Rivalry in the Mediterranean, 1945

French North Africa and the Levant

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ID23441128
AuthorsScott L Bills (Stephen F. Austin State University, corresponding author)
Year1990
Pages23-58
Publication date1990-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeCHAPTER
VenueEmpire and Cold War (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherPalgrave Macmillan UK (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1007/978-1-349-20969-9_2
OpenAlexW2484289466
ISBN9781349209699
LanguageEN
References cited12

On 8 November 1945, the Reverend W. S. Boyd of Morgantown, West Virginia, appeared before the House Foreign Affairs Committee to speak in favor of the creation of a Department of Peace. While the hearings were merely scheduled as a courtesy to a long-time colleague, the setting gave Boyd an opportunity to describe his hopes for the post-war order. The United States, he said, remained a young and vital nation: 'In the brief period of our national existence it has already become tradition with us to be imaginative and daring and resourceful in the achievement of the goals we set for ourselves. We have become specialists in the impossible'. Indeed, such resourcefulness would be required to handle the difficult challenges of the coming years. The end of the war, Boyd commented, must be followed by greater gains for the 'little people' of the world. 'Sooner or later, we will have to make good on our promises of freedom and justice and equal opportunity and perpetual peace'. 1 As the Reverend Boyd looked outward, beyond his own hemisphere, toward the little people — the poor, the dispossessed, the colonized — perhaps he realized how intently they were staring back.

Aesthetics · Art · Courtesy · Economic Justice · Period (music) · Political science · Rivalry · Sociology · Staring · African history and culture studies · History · Law · North African History and Literature

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