) ... to announce a
road map for the future,” said the statement by al-Sisi.
He further said the Egyptian people have expressed their will with
“unprecedented” clarity in their nationwide protests, adding, “Wasting more
time will lead only to more division ... which we have warned and continue to
warn against.” The military also said it will supervise the execution of its roadmap “with the
participation of all factions and national parties, including young people.”
However, al-Sisi rejected the army’s direct involvement in politics or
government. The military warning comes after the opposition set July 2 as a deadline for
President Mohamed Morsi to step down. “We give Mohamed Morsi until 5:00 p.m. (1500 GMT) on Tuesday, July 2, to leave
power, allowing state institutions to prepare for early presidential
elections,” said a Monday statement by Egypt’s opposition movement of Tamarod. The massive protests on Sunday came on the first anniversary of Morsi’s
inauguration as president following the 2011 revolution that toppled the
Western-backed regime of Hosni Mubarak. The demonstrators are angry at Morsi's handling of the economy and failure to
fulfill his electoral promises
.
Leading Egyptian opposition figure Amr Moussa has welcomed a
statement by the country’s army which gave politicians 48 hours to resolve the
ongoing political crisis in Egypt.
“Wasting more time will make things worse. The invitation to meet the demands
of the people within the next few hours is a historical opportunity which
should not be lost,” Moussa said in a Monday statement. Earlier in the day, the Commander-in-Chief of the Egyptian Armed Forces General
Abdel Fattah al-Sisi said in a statement that “if the demands of the people are
not realized within the defined period, it will be incumbent upon (the armed
forces) ... to announce a road map for the future.” The military’s statement further said the Egyptian people have expressed their
will with “unprecedented” clarity in their nationwide protests, adding,
“Wasting more time will lead only to more division ... which we have warned and
continue to warn against.”
In reaction to the military’s statement, Mahmud Ghozlan who
is a senior leader of Muslim Brotherhood said that it is “studying” the
statement, adding that their political bureau will meet to “decide on its
position.”
On Sunday, anti-government protesters flooded the streets across Egypt, calling
for the resignation of President Mohamed Morsi.
On Monday, the Egyptian Health Ministry said 16 people had lost their lives the
day before, including eight people who were killed in clashes between
supporters and opponents of Morsi outside the Muslim Brotherhood headquarters
in the capital, Cairo.
On Monday morning, the protesters attacked the headquarters in the eastern
Moqattam District and looted it. The six-story building was also set on fire.
Meanwhile, reports say that Egyptian security forces have arrested 15
bodyguards of top Muslim Brotherhood leader Khairat El-Shater on Monday
.
The office of Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi says it
rejects the army’s ultimatum, which gave the government 48 hours to resolve the
current national crisis.
In a statement issued on Monday, the office said that some phrases in the
ultimatum could create confusion, AFP reported.
It said it denounces "any declaration that would deepen
division" and "threaten the social peace" in the country.
The statement added that the presidency would continue on its own path towards
national reconciliation. President Morsi was consulting "with all national forces to secure the
path of democratic change and the protection of the popular will,"
according to the statement. "The civil democratic Egyptian state is one of the most important
achievements of the January 25 revolution," it pointed out, nothing that
"Egypt will absolutely not permit any step backward whatever the
circumstances," it said. Earlier in the day, Egypt's army said it would intervene if Morsi and his
opponents fail to resolve the crisis in the country in 48 hours. On Sunday, millions of Egyptians demonstrated in cities nationwide to demand
Morsi's resignation and early presidential elections. The country’s Health Ministry said 16 people were killed in Sunday’s
demonstrations. The massive protests on Sunday came on the first anniversary of Morsi’s
inauguration as president following the 2011 revolution that toppled the
Western-backed regime of former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak. The protests continued on Monday. The opposition movement behind the protests
-- Tamarod (Arabic for Rebellion) -- has given Morsi until 5:00 p.m. (1500 GMT)
on Tuesday to step down and call fresh presidential elections, or else face a
campaign of civil disobedience. Several political groups say the government is dominated by the Muslim
Brotherhood. The opposition also accuses Morsi of deviating from the 2011
revolution
Egyptian Foreign Minister Kamel Amr has tendered his
resignation, as massive protests continue against the country’s President
Mohamed Morsi.
The ministers of tourism, environment, communication and legal affairs also
submitted their letters of resignation to Prime Minister Hisham Qandil on
Monday, a day after widespread pro and anti-government demonstrations all
across the country, in which at least 16 people were killed and hundreds more
were wounded.
On July 1, the Egyptian army gave President Morsi a 48-hour ultimatum to
resolve the political crisis in the African country, which followed the
opposition movement’s resignation deadline for Morsi.
However, the Egyptian president dismissed the army’s statement as an attempt to
“deepen divisions and threaten the social peace.”
Morsi also announced in a statement issued on Tuesday that he would continue
with his own plans for national reconciliation.
The massive protests came on the first anniversary of Morsi’s inauguration as
president following the 2011 revolution that toppled the Western-backed regime
of Hosni Mubarak.
In a televised address on June 26, Morsi said the polarization of the country’s
political life is “threatening to paralyze” Egypt.
He also acknowledged that he had made some mistakes during his first year in
office but called for national reconciliation, saying that he was open to
cooperating with the opposition on constitutional reform.
On June 27, Egypt’s main opposition coalition, the National Salvation Front
(NSF), rejected the offer, demanding the ouster of the incumbent president
.
Hidden in Conservative Govt Bill C-45 is a law that allows
Corporations a free hand to destroy Canadian rivers and lakes which are the
source of life, and our drinking water. AND when you add agreements free trade
agreements like FIPPA which allows Chinese companies a free hand and not be
held accountable, we have a very serious breach of Canadian sovereignty!
Crime Timeline:
2012 – July 23 – CNOOC announces the buyout of NEXEN
2012 – Sept 20 - NEXEN Share Holders Approve Sale to CNOOC
2012 – Oct 07 – FIPPA agreement with China Signed by Harper
2012 – Dec 07 – Harper Government gives full approval of
sale of NEXEN to CNOOC
2012 – Dec 14 - Senate Passes Harper Government Bill C-45
that will allow Corp destruction of the environment.
The Canada-China Foreign
Investment Promotion and Protection Act (FIPPA), went into effect in October of 2012 and is Canada's biggest
foreign trade treaty since NAFTA.
Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper Sold a piece of
Canada to the Highest Bidder and changed Canadian Law to ensure that the
Chinese State Owned Company could not be challenged by anyone through Bill
C-45. This bill Destroys Canadian Sovereignty and the protection over its lakes
and rivers.
Under Chinese Law, Corporations are not held accountable for
environmental disasters, and now in Canada the same destructive governance will
apply.
However let’s not let all the others off the hook. Oil
Corporations the World Over are “MASSIVE POLLUTERS” but Canadian environmental
laws have held them back from running rabid over Canadian land and
waterways…well no more because Bill C-45 destroyed the environmental protection
of all our lakes and rivers.
The FIPPA treaty will absolve China of any environmental
disasters committed in Canada meaning our own courts cannot prosecute the
owners for negligence or environmental crimes.
In essence, Stephen Harper has allowed a foreign government
to do what it pleases on our land and we wont have any recourse to stop them.
Bill C-45 was the last remaining hurdle to stop China from coming in and
poisoning the people of Canada…and that Bill is now law.
What does this all mean?
Foreign governments, Corporations, and Banks control the
decision making in Canada and Harper is their enforcer.
The Harper Government knew EXACTLY what they were doing when
they destroyed Canadian sovereignty and signed free trade with China (FIPPA),
rubber stamped the sale of NEXEN, and passed Bill C-45.
Oil Corporate Executives sit in Government, and Past
Government officials sit on various Boards of Directors in the Oil Corporations
operating in the Alberta Tar Sands. Not only is this a conflict of interest, it
is a Crime to allow these maniacs to continue making decisions.
Certainly the poisoning of our lakes, rivers, and land
should be considered as crimes against humanity since the people will meet with
a horrific slow death by carcinogenic Tar Sands sludge poisoning.
Isn’t it time we put an end to the Alberta Tar Sands and its
ethnic cleansing of the indigenous people? Isn’t it time to stand up and put
the brakes on this out of control freight train called greed?
In“My Opinion”,
everyone that voted to pass Bill C-45 or agree to FIPPA have committed treason
of the highest degree.
Citizens of Canada, it’s time to wake up! Don’t let Stephen
Harper and his government destroy the land, poison the people, and allow
corporations to plunder our natural resources. Now is the time to stand up and
remove these traitors from office or it will be too late to stop the
destruction of our country.
Suncor Energy Syncrude Canada Ltd Royal Dutch Shell Chevron
Marathon Oil Corp. Teck Resources Ltd
Cenovus Energy ConocoPhillips
Total S.A. JACOS OPTI Canada Devon Energy Imperial Oil EXXON Mobil Husky Energy Occidental Petroleum BP IMPEX Statoil Laricina Energy Korea National
Oil Corporation Sinopec NEXEN/ CNOOC
Good evening, my fellow Americans: First, I should like to express my gratitude to the radio and television networks for the opportunity they have given me over the years to bring reports and messages to our nation. My special thanks go to them for the opportunity of addressing you this evening.
Three days from now, after a half century of service of our country, I shall lay down the responsibilities of office as, in traditional and solemn ceremony, the authority of the Presidency is vested in my successor.
This evening I come to you with a message of leave-taking and farewell, and to share a few final thoughts with you, my countrymen.
Like every other citizen, I wish the new President, and all who will labor with him, Godspeed. I pray that the coming years will be blessed with peace and prosperity for all.
Our people expect their President and the Congress to find essential agreement on questions of great moment, the wise resolution of which will better shape the future of the nation.
My own relations with Congress, which began on a remote and tenuous basis when, long ago, a member of the Senate appointed me to West Point, have since ranged to the intimate during the war and immediate post-war period, and finally to the mutually interdependent during these past eight years.
In this final relationship, the Congress and the Administration have, on most vital issues, cooperated well, to serve the nation well rather than mere partisanship, and so have assured that the business of the nation should go forward. So my official relationship with Congress ends in a feeling on my part, of gratitude that we have been able to do so much together.
We now stand ten years past the midpoint of a century that has witnessed four major wars among great nations. Three of these involved our own country.
Despite these holocausts America is today the strongest, the most influential and most productive nation in the world. Understandably proud of this pre-eminence, we yet realize that America's leadership and prestige depend, not merely upon our unmatched material progress, riches and military strength, but on how we use our power in the interests of world peace and human betterment.
Throughout America's adventure in free government, such basic purposes have been to keep the peace; to foster progress in human achievement, and to enhance liberty, dignity and integrity among peoples and among nations.
To strive for less would be unworthy of a free and religious people.
Any failure traceable to arrogance or our lack of comprehension or readiness to sacrifice would inflict upon us a grievous hurt, both at home and abroad.
Progress toward these noble goals is persistently threatened by the conflict now engulfing the world. It commands our whole attention, absorbs our very beings.
We face a hostile ideology global in scope, atheistic in character, ruthless in purpose, and insidious in method. Unhappily the danger it poses promises to be of indefinite duration. To meet it successfully, there is called for, not so much the emotional and transitory sacrifices of crisis, but rather those which enable us to carry forward steadily, surely, and without complaint the burdens of a prolonged and complex struggle – with liberty the stake. Only thus shall we remain, despite every provocation, on our charted course toward permanent peace and human betterment.
Crises there will continue to be. In meeting them, whether foreign or domestic, great or small, there is a recurring temptation to feel that some spectacular and costly action could become the miraculous solution to all current difficulties. A huge increase in the newer elements of our defenses; development of unrealistic programs to cure every ill in agriculture; a dramatic expansion in basic and applied research – these and many other possibilities, each possibly promising in itself, may be suggested as the only way to the road we wish to travel.
A vital element in keeping the peace is our military establishment. Our arms must be mighty, ready for instant action, so that no potential aggressor may be tempted to risk his own destruction.
But each proposal must be weighed in light of a broader consideration; the need to maintain balance in and among national programs – balance between the private and the public economy, balance between the cost and hoped for advantages – balance between the clearly necessary and the comfortably desirable; balance between our essential requirements as a nation and the duties imposed by the nation upon the individual; balance between the actions of the moment and the national welfare of the future. Good judgment seeks balance and progress; lack of it eventually finds imbalance and frustration.
The record of many decades stands as proof that our people and their Government have, in the main, understood these truths and have responded to them well in the face of threat and stress. But threats, new in kind or degree, constantly arise.
Of these, I mention two only.
A vital element in keeping the peace is our military establishment. Our arms must be mighty, ready for instant action, so that no potential aggressor may be tempted to risk his own destruction.
Our military organization today bears little relation to that known by any of my predecessors in peacetime, or indeed by the fighting men of World War II or Korea.
Until the latest of our world conflicts, the United States had no armaments industry. American makers of plowshares could, with time and as required, make swords as well. But now we can no longer risk emergency improvisation of national defense; we have been compelled to create a permanent armaments industry of vast proportions. Added to this, three and a half million men and women are directly engaged in the defense establishment. We annually spend on military security more than the net income of all United States corporations.
American makers of plowshares could, with time and as required, make swords as well. But now we can no longer risk emergency improvisation of national defense; we have been compelled to create a permanent armaments industry of vast proportions.
This conjunction of an immense military establishment and a large arms industry is new in the American experience. The total influence – economic, political, even spiritual – is felt in every city, every Statehouse, every office of the Federal government. We recognize the imperative need for this development. Yet we must not fail to comprehend its grave implications. Our toil, resources and livelihood are all involved; so is the very structure of our society.
In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.
We must never let the weight of this combination endanger our liberties or democratic processes. We should take nothing for granted. Only an alert and knowledgeable citizenry can compel the proper meshing of the huge industrial and military machinery of defense with our peaceful methods and goals, so that security and liberty may prosper together.
Akin to, and largely responsible for the sweeping changes in our industrial-military posture, has been the technological revolution during recent decades.
In this revolution, research has become central, it also becomes more formalized, complex, and costly. A steadily increasing share is conducted for, by, or at the direction of, the Federal government.
Today, the solitary inventor, tinkering in his shop, has been overshadowed by task forces of scientists in laboratories and testing fields. In the same fashion, the free university, historically the fountainhead of free ideas and scientific discovery, has experienced a revolution in the conduct of research. Partly because of the huge costs involved, a government contract becomes virtually a substitute for intellectual curiosity. For every old blackboard there are now hundreds of new electronic computers.
The prospect of domination of the nation's scholars by Federal employment, project allocations, and the power of money is ever present – and is gravely to be regarded.
Yet, in holding scientific research and discovery in respect, as we should, we must also be alert to the equal and opposite danger that public policy could itself become the captive of a scientific-technological elite.
The prospect of domination of the nation's scholars by Federal employment, project allocations, and the power of money is ever present – and is gravely to be regarded.
It is the task of statesmanship to mold, to balance, and to integrate these and other forces, new and old, within the principles of our democratic system – ever aiming toward the supreme goals of our free society.
Another factor in maintaining balance involves the element of time. As we peer into society's future, we – you and I, and our government – must avoid the impulse to live only for today, plundering for, for our own ease and convenience, the precious resources of tomorrow. We cannot mortgage the material assets of our grandchildren without asking the loss also of their political and spiritual heritage. We want democracy to survive for all generations to come, not to become the insolvent phantom of tomorrow.
Down the long lane of the history yet to be written America knows that this world of ours, ever growing smaller, must avoid becoming a community of dreadful fear and hate, and be, instead, a proud confederation of mutual trust and respect.
Such a confederation must be one of equals. The weakest must come to the conference table with the same confidence as do we, protected as we are by our moral, economic, and military strength. That table, though scarred by many past frustrations, cannot be abandoned for the certain agony of the battlefield.
Disarmament, with mutual honor and confidence, is a continuing imperative. Together we must learn how to compose differences, not with arms, but with intellect and decent purpose. Because this need is so sharp and apparent I confess that I lay down my official responsibilities in this field with a definite sense of disappointment. As one who has witnessed the horror and the lingering sadness of war – as one who knows that another war could utterly destroy this civilization which has been so slowly and painfully built over thousands of years – I wish I could say tonight that a lasting peace is in sight.
Happily, I can say that war has been avoided. Steady progress toward our ultimate goal has been made. But, so much remains to be done. As a private citizen, I shall never cease to do what little I can to help the world advance along that road.
So – in this my last good night to you as your President – I thank you for the many opportunities you have given me for public service in war and peace. I trust that in that service you find some things worthy; as for the rest of it, I know you will find ways to improve performance in the future.
You and I – my fellow citizens – need to be strong in our faith that all nations, under God, will reach the goal of peace with justice. May we be ever unswerving in devotion to principle, confident but humble with power, diligent in pursuit of the Nations' great goals.
To all the peoples of the world, I once more give expression to America's prayerful and continuing aspiration:
We pray that peoples of all faiths, all races, all nations, may have their great human needs satisfied; that those now denied opportunity shall come to enjoy it to the full; that all who yearn for freedom may experience its spiritual blessings; that those who have freedom will understand, also, its heavy responsibilities; that all who are insensitive to the needs of others will learn charity; that the scourges of poverty, disease and ignorance will be made to disappear from the earth, and that, in the goodness of time, all peoples will come to live together in a peace guaranteed by the binding force of mutual respect and love.
Now, on Friday noon, I am to become a private citizen. I am proud to do so. I look forward to it.
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